Chapter 14. Mac OS X Bare-Metal Recovery

While Mac OS X is similar to other flavors of Unix in many ways, the topic of backups is one where the differences stand out. Some of the available tools are the same, but familiar tools may not be the best choices. Also, as with other operating systems described in this part of the book, the methods used to record critical metadata and to boot from the recovered disk differ. Following the format of prior chapters, this chapter will show you how to make a simple and inexpensive backup of a Mac OS X system for use in bare-metal recovery.

This chapter was contributed by Leon Towns-von Stauber. Leon has been using and administering a variety of Unix systems since 1990 and has followed Mac OS X since purchasing a NeXT workstation in 1991.