Best Cloning Application for Mac OS X
How can I clone my Mac OS X? Is it possible to copy Mac OS X currently running on my Machine? The answer is YES ! There are many ways to create exact copy of Mac OS X, but Stellar Drive Clone is considered as the best application for cloning Mac. Its an easy to use, cost effective, and reliable tool to create backup of your machine.
Features
- Creates an exact replica of your source drive to destination drive
- Creates a bootable backup for your boot drive
- Easy way to migrate files from source disk to another
- Supports both block-level and file level cloning
- Store your backup to external drive, same drive or to a network drive
- Able to create image of your drive restore from the same
- Very simple and user friendly interface with explanatory notes
Bright area of Stellar Drive Clone
Cloning a source disk to destination network drive, creating a disk image and restoring from a backup, or a network share. It offers you an option either to clone a volume or an entire drive. The best part of this cloning application is that you can clone the running Mac OS X on another drive without interrupting your work. Secondly, in while cloning Mac Lion, it can create copy of recovery HD in Mac Lion.
Where it Falls short
Till now this cloning tool doesn't offer an incremental backup. This drawback is going to be removed in coming version to be released very soon. Except this, there is no other grey area in this Mac cloning tool.
System Requirements :
- Processor: Intel, PowerPC (G3 or later)
- Operating System: Mac OS X Lion 10.7,
OS X 10.6, OS X 10.5, OS X 10.4 and OS X 10.3. - Memory: 256 MB RAM
- Hard Disk: 25 MB of free space
User Guide for Stellar Drive Clone
Alternate disk cloning tool
Disk Utility- Its an inbuilt utility for Mac OS X and is an excellent option for cloning a drive. While it copies file-by-file, rather than block-by-block, but can't clone the boot drive you booted from. Its a free but not an easy to use application.
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