[X4U] Backing up with Disk Utility

[John Baltutis]

On 05/17/05, Kevin Willis <res19rmg at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> If you use Disk Utility to create a disk image of your start up
> drive, will it be a bootable back up?

No. You need something like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!, both of
which make bootable clones. AFAIK, you need something like BootCD to make
bootable CDs. IIRC, no disk image is bootable.

> Also, would I need to save it
> in a compressed format, or does it need to be read/write?

Doesn't matter.