YOURAPP IconThe Clone backup type

 

Full System Clone

 

This option will use rsync to create a complete copy of your internal drive, or any other volume or disk, to another disk or partiton. Clones are great since if you have a drive failure you can be back up and running in no time with a complete fresh copy of your original System and personal files. Clones are also good when installing a new System or update as you can select the attached clone disk to migrate all your personal files from at the end of the System install process (you will be asked if you want to do that.)

 

Full System Clone settings

Clone options

 

 

  1. Clone using rysnc (updates): will perform a full system copy to the destination disk and update any changed files.
  2. Clone using rsync - erase destination: will erase the destination disk before performing a fresh clean backup of your system. Note: This will erase the source volume completely which means all data will be lost!
  3. Block level clone: This option uses apple's asr to perform a block level clone which will mkae an exact replica of the source drive to the destination. It is usually much faster and will make an exact replica, including any bugs or issues with the source volume's system. Note: This will erase the source volume completely which means all data will be lost! for this type of clone opertation, both soucre and destination volumes must be un-mountable so you must be booted from another volume than the source and destination volumes.

 

Rsync delete option. This causes rsync to delete and files on the destination that are not on the source. Warning! This is a destructive action and will cause loss of any data in the destination directory that is not present in the source directory. You must know what you are doing with this choice or risk data loss.

 

Backing up to a sparse disk image

You can have backupList+ create a sparse disk image, mount the image and then copy the source files into it. You can do this with regular, incremental or clone type backups.

Sparse disk image: Sparse images grow in size to the maximum you enter in the text field. With this option backuplist+ will create the sparseimage, mount it and copy the source files into it. The next time you run this backup set, backuplist+ will mount the image and update the source files with any new changes.You must enter a size for the initial disk image. This should be the maximum size you think the sparse image will need. It will however only occupy the disk space of its contained files which is very nice.