Using carbon copy cloner to backup DAZ 4.9

MW_HNL

I bought a copy of Carbon Copy cloner.  It is very fancy and my room mate knows about how to use it which helps.  In theory I could teach it to search out every single important file used in any way by DAZ 4.9 across both the system and data drives and the application folder and back up everything so in theory after yet again another soul crushing sudden loss of all my hours of configuring custom content etc go poof, I could run "restore" on that complicated task which ferrets out all the parts scattered about and clones them.  In essence taking me back to last Wednesday or whenever by overwriting every single byte used by DAZ 4.9 everywhere on my system with what was working fine then. (and hopefully will not be "fixed" the instant I dare to log into Smart Connect again).

Question is:

Can anyone list all the files hiding here and there one has to back up to make this idea  work?  There are the obvious ones which you can find in the directories you taught DAZ 4.9 to use for data both Connect clone and the Studio originals for all the purchased content.  But then there are the files in libraries and the applications folder itself and possibly something else critical hidden away in a place I would not think to look.

There has to be a way to back up DAZ 4.9 completely so after a devestating (yet again) disaster you can rewind time to before you hit that last keystroke and get back hundreds of manhours making custom folders so you can find all  your stuff when you need it.  Including the exported user data file of course.

Carbon Copy cloner has all sorts of tricks to assemble a task that will ferret out files all over the place and back them up in a single master task which should be able to just restore DAZ 4.9 to what it was last week or whenever you were smart enough to yet again run this backup task.

Is all this in vain because in fact any logging into Smart Connect after making the backup is likely to invalidate it?  I try to connect to Smart Connect virtually never but sometimes it is essential to get new purchases to work.  I am still unclear on why DIM is not just still used.  It seemed to work fine. Classified above my pay grade I guess.

Thanks for suggestions and input in advance.

DAZ 4.9 is working for me with my current configuration and habits and I actually spend more time rendering and designing than fixing another catastrophic crash.  This is just the sort of time the devil in the details strikes. There HAS to be some way to backup DAZ 4.9 completely and reliably restore it. 

All input accepted including "read this post idiot" --- and a pointer to where this is all described in detail.

TauAlphaC

I too, would like to know how to backup DAZ 4.9 and all my "stuff" ~ I had my computer crash and luckily got it restored with no loss.  I found all the files and content and put on a flash drive.  How do we backup our "stuff" and restore if computer crashes?????  Thanks for any input.

IceDragonArt

I would like to know as well.  I haven't found a flash drive big enough.....