Backing up just the basic system

[MamaMoose]

I have a very full boot drive with all sorts of stuff that does not impact system operation. What I want to do is back up just the basic system items including all components that are critical to the system. And I want the system to be bootable.

Is this asking too much? How do I go about doing this? I used to have Retrospect but abandoned it in favor of SuperDuper! for all my complete backups.

What I am trying to so is build a bootable stripped down basic system for a high capacity flash drive and to use it as my portable maintenance and repair device. I plan to have DiskWarrior, TechTool Pro and iPartition also on the drive. I estimate adrive with a capacity of 20 - 30 GB will suffice.

Thanks for any ideas,

MamaMoose

[chriskleeman]

Tom, if you search the 2007 Forum Archives ( I used "flash drive" as the search subject) this post from Harv comes up:

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In case you missed it (or care)...

Mac troubleshooter Ted Landau posted a Web page on his blog that describes how to make a boot drive from a 1GB (minimum) flash (or thumb) drive.

Repair/recovery applications can be added to make the flash drive an indispensable all-around troubleshooting/fixing tool.

The fairly simple steps are located Here.

And he includes links, which wouldn't translate with the copy and paste of his thread.


HTH,

Chris K

[Paddy]

Ted Landau's instructions:

http://www.tedlandau.com/books/helpline/Bootable_drive.html

[Xairbusdriver]

Be aware that you probably won't be able to boot from the flash drive on your G5 system. I think only intel models can do that. And that is a pretty high capacity flash drive!