That can work and I've done it, but how about the recovery partition on lion. I don't think that can be restored although carbon copy cloner can now back up the recovery partition. I wonder if that can be restored along with the back up. to the internal drive.
Take care all. On Apr 9, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote: > Okay, here's something that may help those who think their Mac system is > running more slowly than it used to and all you need is a backup tool or > application. > > For this example I'll be referring to the backup tool called Super Duper but > with a little variation of the below there's no reason you can't use > something else like say a Time Capsule or another backup application. > > You could of course defragment your hard drive of your Mac but this can take > a huge amount of time so the alternative is to backup your data, erase the > data from your Mac's hard drive and then restore the Backup you made earlier, > only takes a couple of hours though this can depend on what sort of backup > device you use, in my case I used a Western Digital Mybook Studio external > hard drive which connects to my iMac using Firewire 8, not the fastest way of > connection but certainly not the slowest. > > So down to business, I used Super Duper to backup the data, as I'd backed up > to the Mybook Studio drive previously with Super Duper it made sense to > enable the "Smart Backup" feature of the application, with this feature > enabled Super Duper checks the files in the backup against those on your Mac, > only those files on your Mac which have a more recent date or that are > different to those in the backup are aded thus saving a huge amont of time. > I also enabled the "Repair Permissions" option so that permissions of the > Mac's hard drive were repaired before the backup took place. > > When the backup had been completed I then rebooted my system from the Mybook > Studio drive, this is done by holding down the "Option" key upon startup of > the Mac, after a minute or so you can use the arrow keys to select which > device you wish to boot from and in my case I press the left arrow key once. > > So now to erase and restore what I backed up and that's easy enough, all one > has to do initially is reverse the process in Super Duper, select the > "Restore To" option rather than the "Backup" option. > > Then you need to change some of the Super Duper options, you'll need to turn > off "Smart Backup/restore" and turn on "Erase Data before Restore". > > So when the restoration is complete, reboot as per usual from your Mac's hard > drive and note the difference in performance for yourself, may take a while > for you to notice anything given that the Mac will probably want to do a > little writing to your hard drive as part of its own internal house keeping > so monitor your computer over a few hours. > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
