I used Carbon Copy Cloner to back up my MacBook’s drive before installing OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. Instead of storing the data on my ocassionally flaky “Coolmax” 3.5″ enclosure (with non-flaky 500GB Maxtor drive), I chose to put the drive in my PowerMac G5 and clone in a machine-to-machine fashion using Firewire.
This is not a step-by-step, but rather just some thoughts I thought I’d pass on to those who may run into the same bumps I did with Carbon Copy Cloner:
On Mac OS
- enable Remote Login on the target machine
- mount the target machine’s volume
On CCC
- Target Disk -> Select a Target -> Remote Macintosh… here you must use a “.local” extension on your target machine’s name, for instance “G5.local”. “G5″ did not work for me.
- CCC creates an authentication certificate that you must install on both machines
Hope this helps!
