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Reduce CPU workload while cloning boot drive
Authored by: wallybear on Jun 08, '09 01:53:14PM

While zeroing a brand new drive can be wise enough to pinpoint bad sectors (it can happen, also on new drives; btw a surface scan can be more effective, if you own some utility that can do that), the other recommendations (original drive infected with malware, disconnect from networks, keep a timed back clone, clone a boot drive before OS X changes/tweaks/updates or application/driver installs, turn off Java in browsers) seem to me a little too paranoid or coming from a previously Windows user (no offense intended).

Currently we are not living in such a scary world of terror.

It's true that Time Machine cannot boot, but you can do needed recovery booting from your System DVD, it can use TM backups.
A good habit instead is to keep a small bootable partition (or even better another drive, if possible) in order to be able to boot from there in case of trouble. From there you can use repair utilities and your Time Machine backups more easily.



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Reduce CPU workload while cloning boot drive
Authored by: TonyT on Jun 09, '09 07:37:08AM

>A good habit instead is to keep a small bootable partition (or even better
>another drive, if possible) in order to be able to boot from there in case of trouble.

Agreed. (I put my Leopard Install disks as a bootable partition on my Time Machine drive, so I can boot and restore from the drive)



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