OS X :: Super Duper To Clone Then Restore An HDD?
May 16, 2009
I want to clone my iMac's internal HDD to an external one, erase the internal one, then restore the clone to it (to solve a Bootcamp partition error).
So in Super Duper, do I want to cope the HDD to a disk image, or to the external HDD?
As I understand it, when I have my back-up ready on my external, I need to reboot with the Leopard installer, open Disk Utility, select Restore, choose the source Disk Image (on my external HDD), then select the internal as the destination.
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Apr 4, 2008
What would be the best way to apply back the clone created by Carbon Copy or Super Duper to Mac Pro
1. Boot from Mac Pro and then restore from the clone, or
2. Boot from the clone and then restore
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Apr 18, 2012
My older MBP is running very slow, and I have tried all the usual ways of making it run quicker - repair permissions, repair disk from Lion recovery partition, remove extraneous files, checking Activity Monitor, etc. etc. Someone suggested reformatting the HD and then restoring from a backup. I have the HD cloned to an external HD with Super Duper, but if I reformat the internal HD and restore from the clone, won't the problems that caused the issue in the first place just be cloned into SD and then restored to the reformatted internal drive, thus defeating the excercise?
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Aug 29, 2009
Gotta give back my MBP to work on Monday and am trying to figure out the best way to clone my entire hard drive to a T so when I buy my new MBP on Tuesday I can just copy eveything over and work on a system like i never had to switch.
I really really need my fonts and programs with serials etc. Will all these copy seamlessly over? Also, how easy is it to copy over. I have never used the program and am weary of losing some of my important files.
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Dec 27, 2010
i've been doing a lot of backups recently and was wondering which is better to use for frequent backups.
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Nov 2, 2009
i'm getting a alarm saying failed to enable ownership on backup drv2 which i have enabled read write and ownership,after when i go back to get info the drive is not ticked off on the ownership,tried locking and unlocking can someone tell me where i am going wrong
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Apr 25, 2009
I just bought a Western Digital 1To drive to back up my iMac, my girlfriend's MacBook, and my other external hardrive on which I put all my videos.
Since I already use Time Machine with an other smaller drive, I would like to use that new 1To drive to be my master bakcup system, with bootable disk image of the two computers. I bought SuperDuper to do all that, but I'm not quite sure how to best use it.
Basically, I'd like to do a total backup of the two computers once a month, as well as back up the files on m multimedia hard drive.
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Jan 5, 2010
I was going to buy Super Duper because i keep hearing about it, but i looked at CCC, but as far as i can tell they do the same things now. Bootable backups, incremental updating, scheduling, etc. Are there any advantages of SD that i'm missing?
And while i'm asking, can these handle bootcamp partitions? as far as i see, they can't.
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Aug 12, 2010
Im gonna use Super Duper for the first time to make a full backup of my system. I wanna know if the full backup option copies the system files of Mac OS X. I just read on the manual that it doesnt. I was hoping it would copy everything.
For example, my OS X is 10.6.4. If I do the full backup will the 6.4 update backup too or when restoring the full backup I will need to update again from 6.2?
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Oct 23, 2009
Is there a way to update a super duper clone that I have on a portable external from my Time machine backups? It would simplify my backup protocol a lot, I travel with a live clone in case my system crashes.
When I'm at home I backup tirelessly to a time machine drive connected to my server. I would love to be able to just dock my portable with my server and be able to update my clone easily.
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Jun 25, 2012
I have a 2010 MBP (OX10.7), and just ordered one of the newly released MB Retina. I will get it sometime in July. All my regular files and settings are both on an external and on sugarsync. If I just needed to restore those to the new MB- it would be no big deal.
Besides the everyday use of a MBP, I am a analytics professional. So, on my MBP, I have lots of programs (usual and unusual), a Mysql database, a Windows 7 partitiion (via parallels) with Office for Win, a few other analytics programs like R, datamining and some of their extensions and GUI interfaces, apple scripts, etc.
It is these that take hours to reinstall and get back to normal.
When I get the new MB Retina can I restore/transfer those as well? Are there any downsides to doing this? Do I use migration assitant? Something better?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Oct 2, 2010
I recently had to wipe my entire hard drive. I made a clone of my Windows 7 partition before doing so, but am now unsure about how to restore it. Is it possible to restore without first installing Win 7 from scratch, i.e., is there any chance I could partition the drive using the Boot Camp utility then simply copy the entire file system over?
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Jul 28, 2009
I have a 15" MacBook Pro 2.0 GHz from a couple of years ago. It has a 75 GB harddrive which I am upgrading to 500 GB. My plan has been to simply clone the drive using the enclosure I purchased. But after reading some posts here, I see I have a few options.
1. I could clone. This sounds the least risky since theoretically I should end up with everything exactly the same. I do wonder about how it clones the files the operating system is using at the time, but I guess I'll just trust it knows what its doing.
2. A fresh install sounds ideal. I have had my laptop for a couple of years, so I imagine a fresh install would do it some good. But what does that mean exactly? Is it basically starting from scratch? Would I have to reinstall everything, not just the OS but also all of my programs, individually? And then transfer all of my data (music, photos, etc) given that I can find it all? That sounds a bit laborious and what if I missed something? Or am I misunderstanding the process?
3. A few months ago I purchased a Time Machine and I have been using it to back up my laptop and my external harddrive. Can I really restore my entire internal harddrive from Time Machine? I'm pretty sure I would have set my Time Machine to back up everything especially since it's a 1 TB drive. Any drawbacks to doing it this way?
