“Normal” meaning like a non-bootable external drive. Sorry, this may be a dumb question, but I have no experience with this and I couldn’t seem to find the answer via search. Maybe because it’s so rudimentary. Also not sure this is the right forum for this.
The background for this question is I plan to keep an external portable drive connected to my Mac that I can grab at any time on my way out the door, and I basically want it to be a 1:1 copy of all the data on my Mac, and just one-way sync. But I figured it might as well also be bootable while I’m at it, just in case the need to boot ever arises. But only if that doesn’t interfere with easily accessing its data like a normal external drive.
I was planning to buy Carbon Copy Cloner to set up the clone drive. But if the drive being a clone/bootable does interfere, does CCC have an option to one-way sync an entire computer to an external drive without making it bootable? Or do I need other software?
Also a side unrelated question about CCC if anyone knows- if I put a MacBook into target disk mode and connect it to my Mac mini, can I use CCC on my Mac mini to clone my MacBook to another drive? I need to occasionally clone my MacBook (definitely needs to be bootable in this case) and just trying to see if I can avoid buying CCC twice (for each computer).
I appreciate the help!
The background for this question is I plan to keep an external portable drive connected to my Mac that I can grab at any time on my way out the door, and I basically want it to be a 1:1 copy of all the data on my Mac, and just one-way sync. But I figured it might as well also be bootable while I’m at it, just in case the need to boot ever arises. But only if that doesn’t interfere with easily accessing its data like a normal external drive.
I was planning to buy Carbon Copy Cloner to set up the clone drive. But if the drive being a clone/bootable does interfere, does CCC have an option to one-way sync an entire computer to an external drive without making it bootable? Or do I need other software?
Also a side unrelated question about CCC if anyone knows- if I put a MacBook into target disk mode and connect it to my Mac mini, can I use CCC on my Mac mini to clone my MacBook to another drive? I need to occasionally clone my MacBook (definitely needs to be bootable in this case) and just trying to see if I can avoid buying CCC twice (for each computer).
I appreciate the help!
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