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Background:

I never expected to have only command line access to my Mac, but the day has arrived! :) Due to a video card problem, any attempt to boot the normal OS or recovery partition results in a kernel panic. However, I can boot into Single User mode! (The screen has a bunch of green horizontal lines through it every other pixel, but it is still readable.)

I have checked and verified that my data is intact. I have a Genius Bar appointment to get the video card replaced.

I have a couple of backup drives on which I have CarbonCopyCloner backups of my computer, however these are out of date.

I want to back up my Mac from the Single User Mode command line using CarbonCopyCloner before I take it for the video card replacement. I

(I found this link on the ccc tool, but I don't think I have ccc 4 because that file doesn't exist on my computer (though the directory does)4.)

Questions are:

  1. How can I tell what version ofuse CarbonCopyCloner I have,3.5.7 from the Single User Mode command line?
  2. How can I use this version of CCC to update one of my full backups before I take the machine in for service?
  3. If this can't be done from the command line with this version of CCC, how else could I back up all data before taking it in for service (from Single User mode)?

Background:

I never expected to have only command line access to my Mac, but the day has arrived! :) Due to a video card problem, any attempt to boot the normal OS or recovery partition results in a kernel panic. However, I can boot into Single User mode! (The screen has a bunch of green horizontal lines through it every other pixel, but it is still readable.)

I have checked and verified that my data is intact. I have a Genius Bar appointment to get the video card replaced.

I have a couple of backup drives on which I have CarbonCopyCloner backups of my computer, however these are out of date.

I want to back up my Mac from the Single User Mode command line using CarbonCopyCloner before I take it for the video card replacement. I found this link on the ccc tool, but I don't think I have ccc 4 because that file doesn't exist on my computer (though the directory does).

Questions are:

  1. How can I tell what version of CarbonCopyCloner I have, from the Single User Mode command line?
  2. How can I use this version of CCC to update one of my full backups before I take the machine in for service?
  3. If this can't be done from the command line with this version of CCC, how else could I back up all data before taking it in for service (from Single User mode)?

Background:

I never expected to have only command line access to my Mac, but the day has arrived! :) Due to a video card problem, any attempt to boot the normal OS or recovery partition results in a kernel panic. However, I can boot into Single User mode! (The screen has a bunch of green horizontal lines through it every other pixel, but it is still readable.)

I have checked and verified that my data is intact. I have a Genius Bar appointment to get the video card replaced.

I have a couple of backup drives on which I have CarbonCopyCloner backups of my computer, however these are out of date.

I want to back up my Mac from the Single User Mode command line using CarbonCopyCloner before I take it for the video card replacement.

(I found this link on the ccc tool, but I don't have ccc 4.)

Questions are:

  1. How can I use CarbonCopyCloner 3.5.7 from the Single User Mode command line to update one of my full backups before I take the machine in for service?
  2. If this can't be done from the command line with this version of CCC, how else could I back up all data before taking it in for service (from Single User mode)?
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Back up Mac using CarbonCopyCloner with command line only?

Background:

I never expected to have only command line access to my Mac, but the day has arrived! :) Due to a video card problem, any attempt to boot the normal OS or recovery partition results in a kernel panic. However, I can boot into Single User mode! (The screen has a bunch of green horizontal lines through it every other pixel, but it is still readable.)

I have checked and verified that my data is intact. I have a Genius Bar appointment to get the video card replaced.

I have a couple of backup drives on which I have CarbonCopyCloner backups of my computer, however these are out of date.

I want to back up my Mac from the Single User Mode command line using CarbonCopyCloner before I take it for the video card replacement. I found this link on the ccc tool, but I don't think I have ccc 4 because that file doesn't exist on my computer (though the directory does).

Questions are:

  1. How can I tell what version of CarbonCopyCloner I have, from the Single User Mode command line?
  2. How can I use this version of CCC to update one of my full backups before I take the machine in for service?
  3. If this can't be done from the command line with this version of CCC, how else could I back up all data before taking it in for service (from Single User mode)?