hi.
While CCC is a good utility, I encourage you to understand the
underlying utilities it uses:
1. rsync.
2. asr
3. hdiutil
You can read extensive man pages on each of these utilities.
I usually just use Disk Utility to create images. If you choose File >
New > Disk Image from Folder... it will create a file-by file image,
which is space optimized, and imagable to any size output target you
want to image. If you choose File > New > Disk Image from Device... it
will create a bit-by-bit copy of the device in question, usually in a
"stretchable" format. This is very similar to the venerable, and still
very useful dd command, but Disk Utility does a number of fancy things
to the image file. I usually put the system I want to image into
target disk mode, and image it using a different system altogether
over Firewire.
Obviously, if you plan to image a system, that system must be totally
quiescent, so boot using some other disk, or system using target disk
mode. The Mac OS X install disk is a live-filesystem disk, and iirc,
offers the above utilities in the Terminal, and Disk Utility also.
There are a number of detailed tutorials online about imaging Mac OS X
systems for deployment, as I am sure you are aware. For example: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20081220204349839
and http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20040726230142403.
Good luck.
have a day.yad
jdpf
On May 20, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Dave Tisdell wrote:
Hi all,
I am planning to replace an xserver for a client. The current server
is PPC based and the replacement is an Intel architecture. The
current server is running leopard (10.5). Does anyone know if I can
use Carbon Copy Cloner from a PPC Mac to an Intel Mac? It would be a
quicker configuration if I can. Thanks.
Dave
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