Questions tagged [carbon-copy-cloner]
Carbon Copy Cloner is a Mac OS X application to make hard drive copy and clone disk.
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Carbon Copy Cloner folder backup versioning
Macos Sonoma v14.6.1
Carbon Copy Cloner v7.0.4
My pwSafe vault is stored on iCloud drive which enables access from my ios devices. Sweet.
I'm aware iCloud drive is backed-up, but that only gives me ...
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Why are Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) snapshots on my external APFS drive during First Aid?
I ran First Aid on an external APFS-formatted HDD using Disk Utility on macOS. During the process, I noticed that the logs mention snapshots with the prefix “com.bombich.ccc”. However, I’ve never ...
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What software backs up Mobile Documents with "optimized storage" on? and where are the iCloud Photos stored if not there?
This is a bit of an update as well as a question. It seems in the past that the only way to backup the iCloud files in the ~/Library/Mobile Documents folder was to have one Mac where "optimized ...
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Bootable External Drive Issue on Apple Silicon M2- Need Help Resolving
I've been encountering difficulties with my bootable external drive on my Apple Silicon M2.I can boot Successfully on M1 mac. I've tried creating the bootable drive using ASR, Carbon Copy Cloner, and ...
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Carbon Copy Cloner slow backups to Raspberry Pi NAS using SMB
I recently purchased Carbon Copy Cloner, and set it up to backup my Mac to an external SSD (Crucial X6, not especially high-performance). This works wonders, and I can finish an incremental backup in ~...
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Cloning a Windows 11 MacBook Pro Boot Camp partition
I recently got a new Lenovo dedicated gaming laptop and am wondering how to go about cloning, if possible, a Boot Camp Windows 11 partition. I have many files and games from my childhood I cannot find ...
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Using CCC 6, should I choose "Macintosh HD" or just my "Users/myusername" folder as source?
I just bought a new Mac Mini M1 running Ventura 13.6 (22G120) and want to setup Carbon Copy Cloner 6 to backup my computer to an external drive. My destination is a folder within said drive (as I have ...
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CCC Negotiated an Extremely Low Connection Speed
I’ve just migrated from a MBP 2014 to an MBA M2 and have attempted a backup for the first time, using the same external drive as before. Everything seems to work just fine except that I am wired that &...
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2013 iMac not booting off USB SSD clone
My 2013 27" on Catalina 10.15 is running out of disk space. The internal 3TB HDD is broken and I have kept it working by splitting the fusion drive and running it off the still functioning but ...
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Is there a simple way to put a Catalina user folder on a external volume and be able to clone/BU using TNM/CCC?
i was hoping to ask if there a simple way to put a Catalina user folder on a external volume and be able to clone/BU using Time machine or CarbonCopy Cloner etc
I read some comments about using the ...
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Data migration from 2015 BigSur MBP to 2021 M1 MBP
I want to migrate all data from my existing 2015 MBP that runs on Big Sur to the latest 2021 MBP with M1 Pro chip.
I want to be able to transfer all files and all settings to the new MBP and this ...
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Is it possible to clone a Mac directly to another Mac with Carbon Copy Cloner, or with other means?
Is it possible to clone a Mac directly to another Mac with Carbon Copy Cloner? I just need an answer for macOS 10.13.6. Both machines have exactly the same hardware and OS, except that one of them is ...
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Cloning a Catalina Intel Mac to a M1
We're using an Intel Mac mini running Catalina as a build machine, running a lot of specific and custom software.
We want to update that build machine to Big Sur in order to build apps for the latest ...
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Cant seem to file share between cloned drives
Im running two macs on my home office setup; a 2010 Macbook Pro and a 2011 Mac Mini. Both have been upgraded in the past with Crucial SSDs and for each I used the Carbon Copy software to clone the ...
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How to confirm that a cloned external hard drive is accurately cloned?
I've used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy one external SSD, which is currently about to die, to another one. I also have an online backup of the external drive, but I want to confirm that my cloned copy is ...
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How to get my passwords out of keychain access (and Firefox) from my CCC backup without a Mac?
My MacBook Pro (running 10.11.6) has a swollen battery, so I shut it down promptly and am sending it in for service. I have an up-to-date backup (a bootable backup) made with CarbonCopyCloner. The ...
