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Carbon Copy Cloner - cloning a clone?

3wood

3wood

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Jun 13, 2012
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Before I took my 2011 iMac 21" in for repair last week, I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the hard drive, and I checked it to make sure it worked. The clone booted fine to the iMac. Now I find that the iMac will be at the Apple Store for repair at least another week so if you can - please answer this for me regarding the clone.

1. The external HD I used for cloning the iMac's drive is now needed for something else so I would like to move the material that makes up the clone onto a different external drive. Can I simply use CCC to clone the clone onto a different drive? Then when I get the iMac back, I should be able to use the new "cloned clone" to restore back to the iMac?

Thank you,
Reed.
 
3wood said:
1. The external HD I used for cloning the iMac's drive is now needed for something else so I would like to move the material that makes up the clone onto a different external drive. Can I simply use CCC to clone the clone onto a different drive? Then when I get the iMac back, I should be able to use the new "cloned clone" to restore back to the iMac?
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Why not simply use the other external drive for whatever purpose you have, rather than messing with the cloned backup? To properly clone your backup, I would boot from that backup, then create another clone.
 
GGJstudios said:
Why not simply use the other external drive for whatever purpose you have, rather than messing with the cloned backup? To properly clone your backup, I would boot from that backup, then create another clone.
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The drive containing the clone is a 1TB. It's my largest external, and I would like to use it for some other work, but I'll leave the clone alone if there are possibilities I could damage the clone by cloning or other wise moving it onto another drive. I'll work around using the 1TB drive containing the clone.

Thanks.
 
3wood said:
Can I simply use CCC to clone the clone onto a different drive? Then when I get the iMac back, I should be able to use the new "cloned clone" to restore back to the iMac?

Thank you,
Reed.
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Yes, that would work just fine.
 
3wood said:
Wb, thank you.
Reed.
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It should work fine, but just to remind you its always a good idea to test it by changing your start-up disk in Sys Pref to the clone, then rebooting and making sure it works as per normal system, before you delete anything.
 
"Then when I get the iMac back, I should be able to use the new "cloned clone" to restore back to the iMac?"

Yes, just "clone the clone" BACK to the original drive.

Works fine.
 
THANKS everybody for your advice. When I got the imac back from Apple on Wednesday. All went smoothly cloning the clone back to the puter. :D

Reed.
 
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