Desperately Seeking Disk Images - PLEASE HELP

Hi all,

I've got to a point where i can't afford to keep buying expensive drives to work form so decided to just work from several high spec drives and then back them up on other cheaper drives, reformat the high spec ones and start again.

Not really understanding how disk imaging works I hoped I could carbon copy mountable and read and writeable drives (in this case a thunderbolt lace SSD) on to a cheaper mass storage, wipe it and start again. I hoped it would then appear on the drives top level just as the drive appears on my desktop, and that I could access it if needed or port it back to a single drive at a later date? Is this possible? Can anyone help? So far everything I've tried has failed.

One thought I did have was to create several partitions on the cheaper mass drive and duplicate it on to there? But I can't find any help or instruction for this online and need to make sure its write before I go deleting old projects.

Attached are a picture of what I have (the disk image file) and what I was hoping to create (a mountable replica of a working drive on an external HD)





Any help greatly appreciated.

Robin

Use Carbon Copy Cloner to "append" backup. You only need to "clone" a system drive to make it bootable, but you shouldn't be running Libraries and media off of a system drive. Even with a "clone" you can do "append" clone backups that don't take long at all.

Thank you, I did this and partitioned the back-up drive in to matching parts and then cloned them over, changing the names afterwards so that the behaviors are the same. Thanks again.