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Aug 30, 2010
I have a Macbook running on snow leopard and I wanna upgrade my internal hard drive as it is currently too small. I downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner and cloned my entire hard drive to an EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. Now, I have that new internal hard drive from wester digital. What do I do with it? replace the current internal hard drive with the new harddrive and then how do I get the data from the external hard drive with my cloned data to the fresh western digital? Do I boot first from external hard drive etc? I am not sure what to do now?when I was given the option which hard drive to clone (or which part of the hard drive to clone) there was also the option to clone "Install Disk". I don't need to clone that, right?
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Jun 19, 2009
How long should I be stuck on the screen "calculating space required to restore data"? I've been on this screen for about 20, 30 minutes. The "hash mark wheel" is spinning, but just not seeing anything new. Is this normal? My backed up data is ~100 GB.
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Sep 8, 2014
I have an external hard drive which shows all time machine backups but I cannot restore to an earlier time, restore button blanked out.
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
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Sep 5, 2010
Just bought a new MacBook pro was using a few years old MacBook? How do I clone the hd to the new Mac? Time machine won't help because I have bootcamp on it.
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Sep 19, 2009
I have a Mac Pro with 3 HDs inside. Does anyone know if it is possible to clone each HD to a Ubuntu box over my local network?
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Mar 14, 2010
I have a couple of laptops and i was wandering how i could clone my ibook clamshell hd onto them? I have a firewire 400 to firewire 400 cable but im not sure how i can clone the hd onto them without removing the Hd's.
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May 10, 2007
Lately my powerbook (12") seems UNBEARABLY hot. I use it on my chest/stomach while laying down. While I realize this is probably not ideal for the fan, it has never been this hot before. It is so hot I am breaking out in a sweat, and my small room becomes stifling (due to the door being closed with this heat source). I did send back my battery in the recall, but its not the battery side that is hot. Actually, its probably the coolest area. The hottest is the left side/top left. It seems to only get this hot while using the adapter. When it's running off the battery, it is only a bit warm (as expected). Does this mean my adapter is probably messed up in some way?
and FWIW, my dashboard CPU heat has it at 62C or 144F
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Sep 10, 2010
I had some problems with my 17" MacBook Pro and needed a replacement immediately. The Apple Store didn't have a 17" that met my requirements so I bought a 13" that I plan to give to my wife to replace her 13" non-pro.
So. I'm ordering a 17" over the Internet. When it arrives, I'd love to avoid ALL the configuration that I just went through to get this new 13" setup like my old 17". Is there any way to completely clone the drive in my 13" MBP completely and transfer the data to the new 17" MBP when it arrives?
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Nov 6, 2010
Sorry for this silly question, bit I read a lot of threads where the point is to clone a HD to one another. When doing so, with the applications installed, does it mean that the copy is fully functional, applications are copied and run despite protection codes, etc.. ?? It means that everyone can clone its applications on someone else HD and up and running ?
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Jan 30, 2009
Here is my dilemma I bought a g3 600mhz on ebay for 90 dollars works beautifully updated the memory to 640mb need to change the dvd drive and would like a bigger harddrive however i do not have the restore discs that came with it. I am currently running 10.4.11 tiger and can't afford the full version. How can I just clone the harddrive to the new one???
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Sep 3, 2009
I just bought a new harddisk that is smaller than my old one. It turns out I can't clone the disk if they are different sizes.
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Aug 20, 2010
i hear its possible to make a install emergency disk using a flash drive, i purchased a HP USB 16GB flashdrive v 165w, [URL]
i formated the drive as a Guid Partition, ignored preferences and all the stuff i could find online to see to it that i did it right but no go,
can anyone tell me if this drive is incompatible or which one i should exchange it for?
i tried cloning my original OSX Leopard DVD and i get errors when from both CCC and Super Duper,
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Feb 10, 2012
I am doing a clean install of lion from the recovery HD, is it best to migrate the data back via TM back up, or clone? I don't have any programs that i don't a have disc for, and all i want to migrate is itunes, mail, and pic files etc. I have seen where migrating when you install is better than migrating later, so i want to be sure i have a clean clone, or back up, to migrate from. I also failed to write zero's over SL when i did a clean install for Lion, so it was not so clean. So i guess my question is just, clone, or TM back for migration?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 15, 2012
I have a Core 2 Duo Mini Server (previous generation) running 10.7.4 (client, not server, single disk, no RAID). That system is configured exactly as I want. Can I clone that disk and boot a new i7 MacBook Pro (13" Oct 2011 model). I guess what I'm wondering is whether the system running on the older Core 2 Duo has the bits to support newer hardware in the newer machine... or maybe those item were left out during the install on the old machine because the installer detected that the hardware wasn't present.
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Jun 5, 2014
How does the clone work?
Trying to make an object disappear?
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
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Sep 27, 2006
There was a little leak of a super glue canister in the vicinity of my iBook... A small amount, probably the size of a penny got on my screen. It did the typical super glue thing when it dried; it turned to white hard stuff. You cannot see it that much when the screen is off, but it is noticeable when it is off. I was thinking about that super glue removal liquid; the stuff for unsticking unwanted objects together. Will this work/will it make it worse?
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Oct 31, 2008
Ok I still have my iworks cd from when I bought the MB. Im thinking of getting the MBA tomorrow possibly. without buying a superdrive how could I get iworks onto the MBA. if I brought it with me could they just do it at the store?
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