Create a hard drive clone

With Carbon Copy Cloner.

THE FINAL DESTINATION Your destination drive should be formatted macOS Extended (Journaled) and bigger than your Macintosh HD so it can be booted from if you need to in the future. SELECT YOUR SOURCE For a full clone of your Mac’s hard drive, select Macintosh HD (unless yours is called something different) as your Source in Carbon Copy Cloner’s Task Plan interface. ALL THE FILES Under the Source section you’ll have the option to choose what you clone. As we want to be able to boot our Mac from this backup, ensure that ‘All files’ is set. SET A SCHEDULE For a fully bootable clone of your hard drive, we recommend setting it to be remade weekly or at least monthly so that you’ll always have relatively recent data ready.…

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