{"id":138,"date":"2008-12-28T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=138"},"modified":"2008-12-27T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T07:41:08","slug":"dodging-bullets-with-carbon-copy-cloner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2008\/12\/dodging-bullets-with-carbon-copy-cloner\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodging bullets with Carbon Copy Cloner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-139\" title=\"Carbon Copy Cloner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/carboncopycloner.gif\" alt=\"Carbon Copy Cloner\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/>Like many users, I make mistakes when working with my computer. Some of them are easy to recover from (the Undo command is made more powerful every day). Some are not, like when you&#8217;re trying to clean up hard drive space with the Unix &#8216;find&#8217; command. Let&#8217;s just say that you should <em>always<\/em> use the &#8216;-print0&#8217; flag when trying to run &#8216;find&#8217; results through &#8216;rm&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, due to some major carelessness, I managed to delete a large chunk of my iTunes music library. Not good, particularly when I&#8217;m not even sure how I got some of those rare mp3s in the first place. Fortunately, I am a regular user of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombich.com\/software\/ccc.html\">Carbon Copy Cloner<\/a> by Bombich Software.<\/p>\n<p>This nifty bit of Mac donationware keeps me alive with a bootable backup of my entire harddrive on an external USB drive. One of the main selling points of CCC is that it preserves metadata. This is very important because a lot of software (including the operating system) need this metadata in order to function correctly. It can also do backup schedules, incremental backups, and a host of other nifty options.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you not currently backing up your software, I highly recommend the practice. For those of you who are looking for a good backup product for the Mac, I recommend Carbon Copy Cloner. It&#8217;s donationware, and regularly maintained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many users, I make mistakes when working with my computer. Some of them are easy to recover from (the Undo command is made more powerful every day). Some are not, like when you&#8217;re trying to clean up hard drive space with the Unix &#8216;find&#8217; command. Let&#8217;s just say that you should always use the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[115,114,116,99],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-2e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}