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What is the best way to clone my HD before having someone install a new SSD drive?
One of the differences between the two, is that CCC will clone the Recovery partition as well, but SD, does not.
Let's keep in mind that the Recovery Partition contains useful utilities and is also used by some apps to provide special booting in order to run that particular app. One example is iDefrag. And there are others. I have no idea why the developer of SuperDuper does not include it? I use CCC and it has never failed me and has saved my bacon several times.
I have been using CCC for free, since I downloaded it, 2 years ago, only used it about 8-12 times.As you say, both work well. As for meticulous developers, I don't think anyone is as meticulous as Bombich is. Check out his site sometime and read thru some of his blogs. CCC is more expensive to purchase than SD and SD has a free version whereas CCC does not, although CCC does have a 30 day fully functional trial.
Be as it may, I still like to have a recovery partition that I can use for Disk Utility...
Randy, what does that statement mean? Can you name a case in which you think CCC will not be "fine?" Making a statement that way implies that you have little to no confidence in CCC, but it "might" work. One of the other articles you have posted criticized CCC because of sector-level backups, which, while possible with CCC, is not the default backup method CCC uses. So that criticism is wrong technically and therefore renders the rest of the comparison unreliable. In fact, sector-level copies ONLY work if the geometry of the source and destination drive are identical, a situation that I suspect is rare.It'll probably be fine in 99% of all cases.
which translates, to me, to be "Apple didn't spoon feed me a way to backup the Recovery Partition and I don't want to mess with figuring it out." That is, to me, not a perfectionist, just someone who wants it easy.In general, we try to do things the way Apple basically documents - or implies - they should be done. They don't have a supported way of copying the recovery partition - which is hidden by them - so we decided not to work around that, and to support *their* way of doing it instead.
That's not what I took away from the statement Randy quoted at all. I think following the Apple guidelines increases the likelihood that things are going to work as they should and continue to do so for as long as possible. That could be an especially important idea for a backup utility.Reading what the SD developer said, what I took away that unlike Bombich, he was too lazy to look into the Recovery Partition. You quoted him as saying, which translates, to me, to be "Apple didn't spoon feed me a way to backup the Recovery Partition and I don't want to mess with figuring it out." That is, to me, not a perfectionist, just someone who wants it easy.
BTW, I have both SD and CCC. I have a preference for CCC because of the Recovery partition. I'm not saying SD is bad, just that it probably would work for people 99% of the time.