Cloning a Mac! Perfectly bootable back up! EASY!

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Echosphere
Echosphere Posts: 395
edited June 2010 in DIY, Mods & Tweaks
Download the small free Carbon Copy Cloner app. (if you love it you should donate a few bucks)
http://www.bombich.com/

Buy any external USB hard drive from Best Buy that is at least as big as the data you have on your Mac. (doesn't have to be as big as your computers hard drive. Meaning if you have a 2TB drive but only 50GB of data then you only need a 60GB external USB drive)

Connect the USB hard drive.

Open the program and copy the data over. Wait about an hour or so till done.

Close the app and unplug the USB drive.

Take it to your bank's safety deposit box for safe keeping and get it outta of the house.

You're done!
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  • dane_peterson
    dane_peterson Posts: 1,903
    edited May 2010
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    Thanks for sharing... good idea.
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  • Janne
    Janne Posts: 139
    edited June 2010
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    I tried but it does not work on my McIntosh? :confused:
    HT/2 CH
    McIntosh MX120, MC500, MC206, MEN220
    polkaudio SDA SRS 1.2TL, XO, Inductor, Tweeter, Larry's rings, WBT Binding posts, Moretite and Dynamat mod. Built by Mollie Jones 27:th of February 1991, CS350-LS XO mod, LS-f/x, DSW MicroPro 4000
    MIT Shotgun S3.3 Bi-wire SC, Shotgun S3.3 SC, Shotgun S3.3 Proline IC, Shotgun S3.3 IC, Shotgun S3.3 Sub cable, AVT 1 Optical IC, EXP 3 Speaker interconnect.
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  • helipilotdoug
    helipilotdoug Posts: 1,230
    edited June 2010
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    Echosphere What Mac do you have, and what OS?
    Sunfire Theater Grand IV
    Sunfire Cinema Grand Signature
    SRS 2.1TL
    SDA 2BTL's
    CSiA6
    FXiA4
    FXiA6
    SDA 2A's
    Monitor 10A's
    http://www.douglasconnection.com
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