Best way to clone my drive to an EHD

I want ot clone my ibooks drive to an EHD. The ibooks 40gb is just to small so I want to use the firewire EHD as the main drive to keep all my files etc. Whats the best way to clone my drive? Should I use disc utility or other software?

Carbon Copy Cloner:
http://www.bombich.com/download.html

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What is the best way to clone a drive that is corrupted?

I have an external hard drive that crashed during a power outage and got it mounted again with the help of diskwarrior, but I can't seem to drag files off of it to back them up. Is there a way to make an exact backup on a new drive so that I can remove the original from it's casing and attempt to put it into a new enclosure without the issue getting worse?

As Shootist007 says, if it's so corrupted that you can't copy anything from it, it's unlikely that you'll be able to use some other utility to do the job. Especially if repairing it with DiskWarrior didn't do the job.
Ultimately, you need to keep backups of all your files, including those on an external hard drive. Any files you don't have multiple redundant copies of, all on different media, are files you will lose eventually.
If some of the files on that drive are irreplaceable, you could try recovery software. See Recovering deleted files. If that doesn't work, your only option would be an expensive data recovery service, which still can't guarantee anything.

Best Way to Clone Drive?

What would be the best way to clone a drive. Arch has worked so well I might drastically shrink my Windows 7 partition, but would like to restore an exact copy of this install. Please note it's installed in an encrypted lvm group, which might complicate things.

Clonezilla, definitely. It runs as a live cd/usb, so you can easily clone existing installs. It has a bunch of easy to use dialogs to clone drives and partitions to devices and images, local and over a network etc. (yeah i used it recently and it saved me ). I have no experience with LVM, but according to the website it seems to support LVM2.

What's the best way to clone my boot drive?

I just bought a new 500GB drive for my G4. What's the best way to clone my boot drive?
Is there a way to put the new drive on the buss as a second drive and then copy everything from my boot drive to the new drive? How do I make the new drive bootable?
Or
Do I have to install OSX on the new drive, put the old boot drive on the buss as a second drive and migrate everything to the new drive with the Utilities Migration Assitant program?
Are there programs available to make this easier? Where & how much?
Thanks for any help I can get.

bamim2:
Dr. Smoke's FAQ Backup and Recovery has excellent advice on developing a backup strategy.
You already have a larger extrnal HDD (Hopefully it is firewire?) The next step is to format and partition the HDD. (see step-by-step below). And thirdly you will need a good cloning utility. Carbon Copy Cloner has already been suggested, and the latest version is excellent. I, personally, prefer SuperDuper for its ease of use and efficiency. Both are great tools and relatively simple to use.
I mentioned the hope that you have a firewire. One of the wonderful benefits of using an external firewire HDD for backing up is that you can make a bootable clone. This gives you an emergency boot drive in case of a problem. It also gives you an external device for running diagnostics and repairs from the extnernal to the computer and vice-versa.
Congratulations on taking the first step toward securing your computer and your data!
Formatting, Partitioning Zeroing a Hard Disk Drive
Warning! This procedure will destroy all data on your Hard Disk Drive. Be sure you have an up-to-date, tested backup of at least your Users folder and any third party applications you do not want to re-install before attempting this procedure.
Boot from the install CD holding down the "C" key.
Select language
Go to the Utilities menu (Tiger) Installer menu (Panther & earlier) and launch Disk Utility.
Option for formatting an External HDD
Connect external HDD to computer
Turn on external HDD
Start up computer and log in
Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility and launch DU.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
Select Partition tab in main panel. (You are about to create a single partition volume.)
Select number of partition in pull-down menu above Volume diagram.
(Note 1: One partition is normally preferable for an internal HDD. External HDDs usually have more than one. See Dr. Smoke’s FAQ Backup and Recovery for tips on partitioning external HDD
Note 2: For more partitions than one, after you have selected the number of partitions you can adjust the size of the partition by selecting the top partition and typing in the size; then move down if more adjustments need to be made..)
Type in name in Name field (usually Macintosh HD)
Select Volume Format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Click Partition button at bottom of panel.
Select Erase tab
Select the sub-volume (indented) under Manufacturer ID (usually Macintosh HD).
Check to be sure your Volume Name and Volume Format are correct.
Optional: Select on Security Options button (Tiger) Options button (Panther & earlier).
Select Zero all data. (This process will map out bad blocks on your HDD. However, it could take several hours. If you want a quicker method, don't go to Security Options and just click the Erase button.)
Click OK.
Click Erase button
Quit Disk Utility.
Good luck.
cornelius

Best way to clone an existing drive, then clone back to a dual SSD Raid 0 setup?

