Clone rMBP SSD to 2.5 HDD enclosure

[Alag28]

Whats the easiest way?

so again...i want to take all the information thats on my rMBP SSD and clone it to my 2.5 HDD enclosure????

thanks

 

[satcomer]

Get the shareware Carbon Copy Cloner. You can even setup incremental backups after that initial clone.

 

[Alag28]

thanks

 

[westrock2000]

Whats the easiest way?

so again...i want to take all the information thats on my rMBP SSD and clone it to my 2.5 HDD enclosure????

thanks

If the target drive is at least as big as the original drive you can use the built-in "dd" command that comes with all Unix & Linux based operating systems. Its not pretty to look at, but it will make an EXACT copy of the drive.

dd is also very handy for wiping out a drive. I had a flashdrive that got corrupted during a format and nothing would open it. Not Windows, not OSX, not Linux. They could all mount the drive, but could not access the filesystem on it.

So I used dd and wrote all 0's to it, then presto, was able to reformat it.

 

[Alag28]

another question,

so i completely made a clone of my source 256 ssd to my mechanical drive.

i boot into it using my sister mbp, can i connect my iphone and restore my backup?

 

[Weaselboy]

another question,

so i completely made a clone of my source 256 ssd to my mechanical drive.

i boot into it using my sister mbp, can i connect my iphone and restore my backup?

Yes, it would be just like you were running your own Mac.