How do i set up with CCC?

[Daniel97]

I have backed up my old MBP and now sold it.

I have both a time machine and a carbon clone backup.

How do i now set up my new MBA with it?

I want the air to be identical to how the MBP was.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks 🙂

 

[teleromeo]

Fire up your new machine and let the migration assistant dot the copying. I don't think it matters which of the two backups you use to copy from, the assistant will copy your old settings as much as possible. I don't think it's a good idea to clone your CCC disk to your new air.

 

[old-wiz]

A clone from an older MBP will almost certainly not work on a new MBA. New MBAs ship with custom version of Lion, and you can't install anything prior to that. New drivers are required for Thunderbolt and the GPU.

 

[Daniel97]

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Okay,

So all my folders, apps, music, pictures lalalala copy with migration assistant?

Don't use the CCC?!

 

[teleromeo]

I guess you can use the CCC clone as long as you do it with the migration assistant. Be sure to migrate only the bootable clone without archives.
If you copy the clone to your new mac with CCC there will be files missing that are vital for the newer machine.

 

[Daniel97]

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Okay I'll use TM ..

If I use time machine will it be sure to be identical?

 

[Hansr]

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Okay I'll use TM ..

If I use time machine will it be sure to be identical?

Don't use time machine, use migration assistant.

 

[Damo01]

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Okay I'll use TM ..

If I use time machine will it be sure to be identical?

Don't use time machine, use migration assistant.

Your Time Machine's backup and your CCC's backup should be identically the same as a source from where you backed it up from unless of course you have excluded files.

use migration assistant to transfer one of your backup copies either TM or CCC.

 

[Daniel97]

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Okay so what turn the new mac on and select don't copy data?

Then when it gets to the desktop choose migration assistant in the utilities?

 

[Hansr]

No just say copy data, it will use migration assistant without logging in as a user.

 

[Fishrrman]

"Okay,
So all my folders, apps, music, pictures lalalala copy with migration assistant?"

Yes, that should work well.

You don't need to use CCC to "reverse clone", because migration assistant will do its thing and "pull" all the relevant files from your cloned copy, leaving behind that which isn't needed.

Once you're all set up with the new MBA, you can _again_ use CCC to create a bootable clone from your _new_ setup.