 | A while ago I asked here how to backup OCLP mschines, and essentially got friendly, but completely unsatisfactory replies: proposed was Time Machine, but with the caveat that it would require the exact same OS and exact same OCLP version to reliably restore — and that is fiddling I cannot engage in — and commercial solutions (but would it not be nice to have a free one). Instead, I opted for something else: booting Linux from a Live USB with persistent storage (and more free space than the Apple machine's internal harddrive) and saving the macOS disk as one huge file, like this (one one line, then "enter"), from within a command line window folder: sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=mymac.disk bs=16M conv=sync oflag=direct status=progress The restore would be, booting again from the same stick: sudo dd of=/dev/sda if=mymac.disk bs=16M conv=sync oflag=direct status=progress (i.e. switch if and of) Hope that helps someone. If you wish a demo, I made even a video that is linked to. [link] [comments] |
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