I've tried using the Leopard-appropriate version of CCC twice now for making a mirror of my MacBook Pro. The data is saved, yet the drive it's saved to is not bootable. I'm working with a friend who's used CCC with Tiger successfully in past. Are there any special tricks for getting CCC to make a bootable copy from a Leopard computer? The external drive I'm using is a LaCie d2 quadra, btw.
View 7 RepliesI have an external hard drive with lots of media files, and now I backed this up to an identical external hard drive. I wanted to use Carbon Copy Cloner to mirror any changes made in the original hard drive, but I have now tried this for the first time, after having moved some files around. Now instead of moving those files on the other hard drive, CCC just copied these files from the original hard drive, something that takes much longer. Is there any program that could do this more intelligently? (moving files on the backup drive instead of copying them over from the original drive again?)
View 4 Replies View Relatedi will get my new 500GB seagate drive in the mail i was just wondering if i should fresh install. or just go for the standard CCC. doing a fresh install would take hours because i would need to install tiger the upgrade to leopard, then software update. then copy all the info from my old drive
View 3 Replies View RelatedWould appreciate some help in trying to restore a copy of Leopard created using Carbon Copy Cloner. I created a bootable backup of Leopard, as I am installing Snow Leopard. I checked that the bootable backup I took of Leopard works and then installed Snow Leopard. Not really happy with the Snow Leopard at the moment and so decided to go back to my original Leopard as this worked faster and without issues. The thing is, I cannot work out how to restore my backup from my external drive to my Macbook. All I can see in the backup location are the main folders, like Applications, Library, System & Users. Is it just a case of copying over the original backed up folders into the main "Macintosh HD" folder and overwrite the new ones there following the install of Snow Leopard?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to clone a new imac running leopard to an old g4 running panther.
They only have 2 different versions, one that will run on leopard and one for panther.
I've set it up and everything but it says "the bootability of the target volume cannot be determined."
Do you think trying to clone to panther using the leopard ccc version will mess it up?
I'm having a screen issue with a MacBook Pro that's running Leopard (screen is black). An external screen won't work with it in its current state. I need to bring it in for repair -- about 7 days! So I want to mirror it to an external drive before then -- against loss of data, etc. Using the Carbon Copy Cloner version for Leopard and target disk mode, I slaved it to a computer running Tiger and made what ought to be a mirror. The data's there, yet I can't boot the drive from a computer running Tiger.* That might be b/c
1) a drive w/ Leopard OS can't be booted through a computer running Tiger (unlikely, I think)
2) CCC won't enable me to make a bootable drive if I'm mirroring the Leopard OS using Tiger
3) something else.
I just did a clean install of Snow Leopard on my older macbook. I did not specifically back up my itunes purchases, however, I did do several Time Machine back ups as well as manually moving data via Finder (copy "Macintosh HD" and paste to folder on external), and finally a clone using CarbonCopyCloner. I wanted to start fresh, but I failed to think of my iTunes purchases, as well as iPhone app purchases/downloads. Is there some way I can specifically restore iTunes from the back up without having to restore from a TimeMachine backup?
View 2 Replies View RelatedOn my new MBP I fired and set-up the system, and SL was already installed.
I followed the procedure of cloning my Leopard HD on to a local back-up drive, using CCC, plugged it in to the MBP and booted from the clone.It has booted up without any noticeable issues but when I go to open Disk Utility, or any other program on the cloned disk, I get the '...application X quit unexpectedly' dialogue box
I've been using CCC preferentially over time machine in 10.5 to do my backups, and I just ordered my 10.6 disc. Problem is, I don't know if CCC works on Snow Leopard. Has anybody tried it on any of the developer releases/etc?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI use superduper and it works fine but I always see articles about bootable clones seem to mention carbon copy cloner instead.
