![]() ![]() No 2: I intend to do this syncing between machines on a regular basis (say once a day). The new drive was formatted to match the source drive (Mac OS Extended Journaled). I have both the source and destination drives connected to the MBP through a USB to USB-C adapter. P.S.: I am intending to always restrict my disk space usage to less than 256GB so I do not face problem of no disk space on the Mac that has lower disk capacity. Cloning with Disk Utility does not work, so I was recommended Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drive. If CCCloner does not offer this, is there any other way to do this? Over time, a boot drive can become clogged up with registry problems. I just need both Macbooks to be synced, so that if one is down for repair, there's practically no downtime. A clone backup is an exact copy of a hard drive volume, and a bootable clone is an. I am thinking of this so I can bypass the hassle of cloning to an external harddrive first and then restore to the 2nd Mac. ![]() Everything else, including the model A1990, and all other specs are the same. Both machines have exactly the same hardware and OS, except that one of them is running with CPU Intel i7, the other with i9, and one has 512GB disk capacity and the other 256GB. For example in your OP you said "I have a backup of my mac on CCC and I just got it back from getting the hard drive replaced and when I try to boot from the backup I get a kernal panic but when I open it in Mac OS X all the files are there", which is quite different from this post where you say there are files missing on the CCC HD backup disk.Is it possible to clone a Mac directly to another Mac with Carbon Copy Cloner? I just need an answer for macOS 10.13.6. Without ccorrect information it is impossible to help you without further risking data loss, However, if you are now running from the internal disk with OS 10.6.4, you should be able to just drag any existing data from the external disk to the internal HD. However, if as you say, there are empty folders then the data in those folders may already be gone or they may still be there with the invisible bit set so yu can't see them. ![]() When installing Snow Leopard on a disk that already has a system and users folders, the installer does not overwrite user data, it does a type of archive and install, with no old system folder like Leopard had, so your data should be OK. Having Fusion running while trying to clone a disk where a VM is running from can (and very probably will) result in an inconsistent and. ![]() I do hope that your VM is either suspended or shut down, and that VMware Fusion is not running when you take the clone. what system are you booting from, the internal disk? And what OS are you using, the latest MBP 2010 should have 10.6.4? Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1, a new update is out, 3.1.1 will download and try again. I also do not understand how you are viewing the backup disk. For example in your OP you said "I have a backup of my mac on CCC and I just got it back from getting the hard drive replaced and when I try to boot from the backup I get a kernal panic but when I open it in Mac OS X all the files are there", which is quite different from this post where you say there are files missing on the CCC HD backup disk. Open CCC and choose 'Check for updates.' from the Carbon Copy Cloner menu to get the update, or click the 'Download CCC 6' button above. While this has worked in the past, Apple has made it clear that this is no longer supported. The following if from the developer: You should not restore a backup of macOS System files from one Mac to another. Click to expand.Your information is hard to understand. It is not possible to completely migrate your old Mac solely using Carbon Copy Cloner. ![]()
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