We released CCC 4.1.4 last week with a handful of minor bug fixes, as well as some enhancements and a stamp of approval for use with OS X 10.11 'El Capitan'. This update is free for CCC 4 license holders, and recommended for anyone currently running CCC 4.
Carbon Copy Cloner is a bootable backup solution for the Mac. Suppose the unthinkable happens while you're under deadline to finish a project - your Mac is unresponsive and all you hear is an. When performing a backup of a macOS volume, Carbon Copy Cloner automatically archives the Recovery HD volume that is associated with the source volume to a disk image. This archive can later be restored to another Recovery HD volume. CCC's Disk Center also offers the ability to create a new Recovery HD volume on your destination disk.
With the announcement of a ship date for El Capitan, perhaps you are counting down the days to when you can inflict it upon your production Mac. Or perhaps, like me, you're going to test it on your kid's Mac first and hope it doesn't wreck his Minecraft worlds. In either case, now is a great time to take another look at your backup hygiene. Many people don't realize this, but if you apply the 'next major OS' upgrade to your Mac, Apple makes it darn near impossible to go back. The rub lies primarily within Apple applications such as Mail, Calendar, Address Book, etc. When you upgrade to the next OS, the data stores for these applications are upgraded as well, in a manner that is not backwards-compatible. So if you loaded El Capitan onto your system and realized that some major piece of productivity software doesn't work, getting back to Yosemite is not only challenging and time consuming, but you're also going to have a lot of trouble getting your email to work. That is, of course, unless you have a bootable backup of your pre-upgrade system.
Before you upgrade, make a bootable backup of your current system with Carbon Copy Cloner, detach the backup disk and set it on a shelf. Learn more about how to protect yourself from upgrade calamities here: Getting Ready for the El Capitan Upgrade
System Integrity Protection and Carbon Copy Cloner
El Capitan introduces a new feature called 'System Integrity Protection' (SIP). A few people have asked us whether CCC 'works' with SIP, and the short answer is, 'Yes, absolutely'. SIP doesn't have any implications for a bootable backup solution. Carbon Copy Cloner 4.1.4 is fully qualified with 10.11 El Capitan. Bootable backups created by CCC will preserve SIP, and SIP will be perfectly functional and happy on a cloned or restored system. To address the specific concerns raised by a few people, CCC can copy and set the 'com.apple.rootless' extended attribute on system folders and files that are on the backup volume. I wouldn't be able to do that on the startup disk (SIP prevents that), but I'd never want to do that anyway; it would be foolish to make changes to the system files on the volume you're currently booted from.
High Sierra is the last and final version for this iMac: How to upgrade to macOS High Sierra - Apple Support and would be the obvious upgrade here.
- Carbon Copy Cloner, Easier options. The longest-established is Mike Bombich’s Carbon Copy Cloner, which has been maturing since the very earliest days of OS X. Aimed primarily at producing, and maintaining, a complete mirror or clone, it now does a great deal more than that. Anyone wanting to copy files in bulk or automatically should start.
- Carbon Copy Cloner backups are better than ordinary backups. Suppose the unthinkable happens while you’re under deadline to finish a project: your Mac is unresponsive and all you hear is an ominous, repetitive clicking noise coming from its hard drive.
Alternatively, use SuperDuper! Or Carbon Copy Cloner to save a mirror image of your system state to an external drive from which you can boot if required. Prev Page 3 of 11 Next Prev Page 3 of 11 Next.
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The general sequence? Check your key apps and upgrade as necessary, back up, back up again, check that your printer and scanner vendors have drivers, download, and upgrade to High Sierra.
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Those pre-upgrade backups are your recovery path if there’s a problem with the upgrade, or a problem found after the upgrade. There’s no other reasonable means to revert to an older release and your pre-upgrade and older environment.
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