Backup MAC - SuperDuper to MSS Tutorial

vladgur · **Posted:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 11:00 am

I think in this situation it would be best to copy the image created by superduper from MSS to a mac or fat formatted usb drive, insert OSX install disk and proceed to Disk Utility and restore that image from USB.
I dont think you are able to map network shares during the install , so getting an image from external drive is the only option. Good thing MSS has an USB front upfront

gecko6375 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 22, 2009 1:13 pm

I apologize if I missed this but, I just want to make sure of something. I currently back up both my MBP and my iMac with Time Machine to an external drive connected to the iMac. I thought I was waiting for the HP update so I could do the Time Machine backups through my WHS but now I am trying to decide if I should also be doing this or only doing this method and forgo Time Machine altogether. Any advice? I am really looking for the best way to recover if I have HD failure. Thanks.

gmckay · **Posted:** Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:42 am

Hey Scott, Great Post

But how are you creating an Image directly to MSS? Are you creating the Image Locally first. The manual seem to suggest that you have to create an Image first because SuperDuper cannot write directly to a Network Drive. I think Im Missing something, hehehe

Thanks

gmckay · **Posted:** Fri Mar 27, 2009 10:39 am

Oops... Hey Scott, Never Mind. I figured it out.

I was not seeing the expanded Dialog Save box on my iMac so I thought I was missing a step, when I just needed to click the little "Blue Triangle" to see MSS Folders.

Great Post Man, Thanks for taking the Time, you Rock! :TR4M:

dpc · **Posted:** Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:02 am

revengineer wrote:

You do not need disk utility for that. You need to turn in windows file sharing in the system preferences. Then you can mount the share by pressing command+k in the finder and entering smb://server as your share. This works 100%.

Is this possible (connecting to a network share) when recovering Mac OS X from the installation DVD on the target? That was the question... and apparently, connecting to a network shared to restore a disk is not supported from the OS X installer DVD.

The steps to recover over the network, for example from a crashed hard disk:
1) Re-install OS X
2) Restore from Time Machine (and/or disk image) from the network share

Many of us were hoping to avoid re-installing the OS in the outlined scenario, which would seem to be the point of using something SuperDuper over and above Time Machine... If you cannot connect to a network drive during the installer, then it is difficult to understand what using Super Duper to image disks buys you over Time Machine support.

jmpage2 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:43 pm

Does anyone have any input for helping me fix this, as I followed the steps outlined and am still getting a login/password challenge to the MSS share and then a failure with Super Duper

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ScottLucky13 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:38 pm

jmpage2 wrote:

Does anyone have any input for helping me fix this, as I followed the steps outlined and am still getting a login/password challenge to the MSS share and then a failure with Super Duper

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The only thing i can think of is the username/password doesn't match on the Mac and Server. Also check the permissions on the folder. One thing you can try is deleting the user on the server and entering it again. Sorry i didn't see this before. During my process in trying to get this to work i ran into the same problems.

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