Thanks Sam. Makes perfect sense and I would have used SuperDuper anyway.
I'll give it a try tomorrow when the new drive arrives.
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20 October 2015 10:09
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On 20 Oct 2015, at 09:57, Graham Street
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I cloned my MBP SSD drive and updated the clone to El Capitan so
that I can test some things before committing to doing it for real.
And then I did the upgrade on that copy. One of the products I use
is Default Folder X and it seems this needs a new release (that
isn't ready yet). In the meantime, the product can still be run by
switching off SIP (System Integrity Protection) in El Capitan. Is
this a good idea? It seems it may only be for a few weeks.
Shouldn’t be an issue switching off SIP for a couple of weeks, it’s an
additional security benefit but so far we’ve all been fine on Yosemite
without it ;)
Complete coincidence, but my 1Tb TM disk (on the old OSX) is running
low on space and is always 'cleaning up'. The amount of data on my
main hard drive (SSD) has now grown to 530Hb (of 1Tb) so I'm
unsurprised the TM is running low on space. I've ordered a new and
larger external TM disk, due in a few days. As I'm going away for a
while in a few weeks time, I'm not keen to start a new TM disk and
then not be able to go back more than 3 weeks in time. Can I clone
the old TM disk to the new one and have OSX pick up where it left
off with lots of history for restores (but on the larger disk)?
SuperDuper will clone a TM backup, Carbon Copy Cloner won’t touch it.
After that you’ll need to issue the following commands in Terminal,
assuming your Time Machine drive is called “Backup” , your Mac’s name
(in System Preferences > Sharing) is “Graham Street’s iMac” and your
hard drive is named “Macintosh HD"
* sudo tmutil inheritbackup
/Volumes/*Backup*/Backups.backupdb/*Graham\ Street\’s\ iMac*
* sudo tmtuil associatedisk
/Volumes/*Backup*/Backups.backupdb/*Graham\ Street\’s\
iMac*/Latest/*Macintosh\ HD* /
The bold text is the one you might need to change. Note the use of \
to escape the space character and apostrophe. Also not the space
between Macintosh HD and /, this associates the disk Macintosh HD
(within your Time Machine backup) with / (your current startup drive).
There will be a bit of checking on the next backup but it should pick
up where it left off.
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Graham Street <mailto:[email protected]>
20 October 2015 09:57
Can anyone help or advise me please? ... thanks, Graham
Graham Street <mailto:[email protected]>
18 October 2015 17:08
Got a couple of questions I hope someone can help with ///
I cloned my MBP SSD drive and updated the clone to El Capitan so that
I can test some things before committing to doing it for real. And
then I did the upgrade on that copy. One of the products I use is
Default Folder X and it seems this needs a new release (that isn't
ready yet). In the meantime, the product can still be run by switching
off SIP (System Integrity Protection) in El Capitan. Is this a good
idea? It seems it may only be for a few weeks.
Complete coincidence, but my 1Tb TM disk (on the old OSX) is running
low on space and is always 'cleaning up'. The amount of data on my
main hard drive (SSD) has now grown to 530Hb (of 1Tb) so I'm
unsurprised the TM is running low on space. I've ordered a new and
larger external TM disk, due in a few days. As I'm going away for a
while in a few weeks time, I'm not keen to start a new TM disk and
then not be able to go back more than 3 weeks in time. Can I clone the
old TM disk to the new one and have OSX pick up where it left off with
lots of history for restores (but on the larger disk)?
Thanks, Graham
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