On Jan 8, 3:50 pm, Dan <[email protected]> wrote:

> At 1:37 PM -0700 1/8/2009, nestamicky wrote:
>
> >do size of the partition on the machine and that on the external
> >drive have to be the exact same?
>
> As long as you're doing a file-based (not block level) clone, the
> destination volume needs to be only big enough to hold the data on
> the source.
>
> Bigger is better, of course, so you can let the incrementals
> accumulate in the _CCC folders for quite a while.  (the more ancient
> time machine effect).

And, as Dan explained to another poster in another thread, you get
file-based clones by using the "Incremental backup" option.   CCC
documentation is not explicitly clear about that.

Al Poulin
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