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Copying Macintosh drive to external hard drive.. for security reasons.
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<blockquote data-quote="bernard smith" data-source="post: 1850827" data-attributes="member: 401391"><p>Is it possible to copy the Macintosh drive which as the OS on it ( internal on my iMac which is a 1Tb SSD) to an external hard drive (G)which is not a SSD? </p><p></p><p>I want to do this so that I will have back ups of all that it is on the Macintosh drive stored seperately for peace of mind. ( Lightroom catalog especially)</p><p></p><p>I would then Carbon Copy Clone the external hard drive (G) to another (H) so that I have 3 copies (1 on the internal Macintosh drive and 2 on external hard drives G and H) . </p><p></p><p>I do have a separate SSD external that is dedicated to time machine already. I don't really want to set Time Machine to the external hard drive (G) as it would just keep putting newer copies on it hourly , daily etc. I want to be able to choose when I manually copy the Macintosh drive to the external G drive , so that I get a snapshot when I want it. </p><p></p><p>The second external is stored offsite and is swapped with G when they are cloned to always have a copy offsite. ( paranoia maybe !! )</p><p></p><p>Is this a feasible way to do it?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Cheers </p><p></p><p>Bernard</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bernard smith, post: 1850827, member: 401391"] Is it possible to copy the Macintosh drive which as the OS on it ( internal on my iMac which is a 1Tb SSD) to an external hard drive (G)which is not a SSD? I want to do this so that I will have back ups of all that it is on the Macintosh drive stored seperately for peace of mind. ( Lightroom catalog especially) I would then Carbon Copy Clone the external hard drive (G) to another (H) so that I have 3 copies (1 on the internal Macintosh drive and 2 on external hard drives G and H) . I do have a separate SSD external that is dedicated to time machine already. I don't really want to set Time Machine to the external hard drive (G) as it would just keep putting newer copies on it hourly , daily etc. I want to be able to choose when I manually copy the Macintosh drive to the external G drive , so that I get a snapshot when I want it. The second external is stored offsite and is swapped with G when they are cloned to always have a copy offsite. ( paranoia maybe !! ) Is this a feasible way to do it? Cheers Bernard [/QUOTE]
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