Create Mac Disk image using Disk utility

I think I don't need to define disk utility and its features to any Mac user. Sometimes people confuse whether to create clone or image for their Mac drive or volumes. So, they just need to clear their concept that both clone and image are meant to backup. From the user's point of view, the only difference is clone are bootable while images are not.

So, creating image is also a way to store files in a Mac. Creating Image using Disk Utility gives you a compressed and encrypted image. So, in order to save your data from unauthorized access, one should create image of their startup drive.

Although it has so many advantages, but images are not bootable.

Before we move further, you should know why it is essential to create image(backup) of drive. And then we will concentrate on the methods of creating image using Disk utility.

No matter which hard drive you are using, its quality or manufacturer, as no one would take responsibility to protects your data from any mishappening.

These are steps of creating Mac disk Image Using Disk Utility:

• Launch Disk Utility application. Located in Applications -­-> Utilities.

• Go to the File menu, and select New -­-> Disk Image.
• Select the volume or drive you want to create image. Then click the Image button shown below in screen.
• Give some name to your new disc image. Then from the Image Format menu, select Compressed(image creaed in compressed form).
• Once your disc image is created, it will appear in left pane in the Disk Utility application. After click once on the image. From the Images menu, select 'Scan image' for Restore.
• If you want to restore a disc image, click once on the image in the left pane of Disk utility. Click to select the Restore tab. Drag the image file from the left pane to the Source location. Drag the particular partition or volume you want to restore to from the left pane to your designated Destination location. Check both the Erase Destination and Skip Checksum checkboxes. Click the Restore button.

I had gone through all these steps, that my friend sent me for my help in this matter, and I succussfully created my first Mac disk image easily. But, as I wanted to create bootable disk so, he advised me to use a third party tool. As per his suggestion, I bought Stellar clone drive which is able to make bootable clone of recovery HD also. I am very thankful to him for his great suggestion for using Stellar drive clone, and it really works superbly. Now I love this software only because it doesn't need any technical expertise, it just works.