Tri-Edre Clone X - 3 User Guide

Clone X 3

USER GUIDE

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Table of Contents

Introduction ........................................................................................................... 5

Welcome! ................................................................................................................... 5

Overview .....................................................................................................................5

System Requirements .................................................................................................. 6

Thank you for registering ..............................................................................................6

Updates .....................................................................................................................6

Installation ..................................................................................................................6

Uninstalling ................................................................................................................. 6

Launching and Registering the Software .........................................................................6

Technical support ........................................................................................................7

Contacts .....................................................................................................................7

Preferences ........................................................................................................... 8

Main Window ......................................................................................................... 9

Clone a Disk ........................................................................................................ 10

Choosing a clone mode ..............................................................................................11

Choosing source and destination volumes .................................................................... 12

Options ....................................................................................................................12

Clone a disk (creates an exact copy of a volume) .......................................................... 14

Copy to a disk containing other data ............................................................................15

Copy a disk into a folder .............................................................................................16

Restore a disk ..................................................................................................... 17

Restore Modes ..........................................................................................................18

Restore options ......................................................................................................... 18

Restore a disk from a copy .........................................................................................19

Restore a disk from a copy into a folder ....................................................................... 19

Advanced restore ...................................................................................................... 19

Tools ................................................................................................................... 23

Bootable DVD ........................................................................................................... 24

Disk Comparison ...................................................................................................... 27

Create a minimal System disk .....................................................................................28

F.A.Q. .................................................................................................................. 29

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Introduction

Welcome!

Thank you for purchasing Clone X !
Clone X is the quick and simple way to create copies of your disks, to restore your disks,

as well as to create your own bootable CD.

Overview

Clone X is built to copy an entire disk to another disk, while preserving all its caracte­ristics. Thus, you can create a copy of your bootable volume, and then it will be possible
to startup from this copy.

Clone X also includes features to create your own personal bootable Mac OS X DVD.

Note: Clone X copies an entire volume. It is not possible to backup only a part of a
volume. To do that, you should use backup software, such as Tri-BACKUP. For the res­toration process, Clone X allows to restore a selection of files or folders if you need to
restore a part of the data.

Clone X can copy any volume mounted on the Desktop of your Mac: internal disks, ex­ternal disks (FireWire, USB, etc.), cartridges, DVDs, etc. You can boot on copies made
with Clone X (except when the disk is copied into a folder).

Important! Some disk may not boot depending on the machine you have. PPC
machines (G4 and G5) needs Firewire connections to boot on external disk. Intel
machines can boot on USB and Firewire Disks. See Apple’s documentation and
disks manufacturers documentations.

Disks mounted through a network (server) are not handled by Clone X, because it is not
possible to preserve the caracteristics of a volume and its files when copied through a
network.

Note: To transfer the contents of a disk via a Network, first make a clone into a disk
image with Clone X, and transfer the disk image via the Network. Then restore (or copy)
the disk image to the desired disk using Clone X.

With Clone X, you can easily:

• Duplicate and copy your volumes, including your startup disk.

• Restore your hard disks.

• Create a minimal Mac OS X System disk.

• Create bootable Mac OS X DVD.

• Compare the contents of two volumes.

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System Requirements

NOTE! Clone X runs only under Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Clone X requires Mac OS 10.4 or later, 512MB of RAM, a DVD burner if you want to
create bootable DVDs.

Thank you for registering

A registration card is included in the software package. Please complete and submit the
form to enable your access to technical support and timely notification of updates and
product news from TRI-EDRE.

Updates

Visit our web site at http://www.tri-edre.com to ensure you are always running the most
up-to-date version of Clone X. Updates can be downloaded directly from the site using
your assigned serial number. There is no charge for updates to the same main version
number—your Clone X 3 license includes all updates from 3.01 through 3.99 as they
become available.

Installation

Simply drag the Clone X application to your Applications folder. If you downloaded
your copy of Clone X, open the disk image and copy Clone X to your Applications
folder.

Uninstalling

To completely remove Clone X 3 from your hard drive, quit the application and drag the
following items to the Trash:

• The Clone X 3 application.

• The com.ted.Clone X 3.plist file from your user ~/Library/Preferences folder.

• The Clone X 3 folder from your user ~/Library/Application Support folder.

Also delete the disk images remaining in the folder you selected in Preferences for the
DVD creation.

Launching and Registering the Software

Double-click the application icon to launch Clone X. You will be asked to enter your
Administrator password.

At first launch, enter your serial number at the prompt (sent to you by email, or located
on a sticker on your CD) to activate all of the features of Clone X. Be sure to keep your
serial number in a safe place.

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Technical support

First of all, you should examine this manual, and the FAQ at the end of this manual. The
latest FAQ is available on our web site.

If you do not find the answer to your questions, free technical support can be accessed
by email, fax or phone. Please have your serial number and software version number
handy before calling, and be sitting in front of your computer with Clone X running.

Contacts

Please contact TRI-EDRE directly if you have comments, problems or questions about
Clone X, this user guide or the TRI-EDRE web site, or require additional licenses or a
site license.

TRI-EDRE

22 Place de l’Église - BP 111

83510 Lorgues (France)

Email: [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Phone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

Web site: http://www.tri-edre.fr or http://www.tri-edre.com

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Preferences

You can access Clone X preferences in the Clone X 3 menu. You can change the fol­lowing settings.

Leave CPU time to others applications

Default settings is ACTIVATED. When this setting is activated, Clone X will run with
a lower priority than other programs. This allows you to continue working while Clone
X is working in the background. When deactivated, all programs will share resources
equally.

Use Mac OS X Background

Default setting is ACTIVATED. When this setting is activated, Clone X will use default
aqua color for windows background. When not activated, Clone X will use a unified
gray for all windows, except sheets, dialogs and warning messages.

Bootable DVD creation

With default setting, Clone X will ask for a destination folder for disk images each
time you create a new DVD. If you want to always store disk images at the same place,
change this setting and choose the folder where you want to create files (Clone X will
no more ask you each time).

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Main Window

After launching Clone X, the main window appears. This window is divided into se­veral sections, which provide access to all features.

Features are organized into three groups. Click the buttons on the top of the window to
access each group:

• Clone shows the various modes to copy a disk to another disk, or within a folder.

• Restore can put a disk back to a previous state and contents.

• Tools access other functions: disk comparison, bootable CD creation, minimal
System installation.

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