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How do I clone my Mac with Carbon Copy Cloner?
When you need a complete, simple backup of your entire hard drive:
- Open Carbon Copy Cloner.
- Choose the volume that you want to clone from the Source selector.
- Choose a properly-formatted volume from the Destination menu.
- Click the Clone button.
How do I restore my Mac with Carbon Copy Cloner?
Open CCC and click the Restore button in CCC’s toolbar to create a new restore task. Drag your backup folder from the network share onto CCC’s Source selector. Create a new folder at the location where you would like to restore data.
How do you restore a clone on a Mac?
How to restore your Mac from a clone
- Turn off your Mac.
- Connect your external drive into the appropriate port on your Mac.
- Turn on your Mac.
- Hold down the Command and R keys as soon as the system restarts to enter Recovery Mode.
- Click on Disk Utility and then click continue.
- Select your hard drive.
How do you copy a time machine to a new drive?
Once downloaded, you simply select your old Time Machine drive as the source and set your new drive as the destination. Note that it will wipe the destination drive and format it before it begins the copy process, but after that it will clone your source to your destination.
What’s the best way to backup time machine?
Essentially Apple’s instructions simply tell you to turn off Time Machine, then drag and drop your old Backups.backupdb folder from one drive to another. In my experience that rarely works.
How do you clone a volume in CCC?
Choose the volume that you want to clone from the Source selector Choose a properly-formatted volume from the Destination menu If you want to update your cloned volume in the future, simply run the same task (or schedule it so it runs automatically) and CCC will update the backup volume with only the items that have changed since your last backup.