Yes, Disk Utility's Restore does a fine job of copying volumes. Copying from the booted drive is never guaranteed. It usually works, but not always. If you must do that, start in Safe Mode and login in Safe Mode to eliminate as much background activity as you can, and do nothing else on the machine while the drive is copying. Safer is to use transfer mode and a second external machine.
On Jun 24, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote: > Hmm. I mentioned CCC and SD to higher-ups and was told that Disk Utility's > "Restore" function does the same thing. > > Under Disk Utility's Restore tab it says: "To copy or restore a disk image to > a disk, select the source disk or disk image, select the destination disk, > and then click Restore." It looks like all you have to do is drag the "Server > HD" icon from the left-hand column into the Source textfield, and drag the > new SSD drive icon in to the Destination textfield and click Restore. > > Has anyone tried this? Does it work on an active system? Does it make a > bootable copy? Will any of these 3 ways -- CCC, SD, DU -- work? > > Thx > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
