When the backup drive is full it automatically deletes the oldest backups. It keeps older revisions and deleted documents so it can restore them or an entire computer to any point in the past. Time Machine makes hourly snapshots of files and copies them to a backup drive. Especially if you're transferring from a failing disk.Time Machine is Apple’s built-in, set-it-and-forget-it backup system. And both have a significant higher failure rate than MA. But the average user really doesn't need them. And I don't know of another tool that does better.ĬCC and SD are fine tools too. But that's mostly developers stuff and needs a newer version anyway if you're migrating from Leopard to Snow, for instance. Only inconvenience is, if you've got a lot of system libraries from MacPorts or such. If you tell it to migrate data only, you'll get no settings or apps. You do need to choose the right way of migrating, of course.
I use Disk Utility and Migration Assistant most every week. That's a hassle Migration Assistant can't handle. And iLok licenses will need to be renewed. I won't say it never fails, but usually there are no problems. I've migrated hundreds of Adobe CS installations that way. Unless you have a really bad app, or you've messed with the receipts folder contents yourself. Everything it needs to know about apps is in the receipts folder. It'll basically just copy the user home area.Oh yes, it does. That won't copy larger applications such as Pro Tools or the Adobe suit properly because they install frameworks in the system area of the drive that aren't copied in a migration. Sorry for such a seemingly elemental hd maintenance/backup question. On a new drive, will I even be able to access the image that is stored on the external?Ĭan the 'disk image' from Disk Utility be all I need or will I still need to re-install everything from scratch by doing it this way? Basically, I would like to know how I can simply clone from old to new. Ideally, I'd like to just put in the new drive, and just have it ready to go with the OS as I have it now, Logic, all my programs, etc, without having to re-install the OS and then all the applications one at a time (admittedly, I can't find the startup OSX disc my Macbook came with, it's 3 years old and somehow lost it). Using Disk Utility, I can create an image of the current drive and store it on my external FW drive, which is great, I can do that, but then there was also mention of programs like Carbon Copy Cloner. I Googled and read a couple of different approaches. However, I was wondering what is the best way to go about transferring all the data on the current drive (assuming it doesn't crap out on me completely in the next few hours!) to the new drive? It's been grinding for a couple of days now and I'm about to go get a new hard drive tomorrow and install it myself. So my hard drive on my Macbook is dying a slow death.
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