What I discovered was there was no way to restore from that previous backup file that was located on the external HD because it was not a choice in the Restore's base archive list, and there was no way to add it to the list directly. I proceeded to do a test consisting of reloading my OS partition (10.10.3), deleting the BOOTCAMP partition, then recreating the BOOTCAMP partition, and reinstalling PBCB v.570. I had previously done a successful backup of my iMac's Bootcamp partition to an external USB HD. I do a lot of testing and restoring of my system.
does it make sense to you that i simply "migrate" my Windows 7 installation from my 2006 machine to my 2012 machine using WinClone and Sysprep and whatever - and to just continue on with my normal windows backup using WinClone by dropping the image onto the Mac Drive? i mean, in this way i think i have a recoverable image of the windows installation and it will get backed up in triplicate (or more) by my normal mac drive backup routine.Running the PBCB v.570 here. given this, is there any reason for me to format this drive as FAT32 unlike all the other drives i am using?Ģ. so in some ways it may be hard to get data to and from the 2006 to the 2012?ġ. this seemed to work fine but i am realizing i may have "another" computer now (the 2006) that is /only/ running windows XP whereas the 2012 will be running OS X and 7. i seem to be using Mac Drive which i think is making my Mac Volumes read and writeable from my Windows Volumes (if i recall correctly).
Somehow this issue has enough acronyms to still be in the dark a bit.Ĭan i ask you this? LACIE seems to imply that i can format (or rather /leave/ the format) as FAT32 and thus make the drive accessible to both MAC OS and WINDOWS. One option you should consider is having two separate Time Machine destinations for your backups, if you choose to stay with Winclone-only strategy.
My recommendation is based on redundancy. You do not want to mix backups from different versions of Windows to the same file system.ĥ. Each Windows version has its own Backup/Restore utility that be used for that specific Windows version. I would recommend using two separate disks, for redundancy.Ĥ. and backup both OSes, as long you have sufficient Disk Space. Yes, you can split the OSX backup drive into two parts based on 2. You can create a FAT partition, and bring up Windows and convert this FAT partition to NTFS via Windows Disk Management, as long as you are careful and do not step on other partitions.ģ. DU support FAT/exFAT/FreeSpace/HFS+ formats. You can verify it from LaCie disk specifications from their website.Ģ. The LaCie can support both HFS+ and NTFS file systems. Sorry for sll the questions but would ZlOVE to understand better.ġ.
I mean, in the end maybe formatting it as all OSX joirnaled snd using winclone to backup boot camp HD install is easiest except for hsving to manually create ghe backups and not having rollback functionality.? Lastly you DO like the idea of using winclone to create any IMAGE that i store as backup on OSX deive and which gets backed up multiple times by mac backup (internal clone, external clone, time machine and offsite backup)? Is there any good reason for me to PARTITION the backup drive with a part of it being /partitioned/ as windows drive so that the Boot Camp Partition was backed up to this windows partition? the lacie external drive install app seems to ask if i want to do this and i got to thinking there may be a more direct way to backup BOOT CAMP than running the WinClone backup manually once in awhile and having this image backed up with the rest of the OS X partition.Īre you saying that lacie may have firmware (?!) in their drives that allows me to /partition/ it would in some special way?ĭon't i already have the ability in DU to format part of the drive NTFS (?) and part OSX ext journaled? or mayne there is more going on here that i don't understand yet?ĪLSO of i so have the bootcamp on a /separate/ drive you are saying that i /could/ also back up windows to this drive that is mostly backing up OSX?Īnd you are saying that restoring from this backup will require using windows restore functionality (in windows 7 but maybe not in xp?)? In the PAST i "just" used WinClone to create a BACKUP of the Boot Camp installation and simply dropped this backup on my OS X desktop which was backed up.
my lacie external drive seemed to give me the option to partition partially as an OS X compatible drive and partially as a windows compatible drive and i got to wondering if there was a more direct way to do this than with WinClone or if perhaps there was a way to let everything communicate without that mac windows app i have been using. This is a partial repost of an earlier post as i continue a bit of a long march to get reset up here.