[USNA91]

Greetings!

I'm trying to make a clone of my HD using CCC. No big deal, right?

Well, I don't think I'm getting this to work right. All I get on the destination drive is one file named "Macintosh HD.sparseimage", not the whole slew of folders I see on my home drive.

I'm running a PB 15" 1.5 GHZ with 1GB RAM. The destination drive is a FireWire 60GB drive that works just fine as an additional drive from Finder. I got an error message saying a drive (notice, I didn't say THE drive) was full, but the Home HD doesn't have 60GB of data (more like 45GB).

Am I doing something wrong? I have YET to get CCC to work for me...

Thanks!


ETA: Woops. Running OS 10.4.2.

[rickey939]

Are you making an image of your internal HD to the FireWire drive? It sounds like it. If so, you'll need twice the space of the size of your internal drive available on the FireWire drive because it makes an identical "sparse" image while it makes the real image on the drive. For example, if your internal HD has 32 GB of information on it, then you'll need 64 GB of space on the FireWire drive in order to make an image of it.

However, you can have CCC copy your data over to the FW drive WITHOUT making an image. It will just use the "ditto" Unix command and copy your data to the external drive byte by byte so you'll have an identical (even boot-able) copy of your internal drive.

[artlewis]

Forget CCC, which I liked very much, until Mike Bombich can get around to making it Tiger-compatable.
Try SuperDuper, although there's a modest fee.

[USNA91]

Originally Posted by rickey939

Are you making an image of your internal HD to the FireWire drive? It sounds like it.

Correct!

If so, you'll need twice the space of the size of your internal drive available on the FireWire drive because it makes an identical "sparse" image while it makes the real image on the drive. For example, if your internal HD has 32 GB of information on it, then you'll need 64 GB of space on the FireWire drive in order to make an image of it.

Ah!

Okay. Uh...... Fine.

However, you can have CCC copy your data over to the FW drive WITHOUT making an image. It will just use the "ditto" Unix command and copy your data to the external drive byte by byte so you'll have an identical (even boot-able) copy of your internal drive.

That's PRECISELY what I want to do (I think). I'm looking for a clone that I could conceiveably swap with my internal drive, boot up, and go.

How do I do what you mentioned, and is that any different than what I'm looking for.

Also, what they hey is a "sparse image"?

Nevahoidadawoid....

[rickey939]

Originally Posted by artlewis

Forget CCC, which I liked very much, until Mike Bombich can get around to making it Tiger-compatable.

Huh? It's been compatible since v10.4.2 was released...

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

[Randman]

Uhh, CCC is Tiger ready. artlewis doesn't know what he's talking about.

If the external can be wiped using Disk Utility, reformat it. Many externals come formatted for PCs and a good use of DU can help.

Then make sure you check your CCC preferences to make the cloned copy bootable. Also, repair permissions. You shouldn't end up with a sparse image.

[rickey939]

Originally Posted by USNA91

How do I do what you mentioned, and is that any different than what I'm looking for.

Just make sure that the "Create a disk image on target" option is NOT checked within CCC's preferences...

[artlewis]

Originally Posted by Randman

Uhh, CCC is Tiger ready. artlewis doesn't know what he's talking about.

If the external can be wiped using Disk Utility, reformat it. Many externals come formatted for PCs and a good use of DU can help.

Then make sure you check your CCC preferences to make the cloned copy bootable. Also, repair permissions. You shouldn't end up with a sparse image.

Sorry about the outdated info.
I am happy, though, to have CCC back.