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Moving "HOME" Folder contents to External Drive
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1506718" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Time Machine already copies the Home folder contents.</p><p></p><p>It sounds like what you want is to be able to boot to a 2nd drive if/when your internal drive dies.</p><p>In that case, you will use CCC to make a clone of your internal drive to the new external drive.</p><p>No need to make a 'boot' disk. The cloned drive will be bootable and an exact copy of your internal drive so you can pick up and keep going from whatever point you last cloned the drive.</p><p></p><p>Always after creating a clone, boot to it and make sure it is working and all your stuff is there.</p><p>I typically just open 2 or 3 apps and make sure my most important stuff is working and everything looks ok.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1506718, member: 24160"] Time Machine already copies the Home folder contents. It sounds like what you want is to be able to boot to a 2nd drive if/when your internal drive dies. In that case, you will use CCC to make a clone of your internal drive to the new external drive. No need to make a 'boot' disk. The cloned drive will be bootable and an exact copy of your internal drive so you can pick up and keep going from whatever point you last cloned the drive. Always after creating a clone, boot to it and make sure it is working and all your stuff is there. I typically just open 2 or 3 apps and make sure my most important stuff is working and everything looks ok. [/QUOTE]
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