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The developers of Carbon Copy Cloner announced new version utility that is fully compatible with macOS Sierra. This application allows you to clone a partition hard drive and store it separately, on another computer or external media. In the future, the Mac driver can quickly restore its system, with all applications, drivers, documents and other files.
The utility will also help with regular backups. To do this, simply select source disk, check/uncheck the boxes next to the required elements and indicate the location where the copying will be made. All these operations can be carried out even from another PC over the network. Now, in the event of data corruption, equipment failure or any other disaster, it will be very easy to restore all information.
Carbon Copy Cloner allows you to create a full or partial clone of your Mac, moving it to another drive or saving it as a .dmg (disk image).
Step 1: Download Carbon Copy Cloner, run the application.
Step 2: Click the Source button and select Macintosh SSD.
Step 3: Now you need to specify the copy format by clicking the button in the Destination section.
Step 4: Select New disk image. Select the folder where your disk image will be stored.
If you need an image that you can modify, in the Image Format item, specify read/write sparse disk image. This will create a .sparseimage file. Otherwise, the utility will create a read-only dmg image. Optionally select encryption. Click OK.
Step 5: Click the Clone button to start creating a backup.
Step 6: The program will warn you that you will not be able to boot from the specified disk. Click Continue Anyway.
Step 7: After a few hours (depending on the amount of data), an image of your entire Mac disk will be created.
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The developers of Carbon Copy Cloner have announced a new version of the utility that is fully compatible with macOS Sierra. This application allows you to clone hard section disk and store it separately, on another computer or external media. In the future, the Mac driver can quickly restore its system, with all applications, drivers, documents and other files.
The utility will also help with regular backups. To do this, simply select the source disk, check/uncheck the boxes next to the necessary elements and indicate the location where the copying will be made. All these operations can be carried out even from another PC over the network. Now, in the event of data corruption, equipment failure or any other disaster, it will be very easy to restore all information.
Carbon Copy Cloner allows you to create a full or partial clone of your Mac, moving it to another drive or saving it as a .dmg (disk image).
Step 1: Download Carbon Copy Cloner, run the application.
Step 2: Click the Source button and select Macintosh SSD.
Step 3: Now you need to specify the copy format by clicking the button in the Destination section.
Step 4: Select New disk image. Select the folder where your disk image will be stored.
If you need an image that you can modify, in the Image Format item, specify read/write sparse disk image. This will create a .sparseimage file. Otherwise, the utility will create a read-only dmg image. Optionally select encryption. Click OK.
Step 5: Click the Clone button to start creating a backup.
Step 6: The program will warn you that you will not be able to boot from the specified disk. Click Continue Anyway.
Step 7: After a few hours (depending on the amount of data), an image of your entire Mac disk will be created.
The problem of data loss was relevant 10 years ago, it is now and will be in the future. Lose everything necessary information Can different ways: damage the media due to infection with viruses or accidentally delete them. There are not many ways to restore information, and restoring from a backup is considered the most reliable. What's the point - you insure yourself and do backup copy necessary data, when everything is fine with it, but when an unexpected problem occurs, you simply restore it from a backup copy. Don't think that creating backups is hard handmade, not at all, today there are quite a lot of programs that will do everything for you; once you set up such a program, you can forget about it and remember only when you need to restore something. Already built into Mac OS similar program For Reserve copy data and it is called - Time Machine.
In order to perform a backup (it is also called backup/backup) with using Time Machine requires OS X 10.5 Leopard or higher + external media where the backup will be performed (this can be external HDD, connected via USB, Thunderbolt or FireWire, network drive, AirPort Time Capsule or other similar Apple devices). Next, you need to decide on the size of the external media, the calculation is as follows: Space occupied on the hard drive MAC disk OS multiplied by two, i.e. If you have 50 GB of disk space, then you only need to allocate 100 GB of space for backup. To see how much space you have on your hard drive, click “Finder” - “Programs” - “Utilities”.
Then select Disk Utility.
Select your main disk and below you will see information about how much disk space is occupied.
In my case, about 60 GB will be needed for backup. The backup process will look like this, the first backup will be “Full”, i.e. the entire OS along with the data and will take up the same amount of space as occupied by MAC OS; all subsequent backups will only back up changed data and will require significantly less space. Time Machine stores:
- Hourly copies for the last 24 hours;
- Daily backups for the last month;
- Weekly backups for all other months of work.
As soon as space is available external media will not be enough, old data will be overwritten by new ones.
From theory, I propose to move on to practice, connect the media on which you will make a backup, go to “Finder” - “Programs” - “Time Machine”.
In the window that opens, select "Select backup disk."
Select the media to back up to. If you wish, you can password-protect the backup; to do this, check the “Encrypt copies” checkbox. This procedure is optional and is only needed to protect your backup from outsiders.
If there is any information on this media, it must be transferred, since Time Machine will delete all information on it and format the media in Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
If necessary, you can exclude some folders from the backup; to do this, click the "Options" button, click on the "plus" and indicate those folders that do not need to be backed up.
