Even updating from 10.4 to 10.6 works correctly (albeit maybe not for all software).Īlso, if you are told by OSX that you need to fix a lot of permissions, there's something very wrong with that disk.
With a new disk, install OSX from scratch, then transfer settings, software and/or data with Migration Assistant and it'll automagically fix most permissions problems and such stuff. Try to clone a 1 TB disk to a 3 TB and you"ll see what I mean. If you get another drive, with a different size, there are some problems CCC and SD do not compensate for. If you need to clone a harddisk to several others, a cloning tool is what you need. It's really a bad habit to think 3rd party tools are better.ĬCC and SuperDuper are fine tools but they are no backup tools. Most people should use Time Machine and Migration Assistant. but even still, HD copy is a HD copy, shouldn't matter the size unless it's too small. so before it was 50GB, and 2nd time around (even with Window partition) i upsized to 75GB. the only diff when i did CCC, is that i wanted more space on my OS HD. but CCC definitely worked the second time around.
My thought was that using CCC with a partition may have been the problem - can't say that for sure. also didn't go the partition route this time - just a straight backup HD to HD. but test booting from the CCC source is very important - verify the CCC before doing anything. Recently i upgraded to 10.5.7 - i decided to try CCC again - this time it worked like a charm. I also ended up sorting out my 10.5.6 issue's on the main HD and all was good so i didn't need the CCC backup after all. i ended up wiping the drive and reformating it as one HD (no partition). what i found out on closer inspection, was that parts of the system directory was empty - no files copied ?! also discovered (via Disk Utility) that the partition needed repair.
When upgrading from 10.5.4 to 10.5.6 i bought a new WD internal drive partitioned it and then CCC'd the system drive to the smaller side of the partition (note: more than enough to hold all system files) - i upgraded to 10.5.6, but when i had some issues with the upgrade i only then (my bad) tried to boot from the CCC backup - no go - got the ? on boot.
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