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Restoring from a disk image |
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Manually restoring individual files and folders
You can access the contents of a disk image the same way that you access other volumes and external hard drives on Mac OS X. Double-click on the disk image file to mount its filesystem, then navigate the filesystem in the Finder to access individual files and folders. If you have the permission to access the files that you would like to restore, simply drag those items to the volume that you would like to restore them to.
Restoring individual items or an entire disk image to another hard drive using CCC
While you cannot boot Mac OS X from a disk image directly, you can restore the disk image to a volume. When you use CCC to restore the disk image to a volume, the resulting restored volume will be bootable (assuming that you had initially backed up a bootable system). To restore files or an entire filesystem from a disk image:
- Launch CCC
- Select "Restore from disk image" from the Source Disk popup menu and locate your backup disk image. CCC will mount the disk image for you.
- Choose a volume from the Target Disk popup menu †
- Choose the "Incremental backup of selected items" cloning method if you would like to restore selected items, or the "Backup everything" cloning method if you do not want to selectively restore data.
- Click the Clone button.
† Note that restoring system files on the startup disk is a potentially dangerous task, so CCC does not offer the startup disk as a choice in the Target Disk popup menu.
Restoring data to your startup disk
If you want to selectively restore data to your startup disk, you must start up your Macintosh from an installation of Mac OS X on another hard drive. If you do not have an installation of Mac OS X on another hard drive, you can boot from your Mac OS X Installer DVD and use Disk Utility to restore the entire disk image:
- Reboot your computer from the Mac OS X Installer DVD
- After the Installer application loads, choose "Disk Utility" from the Utilities menu
- From the File menu, choose "Open Disk Image..." and locate the disk image that you would like to restore
- In the list in the pane on the left, click on the mounted disk image's volume
- Click on the "Restore" tab on the right side of the window
- Drag the mounted disk image to the Source field. Leopard users: If the Source field does not accept the dragged volume, right-click on the disk image's mounted volume and choose "Set as source" from the contextual menu.
- Drag the hard drive that you would like to restore to into the "Destination" field
- Check the box to erase the destination, then click on the Restore button.