Software to Clone Mac OS X – Cloning Backup

While working on our Mac machine we come across various situations or heard news of critical data loss or inaccessibility to data. There could be many reasons for this, like it can be accidental deletion, crash, bad sectors in hard drive or can be physical damage to hard drive etc. So, any instance can cause data loss because these are quite accidental and it is impossible to avoid them completely.

Therefore, users have to take precaution in the form of taking regular backup of their vital data because recovering all lost data is not always possible. Recovery also depends on things like status of drive etc. And waiting for losing data and then recovering it by using some recovery software is not a good idea. At the time of data loss, situation really gets to your nerves, when something worse happen to your backup drive . Suppose while doing some work your Mac corrupt and fail to boot. There is Recovery HD available to boot your Mac machine. But what if it also refuses to boot? So, it is always good to make a bootable clone of your Mac OS and Recovery HD.

Cloning is an inventive technique to create an exact sector by sector copy of Mac drive/volume/partition etc. One can also make the image of Mac drive and it can be saved at a safe and desired location, so that one can used them whenever required to restore lost data back.

However Time Machine is an adroit solution for taking backup. It is a feasible tool used for making clone and for taking incremental backups for basic or small file system. But in order to get advanced features of making bootable clone of Mac drive and recovery HD as explained above, you should go for third party software like Stellar Drive Clone. By having a Mac cloning tool, one can immediately create a cloned copy of their Mac drive, once you get any sign of failure. One need not to be tensed about your deleted data, as it can easily be restored from the cloned image.

Stellar Drive Clone software usually offer three main tabs. One can make clone of the whole Mac drive or selected volume, and other can make image of the selected drive/volume and the third 'Restore' restores your drive. You can copy Mac OS X and can also create bootable clone using this tool. This software also support SSD , which I will explain in my upcoming blog. It is pretty useful and easy to use application to clone Mac drive/volume. It has interactive GUI which provides advanced features with ease of usage. It is beneficial to have a bootable backup of your Mac drive as it minimizes downtime and expense of Machine.