In article <100220052250346893%SallyShears@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Sally Shears
<SallyShears@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article
> <eckleinspammenot-A32BAC.17352010022005@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Ernie Klein <eckleinspammenot@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > In article <100220051337282799%tmcdanel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > Terry McDanel <tmcdanel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > I tried cloner one laptop to another. It seemed to copy fine but
when
> > > i booted the newly cloned laptop the users were not listed. There
was
> > > only one user called Other... with some unidentifiable password.
When
> > > i T-booted it to look at the volume contents, i could see all the
> > > original users in the Users folder.
> >
> > I use CCC all the time at School and it works fine.
> >
> > It sounds like some of the files didn't get replaced by CCC. That can
> > happen if the HD contains old data when using CCC.
> >
> > I assume you are putting the 2nd laptop into the target mode and
> > connecting the two via a firewire cable. You should then use the disk
> > utility on the 1st laptop to erase the hard drive of the 2nd before
> > running CCC. I never get a 'clean' clone if I fail to do that (a 'rm
> > -rf * on the /Volumes/mounted_laptop' from the command line works
also,
> > but it is safer to use the disk util).
>
> CCC is great.
>
> But, I second Ernie's advice... I had problems or wound up with
> non-bootable disks when I didn't initialize the target disk before
> cloning.
>
> Here's another tip... Even if you have root enabled, run CCC from an
> admin user account. I had problems with permissions when I ran it once
> as root.
>
> -- Sally
Yes, wipe target drive and do not run as root.
For incemental backups I'm having great success with the cheapo apps
SuperDuper! and Synk.
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