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  REstoring an MBPro John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-03-07 18:34 -0800
    Re: REstoring an MBPro nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-07 21:38 -0500
    Re: REstoring an MBPro Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-08 16:02 +1300
    Re: REstoring an MBPro Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-08 08:23 -0400

#70641 — REstoring an MBPro

I now have access to all 490 GB of a borked MBP, via booting off an 
external FW drive. I was thinking of copying- cloning is perhaps a 
better word, most of it to a 500 Gig HD, reformatting the broken 
computer, and then restoring it to the now hopefully nicely formatted 
and running MBP.

But what to use? Time Machine? SuperDuper? Straight copy, then install 
Yosemite Fresh? TM and then fresh install then Restore via TM?

In fact, does TM make a copy of all or most of the System files? In any 
event, I will be leaving out a hundred or more Gigs on the restore.

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#70642

In article <mdgcdm$6d2$1@dont-email.me>, John McWilliams
<jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:

> I now have access to all 490 GB of a borked MBP, via booting off an 
> external FW drive. I was thinking of copying- cloning is perhaps a 
> better word, most of it to a 500 Gig HD, reformatting the broken 
> computer, and then restoring it to the now hopefully nicely formatted 
> and running MBP.
> 
> But what to use? Time Machine? SuperDuper? Straight copy, then install 
> Yosemite Fresh? TM and then fresh install then Restore via TM?
> 
> In fact, does TM make a copy of all or most of the System files? In any 
> event, I will be leaving out a hundred or more Gigs on the restore.

cloning would be the easiest. carbon copy cloner lets you choose what
gets copied while superduper clones everything (skipping stuff that
doesn't need to be copied, like vm swap files, etc.). you can always
delete stuff after it's done.

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#70643

In article <mdgcdm$6d2$1@dont-email.me>, John McWilliams
<jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> I now have access to all 490 GB of a borked MBP, via booting off an 
> external FW drive. I was thinking of copying- cloning is perhaps a 
> better word, most of it to a 500 Gig HD, reformatting the broken 
> computer, and then restoring it to the now hopefully nicely formatted 
> and running MBP.
> 
> But what to use? Time Machine? SuperDuper? Straight copy, then install 
> Yosemite Fresh? TM and then fresh install then Restore via TM?

That could depend on what's actually wrong with the original hard
drive. If it has lots of corrupted files in the system, then it's
pointless restoring those to the new drive.

Personally, I always think it's best to start with a complete fresh
reinstall of the OS and applications you need, as well as any necessary
updaters, then restore your own documents from the backup as and when
you actually need it. You'll usually find there's a huge pile of stuff
you never use and never miss.



> In fact, does TM make a copy of all or most of the System files? In any 
> event, I will be leaving out a hundred or more Gigs on the restore.

It depends on what you set Time Machine up to backup. Most people only
backup their own files - they can easily restore the OS (or could
before Apple stupidly went to Internet installation) and Time Machine
doesn't play nicely with some files (some web browser caches for
example are stored in one huge file, that means the huge file is backed
up every time it changes and therefore wastes a lot of backup drive
space).

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#70663

In article <mdgcdm$6d2$1@dont-email.me>,
 John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:

> I now have access to all 490 GB of a borked MBP, via booting off an 
> external FW drive. I was thinking of copying- cloning is perhaps a 
> better word, most of it to a 500 Gig HD, reformatting the broken 
> computer, and then restoring it to the now hopefully nicely formatted 
> and running MBP.
> 
> But what to use? Time Machine? SuperDuper? Straight copy, then install 
> Yosemite Fresh? TM and then fresh install then Restore via TM?
> 
> In fact, does TM make a copy of all or most of the System files? In any 
> event, I will be leaving out a hundred or more Gigs on the restore.

I did that very thing recently. To "clone" the drive, I just used the 
restore function in Disk Utility. I don't know how TM works.
-- 
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Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing  room scene.
  -- notes for Blade Runner

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