How do you clone or back up your system drive before a Tiger install?

[David]

https://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/ccc_boot_drive.html

[Tony! Hulette]

Carbon Copy works great. I always keep a recent backup of my startup drive using it. I like to install two identical internal hard drives on each of my Mac’s with the second being an up-to-date clone of the first. That way I can install new system and application updates without fear, It’s really nice knowing I can clone back to the working system I had before the updates (or just boot from the second drive). An external backup drive can work as well.

Tony!

[Mrvideo]

[Tony!] “Carbon Copy works great”

Just keep in mind that (unless it has changed within the last 48 hours) CCC does not work in Tiger at this time.

[Tony! Hulette]

[MrVideo] “[Tony!] “Carbon Copy works great”

Just keep in mind that (unless it has changed within the last 48 hours) CCC does not work in Tiger at this time.”

Good point MR V, although it does not effect you backing up your current system to a bootable drive before upgrading to Tiger. I believe Retrospect has been updated for Tiger (It’s probably the oldest and has always been one of the best backup solutions for the Mac). It would be a good, but more expensive, alternative. You can also just use Apple’s built-in Disk Utility to clone/restore a drive.

https://www.dantz.com/en/products/mac_personal/index.dtml

Tony!