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Good morning fellow hackintosh lovers...
Unfortunately I completed my build some weeks ago, then installed Windows and Linux on my other drive and forgot about Lion (because I got a KP after trying to install sound drivers)...
Prior the sound KP I had used "Paragon Backup and Recovery" to make a copy of my Lion partition (compressed because I won't waste 500 GBs worth of 9) inside Win7.
Now I recovered the backup last night and to my surprise when booting, not only I have to use iBoot DVD now (seems like the backup of the EFI whatever loader partition was a disaster, although I don't even know why I backed up that anyway hehe) but Lion won't start at all, so it means the hour of creating the backup, the 16 hours of recovering the backup and the probably 4 hours to get Lion running were straight to the trash.
Now I have to open my PC once again, remove the RAM stick, unplug the second HD and all else and start over (thankfully I created a guide which will be useful)!!!!!
So anyway, I'm trying to act cool because otherwise Imma take my case and kill someone with it...
In the meantime, what have you guys used with success to backup your partitions in case you need to try some new kexts and mess with the system?
Because otherwise how would one act in a situation like this... I mean, what If I have a system running for some time with a bunch of applications and user data and require to upgrade something system-related? The solution can't be "install the OS all over again"!!!
Thanks for your time
Unfortunately I completed my build some weeks ago, then installed Windows and Linux on my other drive and forgot about Lion (because I got a KP after trying to install sound drivers)...
Prior the sound KP I had used "Paragon Backup and Recovery" to make a copy of my Lion partition (compressed because I won't waste 500 GBs worth of 9) inside Win7.
Now I recovered the backup last night and to my surprise when booting, not only I have to use iBoot DVD now (seems like the backup of the EFI whatever loader partition was a disaster, although I don't even know why I backed up that anyway hehe) but Lion won't start at all, so it means the hour of creating the backup, the 16 hours of recovering the backup and the probably 4 hours to get Lion running were straight to the trash.
Now I have to open my PC once again, remove the RAM stick, unplug the second HD and all else and start over (thankfully I created a guide which will be useful)!!!!!
So anyway, I'm trying to act cool because otherwise Imma take my case and kill someone with it...
In the meantime, what have you guys used with success to backup your partitions in case you need to try some new kexts and mess with the system?
Because otherwise how would one act in a situation like this... I mean, what If I have a system running for some time with a bunch of applications and user data and require to upgrade something system-related? The solution can't be "install the OS all over again"!!!
Thanks for your time