When to use which utility for what purpose?įor backups it may be vitally important to store the data read-only because this will prevent the data from being (unintentionally) manipulated.

We turned “mkisofs” into a general purpose solution which allows archiving Mac, Windows, and UNIX specific files with their attributes into UDF disk images which can easily be mounted by Mac and Windows users.”. Helmut Tschemernjak, president and founder of HELIOS Software notes: “Today's growing disk capacities and inexpensive external disk systems allow storing read-only archives quickly on disk instead of burning media or using proprietary tape formats. HELIOS added support to archive hundreds of thousands of files/folders into disk images without any size limitations. The free public domain disk image utility “mkisofs” received major enhancements by HELIOS Software engineers, to enable flexible disk image creation for archiving and backup tasks going way beyond DVD image creation. HELIOS “mkisofs” – the ultimate UDF disk image backup utility

Mac raw disk image creator