Resolved: How do i clone my OS X? please help!

[Adam1988]

Hi my teacher told me there are methods of how to clone the OSX
i really want to know how do i do this?
i got another HDD just for me to clone it for another computer.
My teacher told me there is a software for cloning OSX to HDDs.
I have researched all over the places, but my luck is not that good.
I want to do this because recently my other imac HDD crashed.
And i bought 2 HDDs one for to work during the HDD inside the imac
and the other one as a back up.

Any help given will be amazingly appreciated!

THANK YOU!!!

[justperry]

Originally Posted by Adam1988

Hi my teacher told me there are methods of how to clone the OSX
i really want to know how do i do this?
i got another HDD just for me to clone it for another computer.
My teacher told me there is a software for cloning OSX to HDDs.
I have researched all over the places, but my luck is not that good.
I want to do this because recently my other imac HDD crashed.
And i bought 2 HDDs one for to work during the HDD inside the imac
and the other one as a back up.

Any help given will be amazingly appreciated!

THANK YOU!!!

Use Carbon Copy Cloner, version 3.4.7 is still free, later ones not, you can also use it to keep your backup up to date with the use of schedules, it's all build into CCC, and the good news about CCC is it makes bootable backups so if there is a problem you can boot from it and fix the problems or when the OS has problems at a bad time you won't loose time doing the fixing at that time, just boot into the backup and in minutes you are up again.

[mic j]

SuperDuper is free and will create a bootable clone of your drive. You can pay for it if you need more advance capability (scheduling, Smart Updates, etc). But the free version will get you a basic clone. SD or CC seem to be the 2 most popular one.

[Efrem]

Originally Posted by mic j

SuperDuper is free and will create a bootable clone of your drive...

I use SuperDuper also. (This is not to say anything negative about CCC.) I used its clone to transfer my entire system to my wife's spare Mac (different model) when mine needed some work done. The "brain transplant" worked perfectly. It takes a couple of hours to create a complete backup image of my hard drive, so I just start the process when I go to sleep. Time Machine, on a different partition of the same 1TB external drive, takes care of changes in between.

[Fishrrman]

You need either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper.

CCC works free for 30 days.
I _think_ SD is free so long as all you want to do is a complete clone (not incremental).

Both will create a complete backup that is BOOTABLE (you can't boot from a Time Machine backup).

[Adam1988]

Originally Posted by fishrrman

you need either carboncopycloner or superduper.

Ccc works free for 30 days.
I _think_ sd is free so long as all you want to do is a complete clone (not incremental).

Both will create a complete backup that is bootable (you can't boot from a time machine backup).

wow you guys are amazing your knowledge flows wisely !!!

Thnak you for your help and thank you so much for your time everyone!