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| Jan 30th, 2009, 01:54 PM | #1 | | Question about Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) If I cloned a source drive (1st time) to a new drive (target), will any deleted files on the source (i.e. unallocated space) be copied to the target? In other words, if I cloned a drive, then used a data recovery-type tool on the new drive, will it pick up any residuals from the source (deleted files, etc)? |
| Jan 30th, 2009, 04:03 PM | #2 | Mac Guru | Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the answer is no. __________________
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| Jan 31st, 2009, 11:42 AM | #3 |
Location: Planet Earth.....on FASTER boil :-( | Depends on how CCC clones - it it does a block by block it's a completely identical clone including erased files.
Why not clone then scan the the original.
If the volume you are cloning to is larger than the source I think CCC will block level.
I do wish it was a choosable option.
Drive Genius and few others can do block level if I recall.
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| Jan 31st, 2009, 12:30 PM | #4 | Honourable Citizen Location: Ontario and Quebec | Quote: | Depends on how CCC clones - it it does a block by block it's a completely identical clone including erased files.
Why not clone then scan the the original.
If the volume you are cloning to is larger than the source I think CCC will block level. |
Last time I read the details when using CCC, I think it said it will do a block level clone if possible, if not it will do a file level clone. Anyone know what makes a 'block level' clone possible? Every time I have used CCC, it made a file level clone regardless how big (or small) the target drive was I cloned to. A file level clone is actually nice because it effectively also defrags the clone as part of the procedure - just bugs me that I could never do (or CCC never automatically did) a block level clone. |
| Jan 31st, 2009, 12:37 PM | #5 | Guest
| For the geekier in the crowd you can always use dd to do block level copies.
It sounds like the OP is trying to do a recovery but being cautious to preserve the original in case of issues, which is always a good approach. I'm not sure of anything other than manually doing it with dd that will guarantee a block level copy (at least that's software based, as there is hardware that allows for this that forensics folk use) |
| Jan 31st, 2009, 03:11 PM | #6 | Honourable Citizen | If it does a block level, then any data not yet overwritten by new data should be as recoverable on the cloned drive as the original.
Some recovery tools are Forensic level and look for traces of data that might have been erased or overwritten. Those will only be able to recover on the original drive. |
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