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Chen Yufei

28 Jul, 2012 08:52 AM

Hi, I've been using CCC for about a year and just bought it yesterday.

I originally has my startup disk backed to an external hard disk and have recovery partition created on the backup disk.

After updating to Mountain Lion and re-cloned the recovery partition, I decided to get rid of the recovery partition on the backup disk and just have a recovery hd imaged on it. (The recovery partition on the startup disk is 700MB while 1.1G on the backup disk. I'm a little obsessed with the wasted 400MB space so call me crazy …)

Here's what I did:

1. First erase the recovery partition on the backup disk

   diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ Blank /dev/disk2s3

2. Merge the backup partition with the now blank partition

   diskutil mergePartitions HFS+ 'Macintosh HD' disk2s2 disk2s3

3. Run previously scheduled backup task to backup the startup disk, hoping it will create the recovery partition in '/Library/Application Support/com.bombich.ccc/' on the backup disk. I tried the backup twice but the 'Recovery HD.dmg' file does not appear.

I had the "automatically create an archive of apple's recovery hd volume" option selected in preferences.

Sorry to bother you with my unusual usage.

1. 2 Posted by Chen Yufei on 28 Jul, 2012 09:21 AM

   

   If I remember correctly, previous version of CCC could create a Recover HD dmg manually in disk center.

   When I was using Lion, I deleted the recovery hd on my startup disk without backing it up. When I decided to restore the recovery partition, I used that feature to create a recovery hd dmg from other people's MBP and restored it on my own startup disk by booting from the bootable backup created by CCC.

   So I guess that feature would be useful to some people, but can't find it the CCC version 3.5.

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2. Support Staff 3 Posted by Mike Bombich on 29 Jul, 2012 03:43 AM

   

   Hi Chen:

   Here's what I did [to merge the Recovery HD into the associated partition]

   If you want to do this in the future, hold down the Command key while clicking the button to reclone the Recovery HD. CCC will then "absorb" the Recovery HD into the associated partition. This is a little hidden gem that I implemented to make my QA testing cycles go faster.

   Run previously scheduled backup task to backup the startup disk, hoping it will create the recovery partition in '/Library/Application Support/com.bombich.ccc/' on the backup disk.

   The Recovery HD disk image archive is actually created on the source disk, not on the destination. It is subsequently copied to the destination, though, unless you excluded the /Library folder. I see this in your log:

   Archive the Recovery HD volume: No (disabled in preferences)

   I had the "automatically create an archive of apple's recovery hd volume" option selected in preferences.

   Sorry for the discontinuity here, this is something I have addressed for the next update. The preference for archiving the Recovery HD was actually being saved immutably in the scheduled task configuration file, so even though you re-enabled that option, your scheduled task wasn't heeding the change.

   If I remember correctly, previous version of CCC could create a Recover HD dmg manually in disk center.

   No, the Recovery HD archive disk image is only created when you run a backup task, there was never functionality to create an archive of the Recovery HD in the Disk Center. You can restore from a Recovery HD disk image archive in the Disk Center, but the decision to use a disk image is handled by CCC, there's no interface for making that choice.

   Mike

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3. 4 Posted by Chen Yufei on 29 Jul, 2012 04:48 AM

   

   Thank you. Now I'm clear what happened and will just wait for the next update :)

   I made a mistake about the manual creation of Recovery HD disk image. My friend used CCC to clone his original hard disk to an SSD, and I got the disk image from that.

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   Best regards,
   Chen Yufei

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4. 5 Posted by Chen Yufei on 29 Jul, 2012 05:02 AM

   

   I re-created the recovery partition on the backup disk and noticed the partition size is now only 784.2MB.

   I really appreciate your effort to make CCC better, even in places where people will not likely to notice.

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   Best regards,
   Chen Yufei

   On 2012年7月29日Sunday at 下午12:47, Chen Yufei wrote:

   > Thank you. Now I'm clear what happened and will just wait for the next update :)
   >
   > I made a mistake about the manual creation of Recovery HD disk image. My friend used CCC to clone his original hard disk to an SSD, and I got the disk image from that.
   >
   > --
   > Best regards,
   > Chen Yufei
   >
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   > On 2012年7月29日Sunday at 上午11:43, Mike Bombich wrote:
   >
   > > **** PLEASE REPLY ABOVE THIS LINE ****
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