[X4U] Backing up with Disk Utility

Kevin Willis res19rmg at verizon.net
Tue May 17 18:34:46 PDT 2005


On May 17, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Randy B.Singer wrote:
>
> The Restore tab in Apple's Disk Utility works almost exactly like  
> Carbon
> Copy Cloner.  It makes an exact bootable clone of your disk.  The only
> options are to erase, or to leave alone the data on the destination  
> disk,
> and to do a checksum integrity test of the data being copied.
>
> However, this feature does not offer syncronization of files, to  
> update
> your clone. (As CCC does with PSYNC.)
>
> Note that the fields in Restore can be dragged and dropped into.
>
>
>
> Randy B. Singer
> Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)
>
> Routine OS X Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting
> http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
>

That's what I did.  Now I guess I need to remember to copy my music,  
picture, and movie folders over to it from time to time.

Thanks,

Kevin




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