Tiger and Carbon Copy Cloner
For those of you, who, as I do, know the joy of backing up your digital life with Carbon Copy Cloner, I've spotted some news that bears some consideration before upgrading to Tiger. In this discussion thread, Mike Bombich, the creator of Carbon Copy Cloner (or CCC for short), notes: "Apple has broken all of my apps under Tiger. Its
a really stupid, simple little bug that affects authentication. I'll
fix my apps as soon as possible but I'm hoping Apple will fix the bug."So, you can still create a fully bootable copy of your current set up on an external drive using CCC before you update to Tiger, and if you hate Tiger, you can boot from that external drive and reclone your pre-Tiger drive back over to your primary drive; however, once you've upgraded, you're going to be stuck without your most beloved backup solution until either Apple or Bombich get around to fixing this authentication bug.
Consider my pre-Tiger buzz officially killed.
[via Accelerate Your Mac]
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For those of you, who, as I do, know the joy of backing up your digital life with Carbon Copy Cloner, I've spotted some news that bears...
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Now CCC supports Tiger.
August 16 2005 at 12:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAh bullshit, I use a seperate partition/OS install to run CCC from to clone my main OS from. Works like a champ everytime, and I'll have a functional partition of 10.3 to sort out any weirdness that comes along with 10.4 (and it will...).
April 26 2005 at 9:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThere's a workaround, C.K., which will allow the buzz to resume. In Terminal sudo open /path/to/CarbonCopyCloner.app will do it. I rely on CCC for backing up before (gasp!) an OS upgrade and other odd times, so this isn't going to be a major PITB for me. Bill
April 26 2005 at 10:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyChris, I think you have unconsciously pointed to why this aggravates me with your "bug in butt" phrasing. It is a "bug" problem. 1. B/c I use CCC religiously. 2. B/c it indicates that Tiger has bugs (the majority of which have all been nicely squashed in our current late iteration of Panther).
April 26 2005 at 6:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyoh don't get a bug up your butt. apps are broken all the time by changes in the OS. usually it's a short time to make a fix. and the changes made by apple are often for the better. I'm more concerned that Quicksilver be Tiger ready for launch.
April 25 2005 at 10:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replymy most beloved backup solution is actually sync x pro!
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