Backup Solutions For Your Mac or CustoMac

[dospakoras]

Article: Backup Solutions For Your Mac or CustoMac

Please, can you direct me to a guide that might help me install Chimera in a USB cloned Flash drive? I have tried to create a Rescue USB Flash Drive using the MultiBeast 5.2.1, but MultiBeast won't allow me to change destination to install Chimera. After backup I have 10.93 GB free on the USB stick.

What is more important to me is to have a bootable backup. That will possibly allow me to restore from the USB Stick using CCC.

Update:

Forget it now. I have discovered how to change destination with MultiBeast and I now have a bootable backup made with CCC and made bootable with MultiBeast.

Thanks to tonymac and MacMan for all the great tools they have coded and shared with us.

Hi learner,

I´m also attempting to make a CCC bootable backup.

Once you have made the backup bootable with multibeast, will it work by going to System Preferences<Startup Disk, selecting it as the startup disk and restarting, or is some other process required?

I found this brief video guide on the cloning process for a hackintosh, but it does not go into detail on how to boot from the cloned disk: Clone your Hackintosh HDD drive and make it bootable

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

 

[dospakoras]

Article: Backup Solutions For Your Mac or CustoMac

O.K., I was able to successfully make a bootable clone of my SanDisk SSD boot drive onto a Seagate Barracuda 1 TB HD using CCC and then Multibeast to install the Chimera bootloader.
Here are some pictures of the steps incase they are helpful to somebody:

The cloned disk will not boot up by simply going to System Preferences<Startup Disk and selecting it as the startup disk.
I must press F12 when the Gigabyte window appears on startup and then select the cloned disk from the blue menu.
I disconnected the SSD drive to verify that the hackintosh was booting only from the cloned disk.

This technique also worked for making a bootable clone onto an 8gb sandisk USB 2.0 thumbdrive. The response time is a bit slow when booting from it, so I might try on a USB 3.0 thumbdrive, but nevertheless, it could serve as an inexpensive backup solution of the bare bones OSX.

Additionally, I was also able to make a bootable clone onto yet another HD that initially showed the Boot0_ error screen after using the CCC and Multibeast method on it. To do this, I simply booted into my recently cloned Seagate HD, then using Disk Utility, Restored the SSD drive onto the problematic HD. Everything boots up fine now.

 

[wsxcvfre]

Another back up software option that works very well is Econ Technologies Chronosync.

It's not free but it's powerful and worth looking into.

 

[iTimOSX]

Currently my set-up at home is a local Airport Extreme with an external HDD connected for Time Machine back-up's and a backblaze subscription for unlimited cloud back-up's just in case

 

[Abe Frohman]

Having previously used Time Machine (too few options) and Chronosync (too many) I now backup using a combination of Backuplist+ and Arq. Backuplist+ is just a GUI wrapper for Rsync but it allows me to backup locally to an encrypted sparseimage on my Drobo. For offsite backups I use Arq which is a fantastic app that provides pre-encrypted backups to your choice of numerous online storage solutions. I backup over 30GB to Amazon S3 using Arq and it costs me roughly .75¢ a month.

 

[protechtedd]

Wishing for a Nandroid-type backup solution

I make regular CCC backups of my drive often, but still I (more than comfortably) run into issues that make my system unbootable, or I need to boot into another OSX for (diskwarrior, etc).

I really wish that there was some type of Backup/Restore feature that was like the Nandroid Restore partition on Android devices. This means, you can reboot into a little partition that has just the tools you need to backup, restore, repair permissions, browse file directory, delete, move, etc, and generally be the hub for all administrative tools on your hackintosh.

Can someone please make this? Or does it already exist and I haven't found it yet?

 

[andomar]

Using an easy two-tier solution which doesn't need deep knowledge of complicated configuration-stuff:

1. Time Machine for the automatic continous backup (to an upgraded 3TB TimeCapsule).
2. Once a month I remove the SSD and harddisk and clone them with a hardware-disk-cloner to another set of disks. Then these fresh cloned copies goes back in my hackintosh so I can be sure that they work! The removed disk-set is then stored as backup at an outside location.

It's all plug and play! Only one restriction: during disk-cloning you can't work with your computer. My 256GB System-SSD needs about 30 Minutes. The 3TB cloning runs over night (about 6 hours).

 

[chrinist]

Hey all, does anyone have any updates on what the perfect method of backing up my Mac is for El Capitan? This guide was written back in 2012. I didn't know if anything has changed since then or not?

I have used Time Machine before and I own Carbon Copy as well. Which one are people using now for El Capitan? I just want to make sure my pics and music is saved in case my HDD ever crashed on my Hackintosh.

 

[defconXC]

Wow, i always thought i had a decent backup strategy but compared to you guys its nothing.

I use a MBA 11"and have my files mixed on the internal, an USB3 drive via a HUB (pictures) and on google drive, one drive and dropbox. I connect my Time Machine drive probs 1 per week and do a backup of my internal SSD and the connected USB 3 with all the pictures. Thats it.

Are you all working with your data or why do you use so many backup strategies? I work in medicine and i don't really need anything else than my knowledge, hands and eyes.

 

[audiocadet]

Hi everyone, I'm having serious problems recovering my data in my custoMac. My graphics card died and after getting a new one, my custoMac freezes at the apple loading page. I'm using OS Mountain Lion and I wish to upgrade to the latest OS and recover my data. I really hope you guys can help me out with this!