Using ddrescue with Mac OS X and external drive
I have a 500 gb Fantom firewire drive and a MacBook Pro running OS X. I'd like to boot from a Linux CD and create several different images of the Mac HD on the Fantom drive. I've tried using dd and ddrescue, but keep getting a variety of error messages. Summarizing them,
1. /dev/sdb2/MacImage1 is not a directory 2. /dev/sdb2/MacImage1 is a directory 3. The external hard drive is read-only 4. I don't have write privileges to the drive. I've tried a variety of syntax. Here's one example: ddrescue -v /dev/sda /dev/sdb2/MacImage1 MacImage1.log I also installed hfsplus, the Linux driver for the Mac filesystem. That didn't work either. I've spent quite a few hours banging my head against this, so I'd appreciate it if someone could give me a simple answer that tells me I should have posted here days ago! :D Thanks. - Tony Lima |
I used carbon copy cloner to backup os x to a partition on my firewire/usb drive. I divided up the drive into mac partitions and told ccc to erase the destination partition first.
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html I have used a os x utility called asr which works also. From my notes: Code:
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Your other suggestions have given me some new things to try. Thanks! - Tony |
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