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CarbonCopyCloner can also clone certain folders and has a nice GUI.
(Internally it works with rsync, so you could also use this directly, it comes preinstalled. Like: rsync -av /source/folder/ /dest/folder/)
If you need a GUI to rsync then these two options could help :
- Carbon Copy Cloner (free trial period)
- arRsync (which you have found is great)
As others have mentioned the command line is also a good option in that you will be able to disable some of the arguments which are probably not supported on network volumes. Just use the following for the man page on rsync :
$ man rsync
I would use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the old hard drive image onto the new hard drive. If you haven't used it before, it's fairly simple to use. Plus, the developer has extensive instructions on his site. http://bombich.com/download
For cloning people seem to like both SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner. Both have a free trial period if you don't want to buy a license, but either are likely superior to Time Machine for doing serious backups (+ cloning).
You're gonna have a hard time finding an official Apple link since they distribute it from the Mac App Store and spit out the most updated OS your system can run.
10.10.3 is current.
Of course I haven't read or heard the same "bad things" you did, and maybe whatever you're developing does have a specific need that breaks in 10.10.3 and you have proof. If that's the case your best bet is to acquire 10.10 vanilla by searching your favorite file sharing service. It's a free upgrade, so "pirating" is less morally wrong and more just breaking the EULA.
That said, if there's not some weird bug for your specific IDE, 3 updates in the OS is gonna be more stable than when Yose launched in my opinion, especially with the pace they're making new releases at. WWDC is like 6 weeks away (AKA we're gonna see a preview of the next OS pretty soon, there probably aren't too many more maintenance updates in Yose's future)
If you're developing in Xcode, I'd imagine you'd want the most updated software...
If you're not doing development in Xcode I'd make the same argument, but also why are upgrading in the first place?
Lastly, if you decide to take my advice but are still concerned, you could always clone your system as it is now (I like CCC), do your upgrade, test everything out and if stuff is broken restore from your clone? I wouldn't rely on just a time machine since you'll want to restore the entire OS and time machine backups aren't gonna include that since you can use Internet recovery/install media to reinstall the OS.
There is software for backing up drives (such as Carbon Copy Cloner). But I'm willing to say that investing in something like that is probably overkill. Copying the contents of the existing external drives to a blank external drive is as simple as "select all, copy, and paste" in the Finder (Mac OS X's equivalent of Windows Explorer). Is there some other consideration I'm not thinking of that your or your step-dad think would be better served by some dedicated backup software?
If you have an existing Mac you can clone the boot drive to the laptop's hard drive in an external enclosure and then re-install the hard drive into the laptop. That's what I've done when swapping from HDDs to SSDs in both of my Mac laptops. First time I did it I used this guide from Lifehacker, which mentions using Carbon Copy Cloner to migrate OS/data to the new drive.
Good luck!
Yes, and without any additional fiddling. You're hooking up to the same cabling the optical was attached to, so it's an automatic recognition.
My big fear was that I was going to need to back up my iTunes drive separately, but both drives were backed up via Time Machine, though I had to do a separate clone via Carbon Copy Cloner. (And FWIW, CCC is an easy way to clone your boot drive to the new SSD, then do the switch-out/install.)
First, back up your current drive. After that's done, clone your drive using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper, then reinstall UniBeast onto the new drive. You can uncheck some user folders and applications if they'd take up too much space on the SSD, but don't mess with the system files.
I haven't tried this before, but you could try cloning your Mavericks installation to your hackintosh's freshly wiped boot drive using Carbon Copy Cloner on your real Mac. Then, boot to that drive using your real Mac, install clover directly, try to pre-configure your config.plist, pop that drive back into your Hackintosh and skip the installation process altogether?
I just did this a couple weeks ago. I ordered this enclosure from amazon, put my SSD into it and plugged it into my MBP. (You might even be able to get a less expensive enclosure because you could get a USB 2.0 one)
Then, open disk utility, find the drive you plugged in, and format it for Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Then download Carbon Copy Cloner. You can use the free trial to do what you need to do. The program will ask you what drive you want to copy, and you can point to your newly formatted drive as the destination for the copy. Note this may take a while depending on the size of the drive you're copying and because you're doing it over USB 2.0. I left mine to clone over night and it was fine.
