Call me paranoid, but, despite hardware failure (including a few hard disc sudden deaths) I've never lost a single file from equipment problems. Really important things also get burned to DVD. I also have two external, bus powered firewire 800 drives (both exactly the same size as my MBP's hard drive) which get cloned to on alternate weeks since one is kept at home, the other in my office at work. My TM drive (a 1 TB external firewire 800 drive) is partitioned to allow for the TM backups, and a weekly SuperDuper Clone of everything. It's not just a matter of isolating chances for hardware failure, but also limiting the chances of logic errors or corruption on the drive messing up the whole disc. Since the point is disaster recovery, it just makes sense to me to limit the use of the backup drive to just backing up. I always like to have at least some kind of backup on a dedicated drive. Initially, I had borrowed a friends (partially-used) drive for this purpose (to save buying an extra one), and copied every file & folder I could over to it.
#How to restore from carbon copy cloner plus
Plus with any laptop, there's the issue of how likely/user-friendly it is that you'll be plugged into your external backup drive EVERY hour. Carbon Copy Cloner Hello, I am in the process of backing up my MBP for a hardware issue (faulty optical drive). Let me know which you use, and recommend.Īlso, is there ANY way to configure Time Machine so it doesn't backup EVERY hour? Just seems that that's a bit gratuitous/will likely wear out the life of my drives more quickly. The advantages of cloning are many, but the one that is repeatedly mentioned in troubleshooting guides, as well as guides to. I think I'll use Time Machine next time, I just wasn't sure if it'd do the same job. Disk Utility, in all of its incarnations, has always had a restore function, a way to copy a disk volume or image file to another volume, creating an exact copy.We often think of this as cloning a drive, so you have an exact copy for backup or archiving purposes. Question is, besides the obvious advantages (that it does so automatically), what IS the difference between a backup created using Time Machine, and Carbon Copy Cloner? but if that's not a huge risk, let me know). However, when the question arose of whether I'd successfully copied all my Preference files, every Bookmark, etc, I just took someone's advice on here & used Carbon Copy Cloner to back it up to a brand new drive (first because it was safer & I wasn't imposing on my friend, 2nd because I didn't want there to be any risk that I'd write over their files while using it to backup to. Initially, I had borrowed a friend's (partially-used) drive for this purpose (to save $ buying an extra one), and copied every file & folder I could over to it. Hello, I am in the process of backing up my MBP for a hardware issue (faulty optical drive).
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