[X4U] Re: X4U Digest 4th item, on CCC

[Dorothy Hennings]

Thanks, John B., for your help on CCC and Disk Image.
On Jan 6, 2006, at 5:08 AM, x4u- 
request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:
>
>>> How much smaller in GB or MB will the Disk Image be?
>>>
>> Probably larger, since I don't think it's compressed. For that,  
>> use Disk
>> Utility->Help->Creating a disk image.
>
> I thought maybe disk image would be a lot smaller so I could fit  
> more on the external HD as a backup.
>
>> Can I put the Disk Image back on the same external drive and replace
>> the external drive contents at the same time? (Assuming size is much
>> less).
>>
> Only if you manually erase the external HD before copying the image  
> to the HD.
> CCC won't do that.
>

> I thought there may be a one-step operation so it would go faster  
> and have less chance of my goofing it.
>
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