View 13 Replies View Relatedspeeding up my iMac 2007 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, at least until the new iMacs come out very soon. Here's my situation. My Time Capsule recently filled up, necessitating purchase of a LaCie 2 TB external storage device. I've only used it for regular Time Machine backups since I took it out of the box yesterday, but would love to (if possible) use this puppy for all it's worth...perhaps taking some of the storage strain off my iMac, which currently has L2 Cache of 4MB and Memory of just 2GB. Gah, I know. And a wee 800 MHz processor. So what can I do to help speed this baby up? A friend mentioned Carbon Copy, but what do I do? I realize my new LaCie could eat my iMac's storage for lunch, but I don't want to mess anything up. Where do I start? Do I move photos over? Create partitions? Transfer everything over and start from scratch, slowly adding things back to my iMac, bit by bit?It's Sunday late afternoon here...would like to start Monday rarin' to go with a blazing-fast computer.
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iMac 20, Mac OS X (10.7.1), Time Capsule, AirPort Express
Is it possible to rename my backup HD (using Carbon Copy Clone) without recloning the main HD?
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy Mac Mini is running very slow and its not a RAM problem. But testing iDefrag showed the hard drive needs a defrag. I back up to Carbon Copy Cloner. Would booting to CCC on my external drive, erasing the hard drive through Utilities and then copying the CCC disk image back to the hard drive resolve the problem or just repeat it?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhat 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
I just got a new macbook pro with a larger hard drive! I used time machine to restore all my sytem settings etc from my old macbook, but it didnt have all my videos and music etc because the hdd was too small. I used ccc to clone my hdd every once in a while to save all my videos. I now want to restore everything on my mbp that I couldnt keep on my macbook because of the size. How can I do that with my ccc clone? I choose the ext hdd for the source but then my macintosh hdd doesnt show up in the target?
View 2 Replies View RelatedExternal hard drive FreeAgent Pro 750GB with Firewire 400 Mac Mini OS X 10.5.6 120GB 2GB ramCreated a MAC HD image on FreeAgent Pro 750 gb external drive but did not make it bootable.Now I cannot restore from the external drive where the macHD.dmg is stored.I believe I should have made the Image bootabe on the external drive ,but too late.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm not very happy with TM so I want to try CCC to clone only my home folder. When I launch CCC, I select my Snow Leopard disk as a source but I'm not able to select just one folder to backup
View 1 Replies View RelatedI had 2 HD's in my Power Mac G5 one with the OS etc on, the other empty. The second is a 250GB, the first a 60GB. I therefore downloaded and ran Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the first onto the second. I ran it yesterday and all seemed fine. All the OS and file structure (and its contents) copied fine. I then restarted the machine by selecting the 250GB disk through startup disk. I then was greeted by a No Entry icon instead of the apple at startup.
I've Restarted off the OS disk (10.5) and ran Disk Utility and Verified and checked all the permissions (which takes an age). Again all seems fine. But then it wont restart! The first smaller harddrive also now has a locked icon on it and will not boot. When I perform the Permissions Verfiy on this drive it give the error "The underlying task reported failure on exit".
I'm about to partition my WD passport into two section . It's 120 gigs and I'm going to use 100 gigs to back up all by media on my mac (pictures music video) and then I'd like to have a 20 gig section for extra flexible storage/transporting files from computer to computer, including PCs. So carbon copy cloner says the drive has to be formatted to HFS+ but in disc utility I don't see HFS+ under partition/format. also for the smaller partition what would be the best format for what I described above?
View 7 Replies View RelatedAs of today, I upgraded my iMac (and eventually my Macbook) to Snow Leopard. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to create a clone of my drive to my external (I did a clean install) and now that Snow Leopard is installed, I only want to put back on to my computer just certain files, such as a select selection of my documents, some of my iTunes library, etc. Given that I couldn't find that option in Migration Assistant, I just manually copied over what I wanted from the clone on my external. Still, I would like to keep a daily backup for my iMac's HD and that's where Time Machine comes in, but there's some questions I have before I do it: Given that my iMac's HD now has significant free space (as I only brought back, say, 10% of the stuff to my iMac from my external when I cloned on CCC), if I enabled Time Machine to back up my iMac's HD stuff, it wouldn't overwrite the 90% of stuff on my external with the 10% that's on my iMac's HD, would it?
