![]() You can either do the rsync first or the Migration Assistant first. You would have less downtime just installing a new OSX onto an external disk or even with another system, then use Migration Assistant for the system files and rsync for the /Users/ folders. Cloning takes far too long and puts your system out of commission. They're no longer really necessary except for special cases, such as digital forensics. You should probably get yourself a large Time Machine Disk and have your system back up to Time Machine frequently.ĭisk clones are always slow the first time around. It's very easy to set up different kind of backups, like one every month of your whole disk run only at night, hourly of your workspace etc. I however use CCC mainly to make clones of Users to move to other macs but use Chronosync to do the kind of daily mirroring of file servers or computers. You would need to schedule frequent backups so you would never have to worry about it. DropDMG is promising you do a backup while you work and I can confirm that CCC can also make backups and cloning while I am working on that disk. You would also need frequent backups not only off hours but while you work. DropDMG description does not mention if it clones the Restore disk.īoth programs seem to be pretty good for what you are after.Īs you describe it, it seems very important that you would make a good cloned copy of your disk with the ability to start up from the backup if the main disk fails. I have not used DropDMG but it seems to do very similar stuff as Carbon Copy Cloner which I am more used to. Usually Mac geeks buy everything in sight, just to check out weird utilities. ![]() Will I have to live in Peru along with Edward Snowden?ĭoes “DropDMG” do roughly the same thing as CCC ? (Carbon Copy Cloner) Will the “En Ess Say” list me as a cyber-terrorist because I bought a key-logger? Is that even feasible? Are any good key-logger app’s for sale commercially? I thought of desperate means of reconstructing recent activity, such as buying a “White Hat” key-logger to recreate my recent keyboard activity. I _try_ to create backups often, but like many other Mac users I am remiss.Īnd any recent backup is _still_ missing the most recent activity, which often takes me hours to re-construct assuming I can even remember what I did. I suffer bursts of creative activity, usually when I forget to take my medications. Perhaps I better describe what I am trying to do? Tough cloning problem, “Carbon Copy Cloner” versus “DropDMG” - which is “better” for cloning a boot SSD for backup purposes.īoth of those two utilities are seldom used by “ordinary” Mac users, so I am having a terrible time trying to unearth their pros and cons.īoth utilities can handle hidden files, hidden EFI partitions, “hard links”, and other hidden pseudocode that Apple throws up as part of their file systems - such that a “Restored” internal boot SSD is a more-or-less dead ringer for the original internal boot SSD.
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