Have a Mac Pro 5,1 (mid 2012) and want to install 2 SSD drives in a Raid 0.
Will attempt to use the Apple Disk Utility to set up the raid. any suggestions on this first part will be welcome!
But what is the best way to clone the existing SATA drive onto the Raid setup?
The 2 SSD are Samsung 84 Pro 256 GB units, installed on a Temp SSD Pro 6 Gb SATA PCIe card.
The OS is Mavericks 9.1.
Thanks !

Always no matter what, have a clone or three - clean, working image, last version before OS X 1.2.3 that you are about to install.
It is about INSTALLING OS X, not updating once you have it - though updates and security updates are known to be monkey wrenches too at times.
Never remove safety net, no matter how safe it seems.
Use a clone to run DU and repair the drive, the drive partition, it handles both (partition integrity was new to Lion), AND to invoke TRIM command when repairing (which won't happen in recovery partition mode of DU).
CCC does a smart update. You don't worry about applying updates to those, and in fact wait a few days before applying updates sometimes, or just make sure the clone is up to date so you can boot from and do a restore if needed. A system restore image is only as good as knowing it will work in an emergency should one arise.
Like to see people break ground on new projects and how to get more out of their systems. The 5,1 does not have the limitations or issues that even the 4,1 exhibited let alone even more for the Early '08 3,1s.
One good SSD alone should / would / make more improvement in performance for low investment than any I have seen. If you have the Tempo Pro card and 2 x 250GB 840's that is about $600 investment - throw in another system SSD and use the Tempo for scratch and/or Aperture and insure you have "more than enough" RAM and your workflow should be smooth. Even wtih that, which I call "best practices" the nMP 6.1 makes Aperture etc even smoother as everything is optimized better and the 1200MB/sec SSD and 4-channel 1866 DDR3 makes graphics smoother and respond instantly to your touch (sports car handling vs your sedan?)
After doing a lot of installs, upgrades, Migration Assistant; and then on a 2-4 week basis boot from another volume to run DU Repair.
OS X alone without the cache used and other things on the boot drive really only takes 40-160GB and makes it easy to create a DU sparse disk image for CCC to update and restore from and that can be kept anywhere. And have a small 200GB emergency maintenance boot volume that you can add to and create on any volume you have handy, shrink and add to that 2TB media drive or TimeMachine drive volume.
I would just set aside half an hour weekly or as needed to clone your system. Than clone again before you apply anything, system update or update to applications or new applications.
With all your personal data and media and projects not on the system you don't need a RAID0 array to hold as much data, no need for the added complexity or using two SSD devices, easier to maintain and restore. There is even a small added overhead to any RAID. With an 840 EVO 500GB just above $300 it makes a lot of sense to use those, and almost too big for a system drive. Fine if the system drive is not just OS and applications but media and stuff don't need to be there. Again, Aperture/Lightroom and other uses, yes and with t he new Mac Pro people are putting and using it for multiple purposes and uses that they would not have wtih the 2012 5,1 and earlier. But it is so fast it makes sense - and Thunderbolt 2 external storage has added more costs to storage.
Kind of got long winded, hope it proves helpful. And not confusing but may raise more questions and ideas.

Best way to duplicate Tiger Drive on a new HD?

Hi,
My MacPro is still running Tiger on its orginal 250Mb HD. I don't want to get rid of Tiger as it will run my CoolScan 9000's Nikon Scan software. Leopard won't. I have purchased a new 1 TB WD Black drive and was intending to partition it with 400GB going to Tiger and 600GB going to Snow Leopard when it arrives. What is the best way to clone the Tiger drive to dupe it on the new drive? Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper? Or another way?

Look at Mac Backup - Mac Backup Software, Hardware, and Guides for Your Mac
http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/tp/backuphub.htm
Mac OS X data backup FAQ http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
You can use CarbonCopy Cloner @ http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html , or SuperDuper @ http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html , or IBackup @ http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/index.html , or Silverkeeper @ http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/ or the Restore function of Disk Utility included in OS X.
 Cheers, Tom

What is the best way to clone a form field in BC

Hi,
What is the best way to clone a form field in BC. I tried using jquery .clone. It works fine on other forms for me but not on the BC forms, why? is it just me? Any help would be great. Thanks

I mean, duplicate a field with the click of a button.
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Best way to Clone 11i on Linux w/o any Oracle SW on target.

