6/21/2023 0 Comments Carbon copy cloner windows![]() ![]() There are options about what to do with files in the original volume. To restore that volume (or a partition), you boot to the backup and clone it back to the volume (or partition) where you want the volume restored. I assume that you cloned a particular volume with CCC. Thus, the backup process will take less time and use less space on your Time Machine storage device." "Parallels Desktop for Mac includes improved integration with Time Machine.When backing up the Virtual Machine, it will only backup the recent changes (the latest snapshot), but not the whole virtual hard drive. Touch a small file in your Windows virtual machine, and now Time Machine will think that all 50 GB (or whatever) of the virtual machine file contents have changed and need to be backed up. So? Your Time Machine drive needs to be at least as big as the one it is backing up from so what difference does it make? The value of backing up any data that is important to you is obvious. What's strange about it being disabled? You know what that virtual machine image looks like to Time Machine? One large file. I would check that option in the future Mike. I'll leave the CCC advice to someone with experience with that app but Parallels has an option for it to be included with Time Machine backups that if I recall correct it is strangely disabled by default. I am used to doing all of this on Windows (where I used Acronis backup/restore software) and know all about recovering files/images from the backup, but I know nothing about how to do this with either CCC or Time Machine. ![]() Is that correct? If not, how do I remove the Windows partition and get the space back to OS X without destroying all of the information on that partition?ģ) If I cannot do step 2 is there any reason I cannot boot from the CCC backup, re-partition the ssd to contain only a single partition and then restore from the CCC backup? Will that work? Or do I need to restore from the recovery partition and then rebuild my system?Ĥ) If none of that will work is there any reason I could not boot from the CCC backup, re-partition my ssd to a single partition and then use Time Machine to restore from the backups? As I mentioned I have continuous TM backups up until just before I added the Windows partition (when I shut TM down). Is there some way to get CCC to restore my system to that state without my manually destroying/resizing the Windows partition? If so, how?Ģ) If I manually resize the Windows partition only back to 0 (or something like that) I assume the Disk Utility will automatically add that back to my OS X partition. So, here are some questions someone, hopefully, can answer.ġ) I did a clone of the disc before I installed Boot Camp and thus before my ssd was partitioned for Windows. The only choices I seem to have end up restoring files from the backup rather than restoring a disc image. When I boot from the CCC backup disc and start CCC I am given a choice of things to do. ![]() I also have TM backups up until just before the Boot Camp installation and partition, but I address that in question (4) below. Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to figure out how to do that. I am assuming the Windows partition may have destroyed the area Parallels was using but, in any case, I can no longer use Parallels.įortunately (I think) I made a backup of my disc space (well, my ssd space) with Carbon Copy Cloner and am ready to go back to my pre-partition configuration. ![]() I have been experimenting with Boot Camp and something has screwed up my ability to use Parallels. ![]()
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