Will a Western Digital Elements External Hard Drive work with Carbon Copy Cloner?
Is Carbon Copy Cloner the best way to run a back up?
Is Time Machine any good?
Is Carbon Copy Cloner the best way to run a back up?
Is Time Machine any good?
I suspect no issues with the WD drive. CCC does have an "unsupported" version, V3.5.7, that is compatible with Snow Leopard:Will Carbon Copy Cloner work with Mac OS 10.6.8?
Does CCC work with WD Elements External Hard Drives?
Yes, it is mandatory to erase the drive when you get it, and then format it via the appropriate Mac format.Yes the elements work with CCC - good idea to reformat any new drive first with disk utilities
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Use either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper. They work with almost anything.
If your backup needs are under 2tb, you might consider:
- buy a "bare" 2.5" drive
- buy a USB3 enclosure (these are cheap)
- put the drive into the enclosure
- initialize (erase) with disk utility to Mac OS extended with journaling enabled.
- now, ready-to-use with either CCC or SD.
CCC works great - much better than Time Machine (IMHO)
The drive size is somewhat irrelevant. What matters is how much data is on the drive to be backed up. So, for example, you might have a 2TB internal drive you want to backup and it only has 250GB of space used. So you even if you allowed for double that to allow for some storage of old file versions, a 500GB drive would work just fine.How much larger should the back up hard drive be than the computer's hard drive when using either Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper?
I think using Time Machine it'll have to be about 4 times larger but I could be wrong.
They are fine, but as someone mentioned earlier in the thread, all hard drives are pretty much the same. Just decide what size you want and grab whatever USB3 drive you can find on sale.Are G-Technology external drives any good? I believe Western Digital makes them.
I'm curious why you think that CCC it is much better ?
I see some of the WD external drives come with encryption? What is encryption and is it necessary for a back up drive?
The drive size is somewhat irrelevant. What matters is how much data is on the drive to be backed up. So, for example, you might have a 2TB internal drive you want to backup and it only has 250GB of space used. So you even if you allowed for double that to allow for some storage of old file versions, a 500GB drive would work just fine.
So I would just buy a drive around twice the size of the amount of data you expect to want to backup.
Exactly! SuperDuper! does the same, and is excellent. Also, such bootable backups make recovery so much easier, and also makes moving to a new Mac OS simpler too.I like the cloning aspect (complete bootable back-up) and the fact that I can make scripts to copy external disk to external disk, or for individual files or folder to an external drive.
Understood and you are correct. I was only trying to explain the backup drive size is more driven by how much actual data one has than the source drive size.Time machine will fill the entire drive over time. It only starts deleting the incremental backups when the drive is almost full (i.e. a larger backup drive will contain more Time Machine backups).