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10.3: Image, clone, and restore drives with Disk Utility
Authored by: bussdriver on Nov 04, '03 01:23:26PM

I've tried it but I had problems. I did nothing special, just copied the drive to a firewire drive. (well another mac in target disk mode)

It worked; however, the permissions were all wrong; the machine would not boot. I used the panther install CD and after 2? hours of fixing permissions for every single file it worked just fine.

Also note, that ditto changed, and that is why many utils out there do not work with panther. check out ditto! It does zip archiving --probably what the finder uses!
ditto --rsrc SourceFolder TargetFolder

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10.3: Image, clone, and restore drives with Disk Utility
Authored by: seann on Nov 04, '03 03:53:14PM

copy the drive to a .dmg file first

that preserves permissions



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10.3: Image, clone, and restore drives with Disk Utility
Authored by: nicola on Nov 04, '03 04:07:28PM

Just a guess, but... you probably forgot to tell the system *not* to ignore permissions for the firewire volume before using asr.
You can find this setting in the volume's get-info window (select the volume, then command-i), and looking for the check box in the "permissions" section.



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10.3: Image, clone, and restore drives with Disk Utility
Authored by: bussdriver on Nov 04, '03 10:48:10PM

Yes, I did.
for some reason it did it. I just tried it again. I know its off, now I run it, and it turned it on! ?

So for some reason disk util is setting it to ignore permissions....
its got to be a bug.... I've got 2 partitions, perhaps that is part of it, and why others says it works. but for me it never does.

I also tried it from source and dest disks and then picking restore and it STILL does it to me! And I played around with the other partition and it still does it to me!

So, now I tried asr the command line tool that disk util uses. Now it works just fine. So somehow the ignore permissions keeps being turned on by diskutil but asr does not do this, and so it works....

any ideas why diskutil does not work for me but asr does?

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