Replacement HDD for MacBook

Another question, if I may. When SuperDuper is done, the data on both discs should be identical, down to the ctime, mtime and permissions. So if I then run an rsync -av, rsync should do nothing, right?
 
koffiejunkie said:
Are you sure? rsync does file-level copying - I don't see an option in the man page for block-level copy?

If I run into trouble I'll ask, otherwise it's cool :)
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Indeed u are correct, rsync does not do block level, but it definitely can make a clone of your drive.

Honestly it probably would have been jsut as easy to use disk utility to do this though.
 
koffiejunkie said:
Another question, if I may. When SuperDuper is done, the data on both discs should be identical, down to the ctime, mtime and permissions. So if I then run an rsync -av, rsync should do nothing, right?
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theoretically yes u should have an exact mirror and therefore no recuirsive achive would happen. and honestly i have actually never used r-sync after super duper, but i reckon u might actually still find small changes. Such is my confidence in super duper.
 
Right, SuperDuper is done, and my rsync job (doing a dry-run just to see what it says) is busy building file list...

In the meantime, SuperDuper set the external drive as the boot drive (as opposed to just "making it bootable") and now when I reboot, the mac takes a long time before booting from the internal drive. I assume this is somewhere in the firmware? Do you know how to set this back?
 
koffiejunkie said:
Right, SuperDuper is done, and my rsync job (doing a dry-run just to see what it says) is busy building file list...

In the meantime, SuperDuper set the external drive as the boot drive (as opposed to just "making it bootable") and now when I reboot, the mac takes a long time before booting from the internal drive. I assume this is somewhere in the firmware? Do you know how to set this back?
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Have you tried pressing the option key down while booting?
 
bwana said:
Have you tried pressing the option key down while booting?
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Yeah, I know that one. It fails over eventually. I meant, setting it to look at the internal hard disc first, because it's obviously defaulting to some non-existant external device now.
 
It's not liking the Seagate drive. It gets to the grey screen with the apple and the spinning thingy, and just sits there. After a while the CPU fans come on. I tried booting it off USB, it does the same thing, and at some point the hard drive LED stops blinking.

I'll try a blank install on it tonight and see what happens.
 
koffiejunkie said:
It's not liking the Seagate drive. It gets to the grey screen with the apple and the spinning thingy, and just sits there. After a while the CPU fans come on. I tried booting it off USB, it does the same thing, and at some point the hard drive LED stops blinking.

I'll try a blank install on it tonight and see what happens.
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Like I might have mentioned - it takes longer:)

You can also set the default drive from the system preferences once you've booted.
 
something must be wrong, i have never waited that long for a drive to initialize after cloning it, in fact, its usually the same speed. I reckon u should jsut use disk util and use the restore function....

Otherwise, do clean install thn migrate data using migration assistant from ur old drive during installatiin
 
I just timed my start up and from chime to activity on the grey screen - iow where I can go into SUM etc - is 33 seconds. After that it flies just like it used to.
 
That sounds more like time-out like it's looking for an external drive to boot off. See the link I posted. I'm getting an enormous wait after I get to the grey screen. Busy doing a fresh install now...
 
Interesting, from hitting the power button to getting the little grey apple, takes 12 seconds (definitely longer than before), but from hitting the power button to a fully loaded desktop (virgin) takes 32 seconds.
 
koffiejunkie said:
That sounds more like time-out like it's looking for an external drive to boot off. See the link I posted. I'm getting an enormous wait after I get to the grey screen. Busy doing a fresh install now...
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Thanks - I set the default start up drive from the control panel and it made a considerable difference - 9 seconds to the spinning dial on the grey screen and from then 14 to log-in screen.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the hidden 10gb partition I set up as a PS swap disk or if it was just looking for the old drive?
 
bwana said:
Thanks - I set the default start up drive from the control panel and it made a considerable difference - 9 seconds to the spinning dial on the grey screen and from then 14 to log-in screen.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the hidden 10gb partition I set up as a PS swap disk or if it was just looking for the old drive?
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more than likely looking for the old drive, ur startup times can also be affected by firewire drives being plugged in..
 
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