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Ask TUAW Video Edition: Cloning Data

by Justin Esgar Apr 12th 2011 at 11:30AM

ask tuaw videoDouglas asks how to upgrade his hard drive and clone his Mac and Bootcamp data to the new one. We discuss new hard drives, enclosures, and cloning processes.

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Any questions, please leave them in the comments or email us! Read on for the video.



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Douglas asks how to upgrade his hard drive and clone his Mac and Bootcamp data to the new one. We discuss new hard drives, enclosures,...
 

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Oblyvion

I've only ever used Carbon Copy Cloner, but it was completely hitch-free and super-easy. With that and the fact that it's 100% free, I say look no further.

April 12 2011 at 6:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Parry

Is there something wrong with using the "Restore" tab from Disk Utility? It always works for me.

April 12 2011 at 3:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stan

You don't need any third-party software to clone a drive. You can do it from Terminal:

sudo ditto -xV / /Volumes/NewDrive

When that finishes, your new drive will be an exact bootable clone of your internal drive.

April 12 2011 at 2:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Justin Esgar

Stan - great advice, but not everyone is comfortable with terminal. Also, ditto won't copy the Bootcamp partition either.

Justin

April 12 2011 at 2:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Paul

I have used both SuperDuper and Carbon Clone.

Both work, but Carbon Copy Cloner is my favorite because of
dependability and ease of use.

April 12 2011 at 1:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Peter Payne

I am a fan of SuperDuper, but the dev has said it is "inelegant" to clone Boot Camp partitions. I say bleah, give me a way to completely clone a disk, damn it.

April 12 2011 at 12:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SSteve

I spend a lot of time in Terminal so I use asr, the command-line tool that comes with OS X.

sudo asr restore --verbose --source /Volumes/ --target /Volumes/ --erase

April 12 2011 at 12:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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SSteve

I used angle brackets to enclose the disk names and they were removed from my comment. Should be:

sudo asr restore --verbose --source /Volumes/diskname --target /Volumes/diskname --erase

April 12 2011 at 12:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Justin Esgar

Steve - great Terminal tip. But I don't believe ASR will restore a bootcamp partition - will work great going for his Mac partition though.

Thanks!
Justin

April 12 2011 at 12:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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