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Hard drive change?
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I have a MacPro 1.1 with four hard drives installed. One of them seems to be failing but have sorted it out with Alsoft's Diskwarrior [what a great programme!]. It's has the system and applications on and I assume that it should be changed. If I do this will it be possible to restore all the software from Time Machine? Elementary instructions how to do whatever needs to be done would be appreciated........
(Last edited by Morbiato; Mar 5, 2009 at 03:59 AM.
(Reason:Left word out))
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Of course it can! (Click in the link below for detailed instructions.)
(1) Make one last backup before changing drives.
(2) Replace the faulty harddrive.
(3) Boot your OS X install CD.
(4) Select that you would like to restore from Time Machine Backup.
(5) Select a point in time you want to restore (probably the latest, but you could, in principle, restore to any point in your backup archive) and start.
(6) Get a cup of coffee. Spend some time with your kids. Clean up the garage. Depending on the amount of data, this will take a while.
(7) Reboot and start working where you've left off. Everything should have been transferred just fine.
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or...
give over one drive to a bootable superduper clone. Then
1) replace faulty hard drive
2) boot to superduper cloned drive
3) reset super duper to clone ot replacement drive
4) carry on working 5 minutes later
OK so your superduper clone will probably be from the day before, but it's pretty close.
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Why? Clones are a very bad way to back up data. You can restore over night, if you want or do something in the meantime.
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He's not saying cloning to backup. He's saying clone to switch out one drive for another. I personally agree with doing that because I don't really trust Time Machine full restores yet.
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Cloning is fine to swap a drive.
But don't use SuperDuper. It's slow and has had several issues in the past.
Cloning is built into OS X for free. /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility > Restore. Select erase destination and you'll have a perfect bootable clone. Thanks to block mode this is also the fastest cloning procedure you'll find.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac 
He's not saying cloning to backup. He's saying clone to switch out one drive for another. I personally agree with doing that because I don't really trust Time Machine full restores yet.
That's not how I understand it. He writes `continue working 5 minutes later, you may lose a little, but not much.' Meaning that the proposition here is to use one of the drives (from now on) to clone to system volume.
BTW, if you don't trust Time Machine's restore: try them. I haven't had a problem with them.
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