Using Carbon Copy Cloner

System Requirements:

Supported configurations:

Instructions:

You must be logged in as an administrator or root to use CCC.

  1. Select a source disk from the Source popup menu. This will populate the "Items to be copied" table with the list of files at the root level of this volume.
  2. You may remove items from the "Items to be copied" list that you do not want moved to the new drive.
  3. Select a target disk. Target disk selection will be easiest if your drives have unique names.
  4. Generally, the default preferences are just fine. However, you may want to check the preferences for advanced features. In particular, CCC 2.0 introduces the ability to synchronize the source to the target, which can reduce the time to perform the copying.
  5. Click on the lock to provide your administrative password (required to preserve permissions and ownership of System files), then click on the clone button.
  6. If you are cloning to an Old World machine (Beige G3s, for example), you will need to select "Bless Old World Target disk" after the clone procedure has completed.

Cloning can take as little as 5-10 minutes (if you don't have many files and have two physical disks) to more than an hour if you have many GBs of data or are transferring to a partition on the same disk as the original. Be patient and let CCC do its job. You can do other things while CCC is running (go ahead and minimize it), but because this is a disk-intensive process, some activities may be less responsive, such as getting folder listings in the Finder. When CCC is finished, you should be able to select the target disk in the Startup Disk preference pane and bootup from the clone.