For instance, I have about 20,000 songs on my external drive, but maybe have brought back only, say, 5,000 to my iMac (for now). Given that my iMac's iTunes Music folder shows 5,000 songs on it, when TM backs that up to my external drive, it won't overwrite the other iTunes Music folder which has the other 15,000, right? The same thing could be applied for documents, photos, etc. If not, how would TM deal with that? I would hope to avoid the other extreme, which are duplicate files/folders. I guess I just want to be able to have the ability to get into that cloned drive on my external if I need to add more stuff to the iMac or if I need it one day to boot up the machine. But I also want to be able to have Time Machine at hand to back up daily the little that is on my iMac right now. So I suppose I'm wondering how can I achieve this without the two conflicting or screwing up?
"You may have difficulty booting from this target volume, the underlying disk is not formatted with a partitioning scheme that Apple recommends for Intel Macs. See the "Getting Started with CCC" section of the CCC documentation for more information." My hard drive has three partitions: 1 time machine, 1 ccc (HFS+ journaled), 1 FAT drive.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have two external drives I use. One as a primary, and one as a back up. I back up with Carbon Copy Cloner now (super duper was soooo slow) and it works like a charm. Except when I right click and get info on both drives, they are different sizes (by 6GB), yet when I do list view and see the calculated sizes, they are the same! And yes, the trash is empty!
View 1 Replies View RelatedI bought a Retina Macbook a couple of days ago, and rather than migrating with Setup/Migration Assistant from my old MBP (2.26GHz, running 10.7.4), I wanted to start fresh & manually migrate the stuff I want to keep for the new machine. My intention is to wipe the old MBP with a fresh Lion install for my wife. As a precaution (in case I forget something crucial) I made a Carbon Copy clone of the old HD, saved onto a 2TB Seagate Backup Plus external drive. The Seagate is USB3, with optional adapters for Firewire and Thunderbolt.
I formatted the drive & setup 2 partitions, both MAC OS Extended (Journaled), GUID partition, one for the clone, the second for general storage, and the clone process went smoothly. I checked that I was able to boot from the clone on the old MBP, with no problems. However, when I attempt to boot the clone on the Retina MBP, I get the grey screen & no entry sign. Same if I try through system prefs, startup disk. Why the clone will boot onto the old MBP, but not the Retina?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I have a backup of my mac on CCC and I just got it back from getting the hard drive replaced and when I try to boot from the backup I get a kernal panic but when I open it in Mac OS X all the files are there
View 24 Replies View RelatedI read somewhere that it's a good idea to use Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) together with Time Machine, but I've been unable to figure out how to do this. Other posts related to the subject discuss using one Time Machine backup drive and another drive having CCC used to back up, but that's impractical for me. It would be great to have a bootable external Time Machine backup drive. Is this possible, and if yes -how do I proceed?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to dual boot my ibook G4, 512MB RAM 1.33GHz processor with OS X and Debian Linux. I only have a 40GB hard drive, and was wondering that if I partitioned the hard drive, will the smaller sized OSX volume make a difference with the image created by the carbon copy cloner?
View 1 Replies View RelatedCCC kinda went on the fritz for me tonight. About 80% of the way through my scheduled backup task, I noticed my backup drive wasn't even connected. Also, about 40 GB had been copied, whereas a typical backup usually backs up only a few MBs.
After halting the backup I noticed that the Macintosh HD had grown by about 40 GB.I'd like to erase the duplicate data before running another backup, but I can't locate the extra data. I checked the size of the Users, System, Library, Developer, and Applications folder and they add up to the approx. 60 GB I had before the backup.
My iStat shows another drive called "backup1", but a search for that in finder yields no results. Also, Disk Utility doesn't show another drive besides Macintosh HD (I have the actual backup disk disconnected at the moment).
how does it save your files? is it like Time Machine that keeps on saving until you max out your space? or it just clones your current files only when you instruct it?the reason why I am asking is that I am planning to have 3 partitions on my external
hard drive (1 TB)
I downloaded carbon copy and when I click my external hd it says this CCC requires an HFS+-formatted target volume. I don't understand what it means even after reading the help page. And also say I would install something now on my new IMac and then I would migrate the file I backed up with carbon copy would those files still be there in my mac or how does that work?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI 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.
