Imagine if all of your cd's were on a hard drive, all of your programs and all of your data. What if you could even make a bootable backup of your computer. Disk Utility can do all of this. It comes standard with any mac install under the utilities folder under applications.
To make a copy or a backup of anything including any disk in your optical drive or even your hard drive simply open disk utilities and create a new image at the top of the window. Enter the name you want to give your image and choose where to save it. If the image is a backup of something it is usually a good idea to use an external hard drive or some other external location. If it is a copy of your favorite game then your system hard drive is just fine. Choose the size of the disk image keeping in mind that the disk image must be large enough to store all of the data you want to back up and the disk image takes up all of the space on your hard drive that you allot for it. as far as the partitions are concerned it is best to use CD/DVD for backing up disks and Hard Disk for backing up hard drives and to use no map for a backup of data. click create and Disk Utility will create your disk image
Once you have created the disk image use the restore button to back up your data to the disk image. when it comes to retrieving your data you can either just open the image to see the files. Or you can use restore again on the drive that needs restoring to restore your lost data
That is it for now, if you have any suggestions for upcoming Tips, Tricks and Hacks just leave them in a comment after this post.
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