Carbon Copy Cloner help

[Tarek]

I made a full CCC backup of my late '16 MBP and I want to restore it (system AND data) on my early '15 MBP.

Is that possible? And if so, would it be as simple as rebooting, holding ALT, and then choosing the CCC drive to boot from? My older Mac is on High Sierra and I want it to be a clone of my current MBP which is running Mojave if possible.

Thanks a lot

 

[chscag]

I'm not sure that would work because of the hardware difference between the late 2016 MBP and early 2015 MBP. Someone else will have to confirm that though as I have never tried to restore a clone from a later model Mac to an earlier one.

 

[Tarek]

@chscag that's one of the things I was concerned about. I guess it would be safer to install a fresh copy of Mojave on the older MBP and then restore the Users folder to it, which pretty much has all the data that I need. Would that be the best way to go about it?

 

[charlyham]

I made a full CCC backup of my late '16 MBP and I want to restore it (system AND data) on my early '15 MBP.

Is that possible? And if so, would it be as simple as rebooting, holding ALT, and then choosing the CCC drive to boot from? My older Mac is on High Sierra and I want it to be a clone of my current MBP which is running Mojave if possible.

Thanks a lot

I would think that if the older mbp will boot the clone, it would run it if you were to restore it. If you get errors or issues booting the clone then you probably can't restore it to the '15 mbp. If you can't boot the clone then doing a fresh install of the MacOS you want to run then use migration wizard to import your profile and apps from the clone.