Protect your data from losing by Imaging your Mac disk

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You might be afraid of losing your vital data (personal and confidential data) during upgradation. Imaging or cloning are two reliable technology to ensure your data protection.

Although Macs are the securest operating system against virus attack and similar vulnerabilities but, we often face situations where Mac is susceptible towards failures and corruptions, that leading to data loss. So, you can't avoid such failures or situations but can be on safer side by backing it up.

Lets discuss about Imaging process:

Imaging is a process of creating an exact copy of drive on some other drive. So, it ensures data security from losing and enables you to restore whenever required.

Imaging refers to a replication process that creates a exact copy of your drive or volume.

Now, lets concentrate on how to create image of your Mac drive and respected volumes using inbuilt Mac OS X free Disk Utility located in (Applications-> Utilities folder). Disk Utility application enables you to create image (.dmg) file of your Mac OS X drive by which you can restore your Mac and specific volumes.

It is easy to use application, in which user just need to drag and drop his source and the destination drive under Restore tab from the left-pane of disk utility interface into its respective boxes in the right-pane. Moreover, when needed users can restore this image file to regain their data using Disk utility.

 

Disk utility is great tool of Mac but it can't create clone of your drive. But, there is another free Mac backup inbuilt utility available in your Mac that is 'Time machine'. Backing up your data is important to maintain your data availability and maintenance but backup using TM can't give you bootable backup.

In my coming blog I am going to explain cloning in detail and applications that performs both cloning and imaging.