Shirt Pocket Discussions

Shirt Pocket Discussions (https://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/index.php)
-   General (https://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=6)
-   -   Restoring to an erased internal HD (https://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4859)

mkraft 12-19-2008 07:58 PM

Restoring to an erased internal HD
 
I have to restore (full restore) from an external USB backup drive to my internal Mac drive following a computer repair that erased the hard drive.

(I guess Apple restores the OS and not much of anything else in situations like that?)

Is doing the 'restore' just a matter of running SuperDuper and choosing the Restore tab? One reason I ask is because the section of the SD user guide that deals with restoring continually refers to Firewire drives and the ability of the Mac to restart from a bootable Firewire drive, even though elsewhere it states that backups (including bootable ones) to USB drives are apparently also okay even though FW is always preferred.

Are there any procedural differences in restoring from a USB drive v. a FW drive?

Also, having already downloaded a Firefox update (i.e., since getting my computer back), I assume that to keep it from being overwritten (by the older version of Firefox included in the backup) I should rename it before doing the 'restore'?

Thanks.

dnanian 12-19-2008 08:00 PM

The steps are the same: you start up from the backup and use "Backup - all files" to copy from the backup back to the internal drive.

mkraft 12-20-2008 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnanian (Post 22790)
The steps are the same: you start up from the backup and use "Backup - all files" to copy from the backup back to the internal drive.

Thanks. I'm not sure how to start from the backup. Is it just: hold down 'Option' key during or after restarting, and then there's a menu that allows the user to choose which drive to start from?

Also, does "Backup - all files" mean that anything new on the internal drive will be overwritten? Or is it only files with the same name as those on the backup drive that will be overwritten?

Can the new version of Firefox I now have be prevented from being overwritten just by temporarily renaming it?

In other words, is it possible to selectively preserve some files on the internal drive (other than copying them to a different hard drive, etc.) so that they're not lost when I restore from the external drive?

Thanks again.

dnanian 12-20-2008 04:20 PM

Yes, you hold down Option and select the backup drive, and everything on the internal will be overwritten. Renaming it won't help. You'll have to re-download/reinstall Firefox again. Individual files you could copy to the backup drive before you restore, of course.

mkraft 12-21-2008 01:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnanian (Post 22795)
Yes, you hold down Option and select the backup drive, and everything on the internal will be overwritten. Renaming it won't help. You'll have to re-download/reinstall Firefox again. Individual files you could copy to the backup drive before you restore, of course.

OK thanks again. One last pre-restore question: I've been hesitant to do the restore because I've been finding that when navigating online to web-based portals (i.e., Yahoo! and Google), I'm not seeing https:// in the URL line when I log into my accounts. Instead, I'm seeing just http://.

Any idea what might be causing this and whether I need to worry about it in relation to doing the 'restore'? (Might Apple have tweaked something on my computer while it was with them being repaired?)

dnanian 12-21-2008 07:55 AM

That's not a 'restorable offense'. It sounds like they might be doing the secure login in the field (via a certain type of submission), not necessarily showing it to you on the URL line.

mkraft 12-21-2008 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnanian (Post 22802)
That's not a 'restorable offense'. It sounds like they might be doing the secure login in the field (via a certain type of submission), not necessarily showing it to you on the URL line.

That would be a change from the way things were before I brought my computer in for the repair. Moreover, it's happening both in Firefox and Safari.

Shouldn't I at least be seeing a 'lock' icon in the status bar when I'm signed into my accounts with the mentioned services (Yahoo!, Google, etc.)? I thought that -- and/or the https: a/o/t http: -- was the indicator for determining whether a connection is secure or not.

(By "not a 'restorable offense'" do you mean that even if a 'security-related' issue is involved, it shouldn't have any effect on restoring the internal drive to its prior state from the backup?)

Thanks.

dnanian 12-21-2008 11:32 AM

Well, if you boot from the backup and do the same thing, does it work properly? I just don't quite understand what they could have done to prevent your system from going to a secure site (if it's available) during a 'repair'.

mkraft 12-21-2008 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnanian (Post 22805)
I just don't quite understand what they could have done to prevent your system from going to a secure site (if it's available) during a 'repair'.

Actually, I'm not being prevented from going to any website. I'm just not seeing either https:// on the URL line or a lock icon on the status bar when I'm at those web portal sites (after logging in to one of their services).

At high-level security websites, e.g. banks, I do see the https:// -- but no lock icon. My status bar is completely empty.

Is the 'lock icon' an option that has to be 'turned on' in a browser 'preferences pane'? If not, what would explain not seeing it at websites where it should appear?

Thanks.

dnanian 12-21-2008 03:44 PM

Well, the lock icon in Safari is at the top right side of the main window, not in the status bar. Do you see that, in Safari (as opposed to Firefox)?

mkraft 12-21-2008 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dnanian (Post 22813)
Well, the lock icon in Safari is at the top right side of the main window, not in the status bar. Do you see that, in Safari (as opposed to Firefox)?

I see it in Safari for the 'high-level security' sites but not when I'm logged into one of the portal services.

I don't see any difference booting from the backup drive (boy did that ever take a while), so I guess it probably has nothing to do with the state of my internal hard drive.

Given that, I suppose I should pursue the matter elsewhere.

Thanks for your comments.

dnanian 12-21-2008 08:49 PM

Right, that's what I was trying to get at: I'm not sure you're actually seeing something different than how it's supposed to be...

Steve Kir 12-22-2008 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mkraft (Post 22789)
I have to restore (full restore) from an external USB backup drive to my internal Mac drive following a computer repair that erased the hard drive.

Please tell us if your Restore from an SD clone worked.

Thanks

mkraft 12-22-2008 01:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steve Kir (Post 22826)
Please tell us if your Restore from an SD clone worked.

The Restore is only around 12 hours old, and I'm only now using the computer for the first time since, but so far so good.

Some things about it were a bit unexpected:

1. Although there's a Restore tab, it's apparently not functional in the unregistered version of SD. Yet doesn't it do exactly the same thing that a 'full backup' (i.e., in reverse, from clone to internal HD) does?

2. Following the Restore, I wasn't able to remove the drive icon for the clone drive's boot partition from the Desktop. I took a guess and restarted (w- <Option> key held down) selecting the internal drive as the boot drive. I was then able to remove the clone drive's icon. I don't follow the logic of why that happened, though -- since the booting was already over and done with. Is the boot volume simply not able to be ejected?

Thanks.

dnanian 12-22-2008 01:47 PM

The inability to use the "Restore - all files" script is an oversight in the released version that we've corrected in the next. But, "Backup - all files" is basically the same unless you have a side-by-side Time Machine backup, which you can't do without registering anyway.

And that's right: you can't eject the startup drive.


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:04 PM.

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.9
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.