Carbon Copy Cloner Disk Image Restore

[Chris Borjis]

Has anyone here successfully restored
a Disk Image made with Carbon Copy Cloner?

Did it work flawlessly as expected?

How long did the restore take
and did it boot right up?

[David Roth Weiss]

Chris,

I don’t know the answer regarding Disk Image, but in the future, don’t use Disk Image, the purpose of making a clone is to make a bootable, testable exact copy that you can have up and running instantly.

David

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[Alan Lacey]

Yea, but what about copying that back to the internal HDD as the main system?

I’ve created an external first install of Leopard on a Lacie external as a testbed. I’m still in the process of installing all the apps on it. If and when it’s flawless (being a FW drive on the MBP I don’t think I’ll get my IoHD running because of it’s need of the bus) what’s the chance I will be able to CCclone it to the main drive?

What this has proved is that a problem I was having with Motion and big bitmaps is probably a Tiger-GeForce8600 issue as it disappears under Leopard.

Alan

[Zak Mussig]

No problem… just boot from that drive and clone it to your internal boot drive. If you can spare the external, just set it aside as your backup drive, ready to boot in a moment’s notice.

Zak

[Alan Lacey]

Wow!! As simple as that?

That’s certainly what I was hoping for but haven’t had the courage (or need yet) to actually do it yet.

Alan

[Chris Borjis]

[David Roth Weiss] “the purpose of making a clone is to make a bootable, testable exact copy that you can have up and running instantly.”

agreed.

but it should be just as possible and useful to make a backup drive image itself that can be restored to a new drive.

Same concept, but requiring time to restore an image rather than switching to a ready drive.

I have a situation on a few systems where this would be a definite advantage over having a spare drive ready, as odd as that sounds.

I know for a fact that Norton Ghost does this for a PC and CCC is capable of it as well, I was just wondering if anyone had done it.

[David Roth Weiss]

[Chris Borjis] “I have a situation on a few systems where this would be a definite advantage over having a spare drive ready, as odd as that sounds.”

I understand… In a situation with multiple edit bays like yours that could be a good thing.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Alan Lacey]

So nobody’s actually done this yet?

Alan

[David McGiffert]

Yes, I did it.

I used CCC to clone my old computers drive (which had
FCS-original and OSX 10.4.11 on it), onto a firewire drive.
I took the FW drive down to ProMax who was configuring
my new computer. They used it to clone my HD
as one half of a partition on the boot drive .
On the second partition I had them put OSX 10.4.11
and FCS2 on it.

I then used the two partitions to migrage an in-progress
project from my original drive onto the new partition bit
by bit.

I had all my footage files backed up on a PCIe drive
that I used to see if the new partition would work
well enough to migrate over to and work from.

It all worked very well…so well that ProMax told me they
were going to use that method with some other customers who
wanted the same kind of set-up.

David

[Alan Lacey]

This is music to my ears David.

I’d be connecting the FW drive to the MBP, booting from it into my new (configured Leopard + Apps), holding my breath while erasing and formatting the original Tiger install on the internal drive, then CCCing Leopard over to the internal drive.

I wonder if anyone’s done this on the MBP?

Thanks Alan