Hi folks,
I found this tip on Mac OSX hints:
10.5: Make a bootable Time Machine backup drive
Mac OSX Hints 24/01/2008 at 15:30
Early on after Leopard was released, I followed this tip on how to
make a small partition on my Time Machine (TM) drive and clone a copy
of my install DVD to it. The point here was to have faster access to
the restore feature of TM, without the need to locate and boot from
your install DVD. This worked well, but I've since discovered an even
simpler method which does not necessitate the need to partition the TM
drive.
Starting with a clean, newly-formatted TM drive, use Disk Utility and
do a restore (source: Install DVD; Destination: TM drive). Once the
restore has completed, you'll have a bootable TM drive which can be
selected on startup by pressing and holding the Option key down. All
that's left is to go into TM's preferences and select this drive for
your TM backups.
Simple, quick, and works l...
Enjoy and hope this helps someone
James