Finally, you want to make sure everything is good before opening up and swapping drives. Shut down your computer. Turn it on while holding the option key, and select the SSD to boot from. Make sure it boots, and try to open a couple things just to make sure everything is working like you think it should.
Done! Now, shut it back down, swap out your drives and you'll have what feels like a brand new MBP! Good luck!
I'm doing a disk recovery now for a client. The disk has a physical electromagnetic problem that triggers the SMART alerts every few minutes, and Disk Utility can't fix it, but I've been able to recover everything on it using Data Rescue 4.
Alternatively, if you can afford Carbon Copy Cloner (you might be able to recover using the free trial, so try that first before buying), it will clone your drive much faster than Time Machine will.
WHATEVER YOU DO, use the drive as little as possible. Assemble the software tools you need to recover your data and then launch the recovery process all at once. The reason for this is that if the drive is about to physically fail, you don't have many attempts before it actually does, so every action counts.
http://rolfje.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/a-bigger-timemachine-without-changing-history/ would this be a viable option for my situation?
According to the CCC FAQ: It says that it can't do it, but gave another option but I am not sure if that does what I am looking to do.
http://bombich.com/kb/ccc4/can-i-use-carbon-copy-cloner-clone-time-machine-backup
The best way I can recommend is a program called SuperDuper!
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
I've used it myself many times across the past, hell, more than ten years. It's reliable.
It mainly uses low-level tools that already exist in the OS but are difficult to use on your own.
There's another option too, called Carbon Copy Cloner. Carbon copy as in from an ancient typewriter, not the more recent part of OS X (always confusing).
Both have excellent reputations. Both can entirely clone your startup drive to another hard drive that also boots.
I've used SuperDuper more in the past since it's free for simple usage.
I'm partial to using Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my drives (it even lets me clone the drive I'm booted into, which is something you might find surprising if you ever deal with Disk Utility).
The Time Machine restoration should be as seamless, but it will take longer.
You can use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! and back up to a sparseimage disk image file. That would give you an image of the entire disk that you could restore and boot from, but you won't have the retention time that TM gives you.
You might consider a combination of the above for a bootable backup once per week or two (and just before OS updates/major changes), and a nightly sync of your /Users folder to a folder on the NAS using something like ChronoSync with the options set for archiving of changed files.
Between the two of them you'll get the abilities TM provides: Bare-metal restore to a bootable state, plus some measure of retention time.
Before embarking on such an endeavor, I would make a clone backup. Get a 1TB USB and use CCC to make a fully bootable copy of your drive. Verify that it can boot to the backup. Then you're free to do whatever you like to the system. You can always clone the old system and data back no matter what happens.
Going from Wikipedia, SATA 1 really holds you back: as I calculated it, throughput for data transfer is capped at ~179 MB, whereas Disk can go up to 200 MB, and SSD from 200MB and beyond. You really don't need a Samsung 850, I think a 750 would be fine (I'd double check to see if it's compatible with mbp 2008), or the owc drives.
There are lots of tangible benefits despite using SATA I due to SSD being better at random access & having lower latency. I'd say boot will improve, and the system will generally feel faster than it used to. From wikipedia, it seems that power will be reduced to, so longer battery life (can't say for sure how much longer though).
There's programs like Carbon Copy Cloner which, though not free, make it really easy to clone disks. I'd definitely research more and look up youtube videos though.
Good luck!
No idea if what you're suggesting works, but I can tell what definitely will: Carbon Copy Cloner.
I've never tried it on a drive with a Bootcamp partition and I'm abroad so I can't test it on my Mac, but worse case scenario, you'll have to add Winclone to the mix.
That's good news. So the problem most likely lies somewhere in your ~/Library folder. Next steps:
- Do a full backup using Carbon Copy Cloner or a similar tool (http://bombich.com/)
- Create a Library-Backup folder, then move everything from your regular ~/Library folder to it, restart. Things should be fine now. Move half of it back, and depending whether things are fine or bad, move more things back or less, until you have tracked down the problem file or files. This might need some note taking, an hour or so and quite a few restarts. (You could also take a few guesses to speed things up. It's probably something in ~/Library/Caches or some of the most recently changed files in ~/Library/Preferences).
- Once you have found the file, either move everything back and trash the problem file directly (if you are sure you did not delete anything by mistake), or restore from the backup then trash the problem file. Try to find out what that file did and redo what you just deleted (like if you deleted a finder prefs file this will set all your finder settings back to the default, and if you changed them, you need to change them back to your preferred settings).