No matter how well-functioning the Mac platform is, there is always the possibility that, due to various circumstances, the user may lose his data, often quite important. Most popular information backup tool Mac OS X is the Time Machine program that comes with the operating system. This fairly well-thought-out application, for all its advantages, has one noticeable drawback - the lack of advanced backup settings. The program indiscriminately copies everything that the user has on the disk. Meanwhile, the user does not always need to make a copy of the entire disk; quite often it is necessary to save only certain data. In this case they will help him alternative applications from third party developers, which includes a small utility from a development company with the funny name Grapefruit.
The multilingual interface of the program is localized in 15 languages, including Russian. It cannot be said that the Russian localization was done flawlessly - somewhere there are untranslated phrases, somewhere the translation was made without taking into account the peculiarities of the Russian language... However, all these translation shortcomings are found mainly in the program settings menu, where the user will look occasionally.
At the top of the program window there is a panel of program profiles, and on the left there is a list of groups of objects whose contents are supposed to be copied. The right side of the window displays a list of the contents of the selected group. At the very bottom of the window there is a very small toolbar, which also performs an information function, displaying information about the selected profile. Additionally, you can display a retractable panel that displays information from the log file of completed operations. The display of this panel is controlled using the corresponding button on the toolbar.
All copying and restoration operations are carried out using profiles that are created in a special section of the settings menu. Initially, iBackup already has two profiles, “ Recovery" And " Backup copy“, the purpose of each of which can be guessed by its name. To be able to literally make a backup copy of certain data with just one click of the mouse, the user will need to set up a profile, specify the folder where the data file should be saved and mark the objects that should be copied. We select the profile we need and, using the button Set…, set the folder to save the backup file. Now we need to select objects to backup. To do this, go to the list of groups and select one or another group, for example System parameters. After selecting a group, a list of objects included in this group will be shown on the right side of the application window. These are the ones that need to be marked so that the program knows what it should copy. If you want to copy all the objects included in the selected group, then you do not need to mark each element at all - just check the box next to the group name and all elements of the group will be automatically selected.
After completing the selection of the objects we need, use the button Create, located on the mini-toolbar - and the program will save a backup copy of the marked data in the specified folder. As you can see, the operation is quite simple and it can only be simpler than restoring data from a saved copy. To do this in the profile Recovery indicate the path to the file with the saved data, mark those elements of the list of its contents that we want to restore, and press the button Restore.
We have now described the operation of one-time data copying and recovery. If the operation of copying the same data is supposed to be performed more than once, then during the next copying session you will no longer have to mark the objects again - you will just need to select the desired profile and use the button Create.
The undoubted advantage of the utility is that if regular backups are necessary, all operations can be automated using the ability of the program to work according to a schedule. In accordance with additional settings profile specified in the tab Profiles program settings menu, iBackup can copy data to a specified folder daily, weekly or monthly, on specified days and times. Additionally, you can set the program to end after a copy operation, put the computer into sleep mode, or turn it off completely. Before the operation begins and after its completion, you can enable the execution of certain scripts.
iBackup can copy data not only to specific folder on the local hard drive, but also upload them to a specified AFP or SMB server (unfortunately, the program does not work with FTP servers), and automatically disconnect from it after the download is complete. To do this, the user needs to set the full path to the desired folder on the remote server in the corresponding tab of the settings menu.
Why do you need several profiles, you might say, because one profile for saving and one for recovery would be enough. Using several profiles opens up the possibility of storing data separately, for example, documents on a mobile device, photos on remote server etc.
Initially, iBackup operates with 10 groups ( system settings, program settings, desktop, home folder user, programs, documents, films, music, pictures, website), which contains potential objects for copying. It is quite clear that the list of groups is compiled based on the average Mac and it may not contain certain applications, data folders, etc., that are used on the computer specific user. That is why the developers have provided the ability for the user to add any other folders and objects to the general list.
As for the groups System parameters And Program settings, then the situation here is somewhat more complicated. The thing is that the utility can make a backup copy of the parameters only those Mac applications OS X or third parties that it knows about. The utility takes information about applications and where exactly the files with their parameters are located from the corresponding plugins. Current version iBackup can copy parameters 26 Mac OS X applications (including settings operating system) and more 260 programs and games from third-party developers, which is quite enough for the average user.
If the plugin for desired application is not in the list, then it is possible to create and upload your own plugin (a template for creating a plugin can be downloaded from the application developer’s website). The plugin is an XML file, analysis of the template of which showed that the only difficulty when creating a plugin will be the need to specify the paths to ALL settings files of the selected application, while knowing program code not required.
The program settings menu is quite simple and consists of three tabs, one of which ( Plugins), you have already met in the previous screenshot. Tab Are common is responsible for General settings iBackup (including launching the application at login and automatic check updates).
Overall, iBackup is a simple and convenient solution for backup and recovery of almost any data on the user’s hard drive. The function of launching the application upon login and the ability to work according to a schedule make the program’s operation almost invisible to the user, without diverting his attention to himself.
iBackup is completely free for private use and can be recommended to all those users who want to be able to selectively back up their data, with the ability to fine-tune to the level separate folder or file.