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Macbook Late 2011. Swapped HDD for SDD. Now I have read-only access
I have a MacBook late 2011 and some time ago I replaced the HDD with a SSD for a Windows partition. The HDD with macOS went to the place where the CD Drive was. I had this configuration for some ...
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How to clone my HHD to SSD on my mid-2009 Macbook Pro [duplicate]
I'm trying to clone my 680GB HDD to a new 500GB SSD, trying EaseUS and Carbon Copy Cloner. The goal is to replace my HDD with the SSD, so I need to boot from it. There's only about 100GB of used disk ...
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Clone strategy - alternating partitions on USB drive?
I clone my Mac weekly to an external USB drive, with Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC).
Ideally, I'd use 2 separate USB drives, and alternate which I clone to each week.
But SSDs are expensive, so with just ...
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Displaying difference between APFS snapshots
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APFS is amazing... and infuriating with its lack of tools available.
What I'm trying to do is simply an equivalent of btrfs send --no-data -p /snapshots/parent /snapshots/child
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Can't open bootable copy of old Imac with Mountain Lion on New iMac with High Sierra
I made a bootable clone of my iMac with mountain lion using Carbon Copy Cloner.
This bootable clone opens fine on the old Mac.
I tried to open it on my newer Mac with High Sierra, but when I click on ...
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Install a new SSD but keep all the files and everything
I bought a new SSD for my Macbook Pro Retina 2014. I want to be able to insert the new SSD but keep all my files, setting and etc. I am not sure what to do how can I clone my existing SSD to the new ...
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Will Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) file/rsync-based clones to a "target disk mode" T2 MacBook work?
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I want to copy my entire OS/volume/disk (which is FileVault-ed) from on MacBook to another, whose volumes(s) are also FileVaulted. Assuming no OS incompatibilities between hardware, will a ...
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Issues with iCloud settings when cloning Mac hard drives
I'm cloning several Mac Minis from an original one. Somehow the iCloud settings get messed up every-time, and I have to go through the following:
Logout (it still maintains the username, but I get an ...
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LIGHTROOM: Missing files on ThunderBay Raid Drive after internal Hard Drive crash
I'm looking for options and would appreciate any ideas.
I'm a photographer w/a MacBook Pro & an OWC upgraded SSD internal drive that crashed. Lightroom is my main application and I use an OWC ...
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Very slow write performance 30min+ for 2GB - APFS?
Yesterday I have been working with Docker on my MacBook Pro 2012 which runs Mojave and the internal drive has been automatically converted to APFS (seems to be so for startvolumes since Mojave).
It ...
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Cloning macs within a context of no internet access
I'm shipping a project which my client (the army) wants to run on new MacMinis2019, which they, being less tech saavy consider a whole (the mac with all the software and configuration installed on it ...
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Restoring CCC or TimeCapsule from MacBookPro (2017) to new (2018)
I had a MacBook Pro 2017 stolen. Luckily I have 2 backups:
Time capsule (day old)
Carbon Copy Cloner USB hard drive (30 days old)
MacBook Pro 2017 was running Sierra (or High Sierra?) now I forgot
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Accidentally installed a system, how to completely remove it?
I made an error this weekend and am now not sure how to fix it. I was cloning my boot hard drive (Sierra) to an image file on an external hard drive, using Carbon Copy Cloner. No big deal, done it ...
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Using Carbon Copy Cloner 4 to create encrypted bootable HFS+ clones from APFS source
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According to the Carbon Copy Cloner documentation CCC4 cannot clone the Recovery HD from an APFS source to an HFS+ target:
Note: CCC v4 requires an HFS+ formatted source for creating ...
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Backup workflow from macOS to NAS?
I manage several Macs in an office which run a mixture of 10.10 - 10.13 (all latest sub versions).
I'm looking for a backup solution / workflow so I can set automated backups for each machine to a ...
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Do I need to target the root of the destination HDD when using carbon copy cloner?
I have a development machine that only uses about 50gb hdd disk.
I would like to create a backup of that disk and restore it in case my machine goes wrong.
I used to use carbon copy cloner to do it, ...
