2018.3 & 4 Running Well Here.

[grayter1]

Originally Posted by JFreak

Carbon Copy Cloner -- just clone your system drive in working condition and you have a copy available to boot from if you're too busy to clone it back to your system drive.

NVIDIA updated the display driver this morning and I'm back up running. Now I'm off to purchase Carbon Copy Cloner...

tg

[Emi]

Originally Posted by TOM@METRO

Anyone running this at higher sample rates?

Running at 96 and 192 here with good results.

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by grayter1

NVIDIA updated the display driver this morning and I'm back up running. Now I'm off to purchase Carbon Copy Cloner...

tg

And make sure the drive you backup to is not connected or at least turned on all the time. Less of a chance on it getting mucked up. Neat thing with CCC is you can set it to work on a schedule as well as manually. CCC can also do what they call a 'safety net' which if you're backing up to a drive you've backed up to in the past it will put the files that have been replaced by new versions in the safety net so you can go back if you so choose.

[TOM@METRO]

Originally Posted by Emi

Running at 96 and 192 here with good results.

Thanks, Emi.

[climber]

Originally Posted by Ray Lyon

A couple of upgrade questions...

When I upgrade from 12.8.1 to 2018.3 can I rename the older PT app icon to 12.8.1 to preserve it in case there is a problem? Will the older version launch as is with no problem even though the new updated HD Driver is installed?

If I have two or more older versions on my Mac can I go back to any of the earlier versions by launching the older version directly from the Applications folder?

Thanks for your help!

Yes and yes, Mac only...

[Ray Lyon]

Thank you Al!

[StillHollow]

And for us Windows 10 users, what is the best AND easiest Carbon Copy Cloner alternative to use ?

[The Weed]

Originally Posted by StillHollow

And for us Windows 10 users, what is the best AND easiest Carbon Copy Cloner alternative to use ?

Macrium Reflect works very well for me and has great options. Others like Paragon.

[LightWing]

Only using it half a day so far...not bad.

See my possible PT 12.8.3 and/or Xpand!2 BUG thread I just started.

[profdraper]

Originally Posted by StillHollow

And for us Windows 10 users, what is the best AND easiest Carbon Copy Cloner alternative to use ?

In my experience, there is *nothing* like CCC for Win10, unfortunately. If you are familiar with CCC then I suggest you have a scan of the relevant Win10 manuals for backup software before purchase and that will be immediately clear. eg:

In a scenario here using both system disk back up, plus several data SSDs and a RAID - variously for video, audio, sound libraries, other documents etc.

• CCC is very fast to make back-ups, especially once beyond the initial full. The Win equivalent is usually not by comparison.
• CCC can check all backups very quickly and then make updates to each image *simultaneously*; Win10 equivalents are much slower and can only update one image at at time, one after the other.
• Biggest issue for me: Win10 software assumes some kind of office model and insists on setting up scheduled times for backup, like at 5pm when you 'go home' 'from work'. Yeah, right ....This is also quite laborious /boring to set up because each and every backup plan has to be manually fiddled with, timed disk schedules to avoid each other etc.
• With CCC: for data disk backup 'schedule' I use 'when source or destination is reconnected'. This means that when I simply turn on my external JBOD array, CCC sees that and does quick, simultaneous backups at a time of my choosing, or in combination with regular scheduled backups. Some Win10 software provides for what appears to be similar as 'on event' commands but in my experience this is both poorly documented and unreliable.

FWIW, the two most consistently, highly rated Win10 backup solutions are 'Acronis True Image' and StorageCraft's 'Shadow Protect'. But they work as per the above comparison.