On 11/21/2014 01:38 PM, Morgan Blackthorne wrote:
I'm picking up an SSD for my MacBook since I caught a pre-Black Friday
sale. What's the best way to clone things over to the new drive... toss
both in my Linux box and use dd, or is there a better way? ISTR that HFS
is somewhat problematic.
Or should I put it into an external enclosure and use Time Machine?
The Apple sanctioned way is to backup using Time Machine, install new
drive, start install media, and point to the Time Machine for a restore.
I did that and it was successful, but you *must* be sure that you format
the new drive to GUID before the blasted thing will boot.
I went rounds on that last bit and gnashed my teeth far longer than I
needed to.
As was mentioned already, SuperDuper will also work, but that won't
"defrag" the drive and will copy over any broken files or permissions.
If you go with SuperDuper, I'd recommend running a disk verify and
repair anything that it finds before swapping drives.
dafr
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