Lion-specific features of CCC |
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CCC offers several new features that support new functionality (or lost functionality) in Mac OS X Lion.
Create a Lion Installer Disk
Starting with Mac OS X Lion, Apple no longer distributes the Mac OS X Installer on a DVD. The installer is instead made available via the Mac App Store for immediate download. While this is wonderful for quickly getting your copy of Lion, the logistics of reinstalling Lion become a bit more complicated. While restoring from a CCC bootable backup gets you back to productivity much faster and with less hassle, there are times when you may genuinely need to reinstall Lion.
If you bought a Mac that came with Lion, Apple offers a service called "Internet Recovery" that allows you to reinstall Lion via the Internet. If you downloaded Lion from the Mac App Store, though, you're kind of stuck if your hard drive fails and you don't have a CCC bootable backup.
If you find yourself longing for a physical installer disk, your search is over. Starting with version 3.4.4, Carbon Copy Cloner can clone your Mac App Store Lion Installer to a physical volume (e.g. a USB thumb drive, Firewire drive, etc.). If the "Install Mac OS X Lion" application is present in your Applications folder, simply choose "Create a Lion Installer..." from CCC's Source menu, choose a locally-attached, HFS+ formatted volume from the Destination menu, then click the Clone button. In just a few minutes, you'll have a bootable Mac OS X Installer disk for posterity.
Clone Lion's Recovery HD
Starting with version 3.4.4, Carbon Copy Cloner offers full support for cloning the Lion-proprietary "Recovery HD" volume. More detail on this feature is offered in the Cloning Lion's Recovery HD partition section of the documentation.
Leveraging Lion's Full Disk Encryption ("File Vault 2")
Apple introduced a new "Full Disk Encryption" feature to Mac OS X Lion, and that functionality is exposed for Lion users in CCC's Disk Center. To learn more about securing the contents of your backup volume, see the Full Disk Encryption section of the documentation.