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CCC reporting physical problem with a drive volume even though the drive is working
I'm trying to create a read-only disk image archive of a High Sierra installation to later clone to other hard drives. I have tested the source drive and it is fine. No failed sectors or other ...
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Cloning HD in SSD
I have an old Mac that I’d like to upgrade by adding an SSD.
The problem is that the OS is really old (Snow Leopard, Mac Early 2008), so I’m really not sure if is the backup restore is going to work. ...
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Question about installing SSD into a Macbook Pro
I want to upgrade the hard drive in my 2012 Macbook Pro to an SSD. I have the parts, but had a question about how to clone the contents of my current drive so I can install it onto the SSD.
I've seen ...
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Clone the disk image of an iMac to a Mac Pro (or MacBook Pro)
I have about 20 computers at the office that I wanted to have identical installations. Some are iMacs, some are MacBook Pros, some are Mac Pros.
I have one install that I love. Has every piece of ...
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Setting up different passwords for Filevault 2 and my user account
I'm currently setting up Carbon Copy Cloner to create a backup clone of my SSD. I'd like to be able to store the cloned drive's Filevault 2 password in the keychain so CCC can access it to ...
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What actions create cloned files on APFS volumes?
As you know, High Sierra (HS) includes a feature called “file cloning.” [EDITORIAL NOTE: Initially I'd written that, based on my discussion with the developer, I gathered Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) ...
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Can a logged in user restore its ~/Library folder from a Time Machine backup made with a previous version of the OS?
The full story: I have a clone of my old MBP drive which had Yosemite installed. I now have a new MBP with macOS Sierra on it. I tried to transfer the data from my old Mac to the new one using ...
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What is wrong with this drive?
I've tried to create this partition and use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy over everything from one Mac. However, it shows this error on another Mac when I launch Disk Utility and try to repair it:
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Migration Assistant from Carbon Copy backup?
My Mac has died and I'm considering whether to fix and restore to the same hardware or get a new one and import data.
The TL;DR: Do you know if Migration Assistant will take a bootable external disk ...
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New Macbook Pro 2017 won't boot from USB drive
I have a new Macbook Pro 2017 (No touch bar) that will not boot from an external USB-C SSD drive. I cloned a 2012 Macbook air using Carbon Copy Cloner onto the drive and I have confirmed that the ...
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When backing up many Macs to one hard drive, must the hard drive be partitioned for each Mac?
I'm getting a 5TB drive which I plan on using for backing up all my media, and my OS/config for my machines. The backup tool is Carbon Copy Cloner. I currently have two Macs but may get a third one ...
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How to deal with Carbon Copy Cloner backing up various OS versions of a given machine
I've been backing up my MacBook Pro for 5 years using Carbon Copy Cloner. The full backup is on a partition of an external hard drive and there is a folder called _CCC_Archives which I believe stores ...
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Can CCC clone a Fusion drive and restore it to a new SSD?
I have a 2012 Mac Mini with a 1TB Fusion drive. The noise of the spinning disk has been increasing lately and I want to replace it with a Crucial MX300 1TB SSD.
Carbon Copy Cloner makes a complete ...
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How to install or port data to a Fusion / Hybrid / SSHD drive
I have a late 2012 Mac mini that came with a 500 GB HDD installed from the factory. It's almost full so I want to upgrade it to a 1 TB Fusion Drive, as the cost for a 1 TB SSD is still steep. The Mac ...
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Back up Mac using CarbonCopyCloner with command line only?
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I never expected to have only command line access to my Mac, but the day has arrived! :) Due to a video card problem, any attempt to boot the normal OS or recovery partition results in ...
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Copy to same drive or separate drive?
Is there a benefit to copying (with Carbon Copy Cloner) large amounts of data (400 GB) from one physical drive to another (both WD My Passport external USB 3.0 HDD), rather than to a separate ...
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Carbon Copy Cloner shell script for ejecting the source drive
I created a backup system for a friend, using Carbon Copy Cloner. The system has been up and running since January, but it needs regular intervention.
The main problem is that external hard drives ...
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Can I clone a MacBook to another one and work with both without annoyances?
I have an old MacBook MacBook4,1 (named Mac1) under Lion. My daughter is working with it.
I have just bought another old MacBook2,1 (named Mac2) which is under Snow Leopard and that I need to ...
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