[G4] Re: Carbon Copy Cloner

[Richard Ramsowr]

Dave

Based upon my recent encounters I would tell any and
all to try using AppleÕs own Disk Utility/Restore
first before branching out into work of third party
software and I would also tell folks to stay away from
CCC! Restore works and works well - at the rtime I was
using OS X [10.3.9]

Rich
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--- Dave March <dkmnow at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I used the free version of SuperDuper to clone my
> OS,
> and I've been running on the clone for a month with
> no
> problems.  Same deal -- just wiped the target
> volume,
> did a straight bootable clone, and put the original
> drive away for safe-keeping.  If you want to unlock
> incremental backups, synchronizing, etc., you have
> to
> pay the shareware fee.  But the freebie done me
> good. 
> Now to find a comparable app for the old peecee...
> 
> --DKM
> 
> 
> 
> --- "Richard M. Kriss" <rmkriss at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > Nate,
> > 
> > Why are you messing with an image file?  I used
> CCC
> > for a long time and
> > never fooled around with an image file.  The steps
> I
> > used that always worked
> > was to first erase or partition the target drive
> and
> > make it bootable. Let
> > CCC do its thing and you will have a clone that
> > should boot.
> > 
> > The only issue with CCC is it does not support
> > incremental backup and takes
> > a long time to clone anything.
> > 
> > Dick
> > 
> > 
> > > Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:48:15 +0000
> > > From: nagable at comcast.net
> > > 
> > > Hi Richard,
> > > 
> > > I just did a successful clone of MY 40 GB hard
> > drive to a 200 GB hard drive
> > > over the weekend.  It works fine.  Here are the
> > steps I used:
> > > 
> > > First, make a disk image of the 40GB hard drive
> > onto the new drive. (But why
> > > did you only get a 60GB drive?)
> > > 
> > > Next, expand the .dmg file--it will appear onto
> > the desktop.
> > > 
> > > Then clone the expanded image onto the new
> drive. 
> > Be sure the CCC preferences
> > > are set to "make bootable".
> > > 
> > > I tried cloning directly from the 40GB (my
> startup
> > disk) to the new drive, but
> > > it didn't work.
> > > 
> > > What concerns me is that you may not have enough
> > room on the 60GB disk for the
> > > disk image and the clone.
> > > 
> > > Good luck.
> > > 
> > > Nate
> > 
> 
> 
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