CCC questions 1... and 2... (cloning)

[MacDoxy]

MB 2.2 c2d leopard.5.2
250g HD
640g backup ext drive

1} can i ccc (clone) my MB to a drive that has time machine backups on it? and if so, do i have to do anything special?


2} if i make a ccc of my drive and my MB drive crashes/dies then i would just install a new drive, and transfer the information to it from the backup and i would be at the exact same spot i was when i cloned it, right? without having to reload programs or serials or downloading any programs again? (if it does do this, is it hard to load it from a backup onto the new hd?)

(a friend of mine had trouble getting their adobe and other programs back when their HD crashed and i want to avoid losing any of my programs and stuff)

[olnacl]

1) I believe you'd be wise to make a partition on the TM drive for the CCC Backup. I think CCC will see the
sparsebundle as a file and probably will not play well with it on the same partition as the clone.
2) I just did a restore recently from a TM backup and CS3 did have a serial number fit which I was able to resolve using the AdobeLicensingFilesBackup file
3) It should be a piece of cake to restore, however, remember Murphy's Laws. YMMV.

[bazookaman]

I just installed a new hard drive in my machine and used a clone (from superduper) to restore the boot drive. everything worked fine. CS3 didn't even hiccup.

[MacDoxy]

the only clone i ever made before was on a g5 onto a drive that went right into one of the bays so i don't actually know how to use the clone on an external to feed the clone back into the computer.

how does the computer start with a blank drive and retrieve the clone?

[bazookaman]

What i did was boot from the clone and use super duper to clone itself to my new (blank) boot drive.

[thermarest]

1) dont' know, but I wouldn't try it personally. Use Disk Utility to make 2 partitions on the backup drive if you want a clone and a TM backup. Of course, this drive will then need to be larger than 2x your mackbook drive size.
2) like bazookaman said, not even a hicup. That's why CCC & SuperDuper are so great.

[Doc]

1. I used SD to make my TM backup partition bootable, but CCC should work. Just make sure that you have the box un-checked for "Delete items that do not exist on the source."

2. That's what a clone is for.