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If anything goes wrong, you can simply start up from the original system.
#CARBON COPY CLONER MAC 10.7.5 INSTALL#
You can safely install any system updates, drivers or programs on the Safety Clone, without worrying about what might happen to your system. With SuperDuper, you actually use the Safety Clone as your startup volume. In the past, you might have stored this copy away in a drawer as a backup.
I'll quote the bit about safety clones from the manual, given that you didn't read it.Ī Safety Clone is a bootable copy of your system, stored on another hard drive or partition, that shares your personal documents and data with the original. The safety clone thing is obviously causing a little confusion. You seem to want the backup all files option. Every Apple computer will come with this, so I don't need to take one machine out of a new shipment, set it up first the way I want, and then do a transfer I can take a pocket Firewire drive and hook it up directly and begin copying and transferring immediately with little to no lag time. This is preferable to me because it works out of the box without needing any network connections or separate devices to transfer CCC over. Select any drive in the list (I don't think it actually matters), then drag a drive or disk image (I haven't gotten it to work properly the way I wanted with disk images, but for pure CCC replacements, a disk-disk transfer is easiest) into the Source Field, your destination disk into the Destination field (surprise!), check the "Erase Destination" box (otherwise it won't use block-level copying), skip the cheksum if you want (though not recommended for the first few clones or any critical data/operation), and click the "Restore" button. I can barely move the program window around because it takes so long to register keyboard/mouse input.ĭisk Utility in Panther or greater has this built in feature, in the "Restore" tab. It sucks up MASSIVE system resources and more or less removes the interactive interface. Running CCC, in my lab-cloning experience, effectively prohibits multitasking on the machine in question (although making any changes to the filesystem during cloning is highly suspect in general). Both methods allow you to do a fresh installation and save you the hassle of downloading the 4GB again on each Mac.Actually, Disk Utility has a built-in block-level copy cloner that my tests have shown to be faster and more efficient than CCC. If you want to perform a clean install, or you plan on installing Lion on multiple Macs around your house, the easiest way is to just make an OS X Lion installer USB drive or boot DVD.
#CARBON COPY CLONER MAC 10.7.5 UPDATE#
This will update your existing 10.6.8 installation to 10.7 and takes about 20 to 40 minutes after it has been downloaded, depending on the speed of your hard drive.
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All you need to do is download it from the Mac App Store and launch the installer.ĭownload Mac OS X Lion from the Mac App Store
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Installing OS X Lion is very easy, in fact it’s probably the easiest major Mac OS X upgrade ever. Test that the backup is bootable and contains all files as expected.Do a complete backup of your existing hard drive by cloning it to an external hard drive, using something like the free tool Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper.You can force Time Machine to perform a backup manually just by right-clicking on the Time Machine drive and selecting “Backup Now”.Īlternatively, you can use a modernized approach to Gruber’s 4-step method:
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There are a few different approaches to data backups, the easiest method is to just use Time Machine and let it run a full backup. It’s always better to be safe than sorry. The likelihood of something going wrong during the upgrade is slim, but that’s not the point, you need to backup your data.
Most apps should be updated by their developers to support Lion, but you can also quickly check for incompatible apps by looking at System Profiler to identify any PowerPC applications – these won’t work. You’ll want to make sure that Lion supports the apps you are dependent on. Optional: Run Software Update again and get the latest “Migration Assistant” download if you plan to transfer data from a 10.6 Snow Leopard Mac to another Lion equipped MacĢ) Check for App Compatibility and Update Apps.Run Software Update and be updated to Mac OS X 10.6.8 including the Mac App Store.You won’t be able to upgrade an existing Mac to Lion without having access to the Mac App Store and 10.6.8: 1) Upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6.8 and get the Mac App Store Recommended Steps for Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7 Lionīefore anything else, verify that your Mac meets the OS X Lion system requirements, which in brief are a Core 2 Duo or higher processor and at least 2GB of RAM.