Carbon Copy Cloner for Mac

[PeterCH]

Carbon Copy Cloner for Mac (freeware/donation ware) will copy the entire contents of a partition to another partition including OSX files and make that partition bootable. Free and it really works.

http://www.bombich.com/

I tried doing the same with Drive Genius and it wouldn't do it because the source partition was too fragmented and it wouldn't defragment it.

 

[bwana]

I used to use CCC but for whatever reason at the time moved to superduper and never went back.

 

[PeterCH]

I used to use CCC but for whatever reason at the time moved to superduper and never went back.

I used it to copy my Macintosh HD from its 300GB partition to the 160GB SSD.
My Mac OSX Leopard install and applications are about 100GB but Drive Genius Clone Copy or whatever it is called would not let me copy this 100GB to the 160GB SSD. It wanted to first defragment the source partition but after a few seconds it failed and gave up saying that copying was not possible. I had booted with the Drive Genius Boot disk to do this.

Anyway CCC did this for me and for free and it made my partition bootable. It's a nice app, it shows little ads while doing the copying but that's not a major issue. It did what $89 Drive Genius couldn't do.

 

[assagai]

I used it to copy my Macintosh HD from its 300GB partition to the 160GB SSD.
My Mac OSX Leopard install and applications are about 100GB but Drive Genius Clone Copy or whatever it is called would not let me copy this 100GB to the 160GB SSD. It wanted to first defragment the source partition but after a few seconds it failed and gave up saying that copying was not possible. I had booted with the Drive Genius Boot disk to do this.

Anyway CCC did this for me and for free and it made my partition bootable. It's a nice app, it shows little ads while doing the copying but that's not a major issue. It did what $89 Drive Genius couldn't do.

cool might use this before upgrading to snow leopard

 

[PeterCH]

cool might use this before upgrading to snow leopard

Yeah, you can backup your entire partition and make it bootable.

 

[StbA]

Does Carbon Copy Cloner or Superduper backup onto a NTFS formatted NAS?

 

[Sputnik]

Does Carbon Copy Cloner or Superduper backup onto a NTFS formatted NAS?

Does it matter? You can copy via the mounted share, cifs, nfs or afp?