[stormryder]

Hi guys, is there anyway i can ghost or image a Mac machine like a PC? I just took over support for Mac machine at my company and i would like to have an image of these Mac so i won't have to re-load all the software everytime they have a new user. Thanks in advance for all your input.

[zoombini]

Google for Carbon Copy Cloner. Only works with OS X though.

[saikee]

Have to qualify myself not a Mac user here but I believe Mac uses the same hdd as PC. That leads me to think GNU/Linux should be able to clone a Mac hdd, exactly the way it clones Windows XP, which is pretty well protected.

GNU/Linux does this by reading the native information in 1s and 0s from the source disk and writing them on the target disk. THus even GNU/Linux can't write files on a NTFS partition it can still clone XP and make s it bootable.

The command is dead simple

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

for a device harddisk "a" as input file to be "date dump" to an output file of device hadrdisk "b".

The speed is comparable to Noton Ghost too. It is about 2 to 2.5 hous for a 200Gb. The succes rate is pretty bomb proof if the source and target disks are identical make and size.

One can get a Linux Live CD (runs on a CD without the need to be installed in a hdd) to do the cloning but the speed will be a lot slower than an installed version.