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A workaround for Carbon Copy Cloner FireWire issue Apps
Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) is my favorite system utlity. I've used it over and over to clone disks to new machines at work and at home. However, last night I ran into a serious problem which is also mentioned in the manual of CCC FAQ documentation:
Q(2): Half the way through copying files to my firewire drive, CCC hangs up. What's going on?
I had cloned my PowerBook 12 inch disk to my 30 GB iPod when a DVD got stuck in the SuperDrive, and the PB had to be returned to Apple. For a week and a half, I used the iPod as the startup disk on an old iBook. Fine, I had my computer, albeit slower. When the PB returned, I figured a simple clone from the iPod to the PB should do the trick to get my self working on the PB as if nothing happened. Halfway through the clone, everything seized. I had a problem.

I tried everything on the iPod: fsck, repair privileges, disk utility, reformatting the PB disk etc. All to no avail. I think I must have tried at least 8 or 9 times with no success. Constant forced restarts.

I finally decided to plug the iPod into another G4. The difference this time was that the iPod was not the startup disk as it had been on the PB. I launched Disk Utility and repaired the privileges. The screen went beserk with repairs -- Library/bla/bla and .System/bla/bla, amongst others, were repaired in the thousands. I then plugged the iPod back into the PB as the startup disk. I cloned without a problem. The next day, I reformatted the PB hard disk once more and tried cloning from the iPod again. Same problem, same solution.

Conclusion: if your FireWire startup disk hangs halfway through a clone, repairing permissions while the disk is the startup disk will not solve the problem. Repair the permissions while it is mounted as an external disk, and all should be fine.

The only thing I haven't solved is that after cloning with CCC, Apple's Disk Utlity doesn't recognize the disk as repairable (repairing permissions is not a problem, however). It's greyed out and I haven't a clue what the problem is. Some kind of blessing of the disk?
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Use NetRestore, not CCC
Authored by: matx666 on Jul 16, '03 11:50:44AM

I used to use CCC to clone images back, but now I use it only to make the master image from a build (make an ASR-scanned disk image from CCC). I restrore that image using NetRestore (another bombich app) or ASR on the command line. Works like a charm. 5min or less. Much faster to restore than CCC. And mostly preoblem free.

-matx
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