How To Back Up Your Mac: Carbon Copy Cloner

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[aylesburyboi]

Is there another way to back up my Macintosh HD to an external drive? as my iMac will not boot and I cannot access my account to download this program..

[MyTechMethods]

@aylesburyboi If you are unable to boot into the Mac that you want to back up, you could try taking it into an Apple Store and have them do it (for a fee possibly) or manually open up your Mac, take the hard drive out then install it on another computer as a slave drive and back up the data by copying it to another hard drive.

[bassmancyx1]

I apologize if this has been asked already. I have an iMac with a 1TB hard drive and a 1TB external drive that holds exclusively video. I manually back them BOTH up on a 2TB external drive. My ideal scenario is to use CCC to make a bootable backup of my Mac HD, but also be able to back up the 1TB video drive on that SAME 2TB backup drive. Will one interfere with the other? Or will I not be able to boot this drive if the video drive contents are on there in addition to the Mad HD backup?

[MyTechMethods]

@bassmancyx1 CCC should be able to do this as long as you assign it 2 different tasks (1 task to backup the iMac internal drive and 1 task that backs up the external drive). You will also have to split your 2TB backup drive into 2 separate partitions, using 1TB on each partition.

[TekTut0rials]

Yeah but does it make is like a disk image or does it just copy the files and folers to the external hard drive. I would rather it just make a disc image of it.

[MyTechMethods]

@TekTut0rials CCC copies the data, but it also lets you make the drive bootable which is similar to having a disk image of your Source disk ready.

[Kidsonss]

How would one go about cloning an internal 320gb hard drive that was to be replaced by a new 1tb hard drive?

[MyTechMethods]

@CHENCXR It does both. It gives you an option of keeping files on the Backup drive that do not exist on the Source drive each time you backup your data.

[CHENCXR]

Does Carbon Copy Cloner delete all data on the backup drive and then copy the backup over, or does it keep the original files?