Good luck! :-)
No worries! I started there too.
My understanding of SSDT/DSDT files is that they're essentially a roadmap of your hardware components along with extra information about what they're capable of, so that Mac OS X can take full advantage of them. With UEFI motherboards, they're not really necessary since OS X is capable of using EFI to map most things out automatically. You would edit your files to tell OS X to ignore the graphics card on the map that was generated, defaulting to your integrated graphics instead. With the right patches, it can also be used to replace the job of some of the extra kexts you've likely installed, which gives you a more native-like experience. On my old Vostro 400 machine, it took me 5-6 hours to figure out how to patch the audio correctly, but I never again had to deal with problems with Voodoo HDA or kexts failing after a system upgrade.
I wouldn't really recommend it to a newb since you can easily confuse your OS X installation and have to start over from square one (it won't damage your hardware or impact Windows at all though).
As for backups, Time Machine will get you back to a working state if you used Unibeast and have an /Extras/ folder on your drive. If you used Clover instead, I do not believe Time Machine backs up the EFI/ESP partition that's required. Instead, Carbon Copy Cloner is capable of a full drive bootable backup.
Once you're happy with your OS X setup, I'd recommend making an image file of your drive using Carbon Copy Cloner and stash it away somewhere to speed up the reinstallation process if you need it.
I can't for the life of me imagine why a failed download would cause an issue, unless it coincidentally pushed an already failing disk over the edge.
You might want to try booting the laptop in Target Disk Mode and connecting it to another Mac first, to see if you can recover files. Depending what resources you have available, maybe do a complete clone onto an external drive. (I've always been a computer geek, so "Oh pop on an external drive and make a clone" is just a matter of "well, which of my 3 external drives with 600GB free do I want to use this time?", but I know that's not realistic for normal people). Hopefully it at least allows you to make a backup of your research materials, if you haven't already.
If you make a bootable Yosemite installer you ought to be able to run disk utility. If the disk is OK, it's just the OS that got corrupted, in which case you should be able to continue with installing Yosemite.
>Can I selectively transfer this application and all its components to my new Mac via Migration Assistant?
As far as I know, no, you can't.
Migration assistant only offers "applications" (as a whole folder) as far as options. You either transfer them or you don't, but you don't get to pick the ones you want to transfer.
You might however be able to do this using Carbon Copy Cloner.
And for that worry I have three words for you:
Carbon Copy Cloner it has saved my ass so many times with hard drives. Just saying my game may not last forever but I'm not worried, especially if they allow backwards capability on the PS5 just redownload them. ;-)
Bombich is the company that makes CCC; it's not a separate app. Time Machine isn't just for new and/or different installs, it's a general back-up tool that can also be used to roll back changes to your currently installed OS. Both can be used to migrate user and system data to a new HDD or system.
Probably going to have to use something like Carbon Copy Cloner, or maybe the Terminal command 'sudo cp'. I had the same problem once, but I can't remember how exactly I got around it.
Carbon Copy Cloner. Free, fully-functional 30 day trial. It should copy everything, but you may as well compare the copied user folder to the original to make sure.
Don't wipe the old boot drive, keep it as a backup.
On a Mac, reinstalling the OS is the nuclear option. I have only had to do it twice, and those times were due to failing hard drives (Time Machine backups FTW).
In Disk Utility, verify the startup disk. If it finds errors, you'll probably need to boot from another volume to repair them. If Disk Utility can't fix them, you'll need something like Diskwarrior.
Download and reinstall the combo update for the OS version she's running, i.e. if she's running 10.5.8 then download the 10.5.8 Combo updater from Apple and reapply it over what's there.
Once that's done, download Cocktail and run the Pilot suite. Have the machine reboot afterward.
If you notice no improvement after doing these things, then I would clone the machine to an external drive using Carbon Copy Cloner, and then wipe the drive and install a fresh copy of the OS. When asked by the setup assistant if you want to migrate data from an existing Mac or hard drive, point it to the cloned copy. It will copy back all your apps and data. After that, run Software Update until it gets all caught up again.
I have never had to reinstall the OS and all the apps manually on a Mac. The clone-nuke-reinstall-migrate-update method has always worked for me.