Hi All, I don't use Windows through BootCamp or VMWare Fusion, but I thought I would quote the results of a Google search from the Carbon Copy Cloner FAQ: http://help.bombich.com/kb/troubleshooting/can-ccc-back-up-my-bootcamp-windows-partition <begin quote> Home → Knowledge Base → Frequently Asked Questions and Troubleshooting → Can CCC back up my BootCamp (Windows) partition?
CCC can back up the contents of the Boot Camp partition, but it cannot make a bootable clone of the partition. If your goal is to back up your user data on the Boot Camp partition, CCC will meet your needs. If you're looking to migrate your Boot Camp partition to a new hard drive, you might consider an alternative solution such as WinClone, or one of the commercial virtualization solutions that offer a migration strategy from Boot Camp. <end quote> To reiterate the points that both Zack and Lynne have made, CCC cannot make a bootable clone that includes a separate BootCamp partition, but it can create a bootable clone that includes a VMWare Fusion virtualized image made using the BootCamp partition -- however, you would not be running BootCamp if you used this bootable clone, but instead accessing Windows through VMWare Fusion. I'll add that neither Carbon Copy Cloner nor SuperDuper! will back up the recovery partition that gets installed on your hard drive with Lion. This is the small partition that lets you hold down Command-R at start up or the Option key at boot time to select and start up from that partition. You can create external recovery disks with Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, as outlined in the "Take Control of Upgrading to Lion" guide or in the recent TidBITS article, "Lion Recovery Disk Assistant Creates External Recovery Drives": http://tidbits.com/article/12411 I'll list a few of the answers that have appeared in the Apple Discussion forums for backup tools that will handle cloning the BootCamp partition. Most users preferred to handle the Mac partition backups with either SuperDuper! or CCC. Although some of the following can handle both, they may be meant primarily for drive imaging, so there are other tradeoffs (e.g., take much longer, fewer backup/restore options with more specific functionality, etc.) • CopyCatX 5.0 from SubRosaSoft.com: http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=7 • Clone X 4 from TRI-EDRE: http://www.tri-edre.com/english/clonex.html (The French web page is: <http://www.tri-edre.com/fr/clonex.html> ) * Paragon HD Manager 2011 or Paragon Backup & Recovery 10 Home: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hdm-personal/ http://www.paragon-software.com/home/brh/features.html (I'm not sure whether you run this from BootCamp; the description of how someone used the "Backup Partition" option of HD Manager 2011 to boot from DVD sounded as though it might not be accessible.) The inability to use Winclone under Lion and its lack of current development/support was mentioned, and it wasn't clear whether Clonezilla, a solution that worked under Snow Leopard and which is free and open source software, would also work under Lion. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Sep 2, 2011, at 21:44, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi Lynn, > You're quite correct. CCC or SuperDuper would not back up any bootcamp > partition, you'd need another backup utility to do that. I'm not sure what > programs are available for such tasks, as I find CCC adequate for my needs. > This is probably a good argument in favor of single-file VM configurations, > but that's neither here nor there. THe point to all this is yes, Lynn, > you're right. :) > Yours, > Zack. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
