OS Imaging with Disk Utility

[Bayfisher]

is it reliable to use the 'New Image' function of disk utilities and place it on another hard drive partition that is formatted exFAT for disaster recovery, also is there a way to verify the image is not corrupt ? can the bootable usb installation drive be used to recover ?

 

[totenkopf4]

is it reliable to use the 'New Image' function of disk utilities and place it on another hard drive partition that is formatted exFAT for disaster recovery, also is there a way to verify the image is not corrupt ? can the bootable usb installation drive be used to recover ?

Bayfisher

If you looking for ways to have disaster recovery you should look at both of these products

One is called Carbon Copy Cloner
the other is called Super Duper.

I use CCC and backup the whole drive to another partition on another drive. This way we have a bootable backup - ( need to install chimera to the partitoin to get it to boot up ) which is not part of CCC or SD.

We have an post one CCC that covers this area if you want to read it - seach and you shall find. Would not use fat extension for anything mac.

As to FAT - suggest that if this is Mac you make the partition and volume mac spec same as what your source drive is

 

[Bayfisher]

so use osx to setup and format the partitions, install chimera to that partition and use ccc/sd to place a bootable image there ?

 

[adster01]

so use osx to setup and format the partitions, install chimera to that partition and use ccc/sd to place a bootable image there ?

Setup the partition using Disk Utility, then use CCC to copy the source to the partition, then install Chimera.