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I have an instance of BS 11.5.10.2 on Linux 4.6 (Single Node) stage. I have another Linux box stage which also has HEAL 4.6 which don't have any kind of oracle software. But both system has same oracle/capping users, file systems, host configuration and OS RPM.
I want to setup stage box as an test instance for stage. In order to clone the 11.5.10.2 from stage to stage, do I need to install any Oracle software to perform cloning. What would be the best way to clone 11.5.10.2 ; in this scenario?
Thanks
Samar

You do not need to install any Oracle software before cloning, but you need to install all pre-req. software and packages at the OS level before doing so. Rapid Clone will NOT take care of that, the OS at the source and the target nodes should be identical in terms of packages and pre-req. software. Moreover, make sure you have all software components installed as in Note: 230672.1 (Under "Section 1: Prerequisites").
For the list of pre-req. OS packages/patches and kernel settings, please refer to:
Note: 294932.1 - Recommendations to Install Oracle Applications 11i
https://metalink2.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=294932.1
Note: 169706.1 - Oracle® Database on AIX®,HP-UX®,Linux®,Mac OS® X,Solaris®,Tru64 Unix® Operating Systems Installation and Configuration Requirements Quick Reference (8.0.5 to 11.1)
https://metalink2.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=169706.1

Best way to clone a table?

Hi,
What is the best way to clone an existing table definition?
What I mean is, I want to do the following:
create table tab2 as
select * from tab1;
delete from tab2;
commit;
But clearly this involves copying all the data and then delete it. Is there a more efficient way?
Another alternative I could think of is:
create table tab2 as
select * from tab1 where rownum < 2;
delete from tab2;
commit;
This would copy only one row instead of all the rows in tab1. This is clearly much more efficient than the first approach, but I still don't like the idea of copying the data and deleting it.
I am sure there would be a "cleaner" way. Any ideas?
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Hi Justin,
My work involves generating statistics by running various queries. So, I have written a few procedures that generate the statistics and insert into certain tables. Usually before starting to generate a new round of stats, I take back up of the previously generated data like this.
Approach I:
alter table summary_tab rename to summary_tab_20th;
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commit;
Of course, another alternative I have is the following:
Approach II:
create table summary_tab_20th as
select * from summary_tab;
delete from summary_tab;
commit;
But I thought this is inefficient when compared to Approach I because it copies ALL the data from summary_tab to summary_tab_20th and then deletes ALL the data from summary_tab.
However, one disadvantage with Approach I is that everytime I do this the stored procedure gets invalidated and I have to recompile it.
So, that is where I stand. If all this looks very dirty, please suggest how I can 'clean up' my process :-)
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Best way to clone SSD to upgrade

Hi
I'm oretty tech savvy and i know several ways to do this but i'm looking forward to best way to do it. I have kensigton 240gb ssd in my computer and im upgrading to intel 240gb ssd. Lion onwards, you can't run disc utility and do restore to clone, we need to boot to restore partition or lion boot disc for this. Is that the best way to do it? I know doing this we lose the hidden restore partition whih i dont care but is there anyway doing it to keep the hidden partition or to make it truly perfect clone without affecting any programs.
One way to do is do clean install of 10.7.3 and use migration assitant the very first time computer boots and it will keep hidden partition also but i have always refrained from doing migration assistant since it doesnt copy few stuff from old hard drive. I have ableton and some other critical programs loaded on it curently.
I don't like the new interface of CCC and i havent used superduper lately, i believe they use apples restore command under the hood?
What would you geniuses would do if you want a perfect clone?

Time machine restore?
I've used Carbon Copy Cloner as well in the past and it seemed to work just fine..
So I'd either do a Time Machine restore or use CCC..

Best way to clone Tiger before installing Leopard

OK, so I am ready to take the plunge. I want to back up my Tiger HD before installing Leopard but have some confusion about the best way to do this. I have Super Duper and a FireWire LaCie external HD with sufficient space to clone my Tiger system. However, there are other files on the LaCie and it is not partitioned. If I clone the Tiger HD to the LaCie, are all the other files going to be erased? Will the clone be bootable? Or should I transfer the files from the LaCie first, erase it, partition and reinstall the files on one partition and the Tiger HD on the other? Or should I clone to a disk image?
Thanks in advance.
ph

pomme-homme wrote:
OK, so I am ready to take the plunge. I want to back up my Tiger HD before installing Leopard but have some confusion about the best way to do this. I have Super Duper and a FireWire LaCie external HD with sufficient space to clone my Tiger system. However, there are other files on the LaCie and it is not partitioned. If I clone the Tiger HD to the LaCie, are all the other files going to be erased?
yes.
Will the clone be bootable?
yes.
Or should I transfer the files from the LaCie first, erase it, partition and reinstall the files on one partition and the Tiger HD on the other?
that's one option. If you have enough space on the drive you can partition it on the fly without erasing the stuff first. I'm not sure if Tiger's disk utility can do that but leopard's certainly can. you can therefore boot from the leopard install DVd and do it from disk utility there.
Thanks in advance.
ph

Best way to replace Hard Drive?

