Backing up my new Mac? - Page 2

Feek · 19-08-2008, 22:13

I thought you said the new Velociraptor won't fit in the caddy? I've got an F1 arriving tomorrow and that's what I'm going to be cloning the boot drive onto.

So because it'll be internal, do I have to go via an image?

Burble · 19-08-2008, 22:27

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Originally Posted by Feek

So because it'll be internal, do I have to go via an image?

I believe so. From what I remember CCC won't let you image from one internal drive to another.

Mark · 19-08-2008, 22:33

Would an external enclosure work (if you've got one, obviously)?

Darryn · 20-08-2008, 11:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Feek

I thought you said the new Velociraptor won't fit in the caddy? I've got an F1 arriving tomorrow and that's what I'm going to be cloning the boot drive onto.

So because it'll be internal, do I have to go via an image?

They have released a new revision of the Velociraptors with a standardised backplane, so they will now fit in server enclosures.

Im hoping this means they will also slot directly into the Macpro.

Feek · 20-08-2008, 11:52

With a standard backplane then they should just slot in. I feel they're still too expensive though.

My 320Gb F1 has arrived today so I'll be trying to clone to it tonight, I'll go via an image.

Feek · 20-08-2008, 21:46

Backing up to an image is painfully slow, it's taken an hour and forty minutes so far to do under 11Gb. I'm going to break this and try a direct clone to a disk. If that doesn't work then I'll start the backup to an image again and hopefully it'll be done by the time I get home from work tomorrow.

Feek · 20-08-2008, 22:20

Direct clone disk to disk took 20 minutes. It was quite slow to boot but I'm guessing it was running an fsck or whatever the OS X equivalent is on the first boot.

So direct disk to disk without going to an image does work, yay!

Darryn · 20-08-2008, 23:10

You tried rebooting again? see if its speeds up once its done all the optimising type stuff?

Hows the drive running once in OSX? any speed differance loading and running apps?

Feek · 20-08-2008, 23:17

Reboot didn't seem any quicker and I'm running a new Time Machine now so tomorrow I'll do a drive clean up with Onyx and see how it goes.

As for performance - No idea yet, as I said, I'm running a big Time Machine backup now so that will be affecting things anyway so again, I'll know more tomorrow.

Burble · 21-08-2008, 08:27

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Originally Posted by Feek

So direct disk to disk without going to an image does work, yay!

I stand corrected! I know it wasn't possible last time I tried but that was quite a while ago.

19-08-2008, 22:13	#11
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	I thought you said the new Velociraptor won't fit in the caddy? I've got an F1 arriving tomorrow and that's what I'm going to be cloning the boot drive onto. So because it'll be internal, do I have to go via an image? __________________

20-08-2008, 11:52	#15
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	With a standard backplane then they should just slot in. I feel they're still too expensive though. My 320Gb F1 has arrived today so I'll be trying to clone to it tonight, I'll go via an image. __________________

20-08-2008, 21:46	#16
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	Backing up to an image is painfully slow, it's taken an hour and forty minutes so far to do under 11Gb. I'm going to break this and try a direct clone to a disk. If that doesn't work then I'll start the backup to an image again and hopefully it'll be done by the time I get home from work tomorrow. __________________

20-08-2008, 22:20	#17
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	Direct clone disk to disk took 20 minutes. It was quite slow to boot but I'm guessing it was running an fsck or whatever the OS X equivalent is on the first boot. So direct disk to disk without going to an image does work, yay! __________________

20-08-2008, 23:10	#18
Darryn Loves his cars more than his friends Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Colne, Lancashire Posts: 108	You tried rebooting again? see if its speeds up once its done all the optimising type stuff? Hows the drive running once in OSX? any speed differance loading and running apps? __________________ My Flickr

19-08-2008, 22:33	#13
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	Would an external enclosure work (if you've got one, obviously)?

20-08-2008, 23:17	#19
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	Reboot didn't seem any quicker and I'm running a new Time Machine now so tomorrow I'll do a drive clean up with Onyx and see how it goes. As for performance - No idea yet, as I said, I'm running a big Time Machine backup now so that will be affecting things anyway so again, I'll know more tomorrow. __________________

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