![]() For the internal one, that was created by the installation of Catalina. One of those partitions was the Recovery one. It did find every partition on the internal SSD (including the eDrive I created yesterday (via TechTool Pro), and all SuperDuper! partitions on the both partitions on the external SSD. The external drive is connected to the Mini via a USB 3.1 cable. The third partition, formatted as Mac OS Extended, just contains various "kinds" of file (Photos, Documents, Movies, TV series, etc.). Those backups are the last Mojave backups for each machine (the MacBook Air is also now running OS 10.15.2). It has 3 partitions: two of them are APFS formatted, and contain SuperDuper! backups made yesterday for each of my Macs (the mini, and a mid 2017 MacBook Air with a 252 gig SSD and 8 gig of Ram). A Samsung 850 Pro 512 gig SSD enclosed in an Orico enclosure. It was installed yesterday, via a clean, fresh installation.Ģ. A late 2012 Mac Mini with a 256 gig Samsung 840 Pro SSD, 8 gig of Ram, running the latest version of Catalina, OS 10.15.2. OK, I made some misstatements about EtreCheck.ġ. I guess the only way to confirm this is when booting from the external device, hold down the Command and R keys together. Yet, EtreCheck does show the Recovery partition on the external device (via SuperDuper!), but cannot "see/detect" the eDrive partition on the internal drive. And for the external SSD, for the SuperDuper! (Mojave) backup, it shows the primary partition, and then it says "3 not mounted".įor the System Report, and in my case, for the internal drive, it shows the "main" Catalina partition, the EFI partition (gets created by the installation of the OS), and the eDrive partition I created via TechTool Pro. I'm guessing those 2 are the Recovery partition, and the eDrive. For Disk Utility, on the internal SSD, it shows the "primary" Catalina partition, the "Data" partition, the VM partition, and then it says "2 not mounted". ![]() Similarly, cannot see any additional partitions on my external SSD. The Recovery Partition on the internal device can not be "seen" via the System Report (after clicking on the Apple icon in the upper left corner, then selecting "About This Mac", then clicking on "System Report", and finally selecting "SATA/SATAExpress"), nor by Disk Utility. So in short - after all this stuffing about, there appears to be little difference between the two programs, except the "look and feel", and that CCC has a little icon in the task bar along the top to remind me it's there.Click to expand.You know, it's really funny about that. I can back up fine to the drives in the Dual Bay, just can't boot from it. I'm also buying what I hope is a compatible USB-3 enclosure to keep as the boot drive when I need it. ![]() Drives that look like they may be failing - do. A fast 7200 for the primary drive, maybe even a hybrid? can't afford a suitable size SSD, and a second 2TB 5400 drive to put in the "lower" position when I replace the main HDD, which I will. So now in the process of buying two new hard drives. Which worked - it took 6 hours, but it worked!! So I'm asking myself - why am I bothering with Drive Cloners at all? Boot from Recovery Partition, Format Drive, Restore from TimeMachine. So to do a restore, I had to do it the old way. BUT - I can't boot from it, so to my discovery, when trying to boot from the CCC or SD Clone - the system couldn't see the drive. I can also use it as a dual caddy USB drive bay. I can clone drives in standalone - no software, outside of the computer. The thing you have to watch with booting from your Cloned drive, is make sure you have an enclosure for the drive that OS X recognises. The other app I'm using in support is SMARTReporter v3.1.5, which gives me reports on the physical status of the drives as well as other stuff and just runs in the background nicely. So maybe I'll register that as well when the trial expires. "Īnyway - CCC does do the complete thing, and backing up the Recovery partition makes sense. "Once there, delete appfirewall.log, empty your trash and continue a "Backup - all files" with Smart Update (you seem to be using Copy Newer, which won't be restorable in full). so this is the part of the reply I am talking about. I was seeing I/O Errors, and the Backup was failing. It's not mentioned in the docs that I can see. I'm still not sure what they meant by that. I also received a note from the SD team, to use SmartBackup, as restoration works better with this. SD still seems a bit like it's written by programmers for programmers. I also installed Carbon Copy Clone for comparison.Īs for usability and interface, I find CCC to be the "nicer looking" interface. I have a registered copy of SuperDuper installed, and it works fine in backing up. 1TB drive, i7 CPU, and with only two weeks left in new warranty, it's throwing I/O errors. I'm running 10.xxx Yosemite on a Mac Mini, 16GB Ram.
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