Hi,
I am ready to replace my hard drive and get a Solid State Drive.
What is the best way to transfer the contents from the old hard drive to the new?
Except from Time Machine (I guess you can do this with time machine... not sure), does Leopard offers any other utility?
Thanks

xsi wrote:
Hi,
I am ready to replace my hard drive and get a Solid State Drive.
What is the best way to transfer the contents from the old hard drive to the new?
Except from Time Machine (I guess you can do this with time machine... not sure), does Leopard offers any other utility?
Thanks
There are at least two free utilities for cloning your HD.
CCC and SuperDuper!
Make a bootable clone of your HD and test it.
Then swap your HDs and reclone the new HD from the clone.
It's that simple, and relatively fast and, unlike TM, you can test the clone beforehand.
CCC
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
SuperDuper!
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

Best way to backup 2nd Drive [Bootcamp/VMware/Win7] to Time Capsule

I have a mac pro with 2 drives - main drive 1 running os x 10.6.8 and drive 2 boot camp partitioned vmware fusion 3.1.3 running windows 7 - what is the best way to backup drive 2 to my time capsule?
Sorry if this has been answered many times, but I have looked quite a bit.
From what I can tell, it's best to shut vmware down and manually back-up to time capsule.
Any advice much appreciated. Thanks!

You don't need to do it that often.. once a quarter or twice a year is probably enough unless you are really using the drive alot.. remember you still have to have a full backup from inside windows anyway.. before the incremental can work..
You can indeed store the backup on the TC.. mixing data .. as far as TC is concerned it is just a file.. and TM backups can have consequences.. you might want to create a disk image to separate them.
http://pondini.org/TM/TCQ3.html
As long as you have lots of space it is probably not a big issue or use USB drive.
Whatever you do create a directory for the clone backup..
Create the clone.. and then from inside windows use a suitable backup.. I use macrium reflect .. free version does a full disk image.. but remember this is inside a vm so I am not sure you can restore whole disk from it..
Paid version does incremental but there are loads of backup software you can find.
That can also backup to the TC.. watch your total disk usage and maybe consider using a USB drive.

Hi, we need to create the test environment from our production for oracle AP Imaging. we have soa,ipm,ucm and capture managed servers in our weblogic. can anyone tell me what is the best way to clone the environment, can I just tar the weblogic file syste

Hi, we need to create the test environment from our production for oracle AP Imaging. we have soa,ipm,ucm and capture managed servers in our weblogic..
Can anyone tell me what is the best way to cloning the application from different environment, the test and production are in different physical server.
Can I just tar the weblogic file system and untar it to the new server and make the necessary changes?
Can anyone share their experiences and how to with me?
Thank in advance.
Katherine

Hi Katherine,
yes and no . You need as well weblogic + soa files as the database schemas (soa_infra, mds...).
Please refer to the AMIS Blog: https://technology.amis.nl/2011/08/11/clone-your-oracle-fmw-soa-suite-11g/
HTH
Borys

What is the best way to clone my iPad 2?

We are currently rolling out 30 new iPad2s in our classrooms. What is the best way to customize/confgure/clone 1 iPad and roll out those settings to the remaining iPads?
I've tried using the backup and restore in iTunes however, I'm running in to the following issues:
Backup has iOS 4.3.5, but when I restore from backup, it has iOS 4.3.3
Backup has Facetime turned OFF, but when I restore from backup, it has Facetime turned ON.

Thanks for the replies.
I actually called apple support and the only response was to turn off the camera AND FaceTime in restrictions. Meantime I've used a combination of the BACKUP and RESTORE FROM BACK UP and iPHONE CONFIGURATION UTILITY (enterprise support). Unfortunately there is no one simple solution.
Example:
iTunes backup and restore won't disable FaceTime, but using configuration profiles will.
iTunes backup and restore let's you set a passcode for restrictions while allowing individuals to still change restrictions, but using configuration profiles will disable your selected restrictions.
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Especially for use with apps in education/classroom settings, I hope apple figures out a better enterprise solution.

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