I have always copied my hard disks with the Disk Utility "Restore" function. Is this the best way to copy discs? I don't get why I need Carbon Copy Cloner as this has always worked for me...
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I have always copied my hard disks with the Disk Utility "Restore" function. Is this the best way to copy discs? I don't get why I need Carbon Copy Cloner as this has always worked for me...
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That's used to make disk images, and not the "best" backup solution--in fact, not really a backup solution at all. .dmg files are not cloned drives, two different things altogether. CCC (and SuperDuper) clone the drive, where the clone is bootable. If your drive is toasted, you HAVE to boot from the install DVD to restore the image (or another machine and Target Mode, or... You get the idea). With the others, you simply boot from the clone.
Apple Software Restore (/usr/sbin/asr) is the osx command line tool used to clone disks. Rsync is used by CCC to incrementally update (previously cloned) disks. [...] it is just a pretty GUI wrapper for already existing tools, asr is on every osx machine, rsync is available through multiple channels (CCC, Macports, etc.)
I have developed a utility that encapsulates the power of asr and rsync and performs all the necessary steps to clone a drive.
That's used to make disk images, and not the "best" backup solution--in fact, not really a backup solution at all. .dmg files are not cloned drives, two different things altogether. CCC (and SuperDuper) clone the drive, where the clone is bootable. If your drive is toasted, you HAVE to boot from the install DVD to restore the image (or another machine and Target Mode, or... You get the idea). With the others, you simply boot from the clone.