![]() If they are not, I would use Carbon Copy Cloner (donationware $5 or more) or SuperDuper ($28 or so). If these features are important to you, then consider buying Cop圜atX. It will copy a drive to MULTIPLE destination drives. It works under Linux, FreeBSD and Mac).Ģ. (If you want a truly FREE solution for drive recovery, use a command line program like GNU ddrescue. It will attempt to recover a damaged drive with bad blocks. I believe that SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner can copy the Time Machine Drive (or Partition) when it does the clone in the block copy mode (or a bit for bit copy)īut I do see two advantages of Cop圜atX over its competition:ġ. Please correct me if I am wrong.Ĭop圜atX is not the only program that can copy your Time Machine Drive (or Partition). I don't think Cop圜atX gets around this limitation. So if you are trying to make a clone of your System drive, you cannot do a block copy of the drive but a file copy of your drive. ![]() But before ANY program can do a block copy (or a bit by bit copy) the drive must be UNMOUNTED. Even the free command line utility provided by Apple called asr can do a block copy of drives. Both SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner can do that. I believe that some of the comments made below by the developers of Cop圜atX could be seen as a little misleading.Ĭop圜atX is NOT the only program that can do a block copy of a drive.
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