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Hi,
I have been looking for methods to FULLY backup my primary hackintosh drive (running 10.11), including the clover EFI partition.
I have combed through the tonymac site, and have seen you can use timemachine, CCC, or super duper, to backup the system disk, but not the EFI partition?
If making "incremental" backups was not an issue for me, couldn't I just clone the entire disk, using dd in terminal?
After running "diskutil list". I see all the necessary partitions are under the disk0 partition.
EFI - disk0s1
apple hfs - disk0s2
apple boot - disk0s3
if I were to run dd, for the entire disk 0...
I.e. "sudo dd if=/dev/disk0 of=/dev/disk1 bs=128m conv=noerror,sync"
Wouldn't that copy my clover EFI boot partition in addition to my OSX drive? Is there anything wrong with doing this?
If I were to go this route, do I need to unmount the system drive to copy it properly?
Thanks
I have been looking for methods to FULLY backup my primary hackintosh drive (running 10.11), including the clover EFI partition.
I have combed through the tonymac site, and have seen you can use timemachine, CCC, or super duper, to backup the system disk, but not the EFI partition?
If making "incremental" backups was not an issue for me, couldn't I just clone the entire disk, using dd in terminal?
After running "diskutil list". I see all the necessary partitions are under the disk0 partition.
EFI - disk0s1
apple hfs - disk0s2
apple boot - disk0s3
if I were to run dd, for the entire disk 0...
I.e. "sudo dd if=/dev/disk0 of=/dev/disk1 bs=128m conv=noerror,sync"
Wouldn't that copy my clover EFI boot partition in addition to my OSX drive? Is there anything wrong with doing this?
If I were to go this route, do I need to unmount the system drive to copy it properly?
Thanks