Create Disk Images???

[PSRebeck1965]

I am new to Mac, and we now have 25 in the school I work at. I have been told that Mac OS X Tiger has a program built in to create a hard drive image for disaster recovery. I am unable to find anything regarding this.

does such an application exist? or do I need to go 3rd party?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[jmgalvin]

Hard drive/applications/utilities/disk utility. When that's launched you can read its Help for full info, and you really should because it does a lot.

If you're responsible for the computers, you should also explore all the other utilities as they can be quite useful depending on compouter use. Some of these utilities are called by others. For instance printer setup utility is called by system prefs/print&fax.

There is A LOT of stuff on your hard drives besides the obvious. It takes some time to become familiar with everything but it's worthwhile to do so.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4 & G5

 

[kindian]

I would recommend both of the following programs (free or low cost):

SuperDuper

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

Carbon Copy Cloner

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

They both make exact copies of your hard drive. I keep a SuperDuper copy of my drive updated all the time. In case of drive failure, I just swap in the backup drive.