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From Mike Bombich:
Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it. Try it 'til you trust it.
The key to a successful backup plan is to actually do the backups regularly. When left to a human, the task often gets tacked on to the end of a very long list of other things to do. When you eventually have a catastrophe, the data is simply gone. You know that feeling -- you just lost six years of family photos. Your kids being born, their first birthdays, their first everything. The answer to this is consistent and regular backups, placed on a schedule and handled automatically by your computer.
CCC 3.0 features a new interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure more intuitive and more responsive. Users have better control over what gets backed up, and are provided with detailed information about the progress of their backup. In addition to general backup, CCC can also clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. CCC's block-level copy offers the absolute best fidelity in the industry!
What's new in this version:
Note for users of the "Backup to a remote Macintosh" feature: This update requires that you recreate the Authentication Credentials Installer package and install it on both your source machine and destination machine(s).
- Fixed an issue that caused creating new disk images to fail
- Fixed an issue that would cause backup to a remote Macintosh to fail
- Fixed an issue that caused "Failed to chown" messages to appear in the log and caused CCC to report that the sync... See all new features
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"Does the job, easy to configure."
Version: Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.5
Pros
Supports a variety of schemes (not just a "carbon copy clone"). Scheduled jobs or on-disk-mount launching. Academic discount (as in "free").
Cons
Sometimes mysterious error messages.
Summary
Best-of-breed for local bootable backup.
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"clean, fast, dependable"
Version: Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.4
Pros
Totally accurate copy of the whole system, bootable & everything. Options to archive changed files in subsequent operations; to automatically "prune" to a user-specified maximum size; to not delete other root items (not on source); very clean understandable interface. Can also set to run automatically at specified intervals.
Cons
None I can think of.
Summary
Good, fast backup utility which, unlike time-machine, produces an exact, readable and bootable, copy.
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"Best backup Software ever!"
Version: Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.4
Pros
Easily clones your hard drive to and external drive which is bootable.
Best feature is that the cloning can run in the background. Typically I run CC about 10 minutes before I am finished using the computer each day. Works like a charm; I can continue working while CC back up my hard drive.Cons
I don't know of anything I dislike about the program.
Summary
I recommend everybody use CC. If I have a problem with my hard drive I can boot into my CC clone on an external HD and repair it (much easier than booting off the CD). If I need to reformat my main HD and re-install the OS ad all files CC's cloned backup is the way to go.
Time machine is the way to go when you encounter a problem with a file or a program and need to replace the file or program Time Machine makes it easy to replace the file or program and even revert to an earlier version.
I recommend both CC and Time Machine for backups. CC is best when a HD needs repairing since you can boot off the CC clone and either repair the disk with disk utility and if disk utility cannot repair the disk use the CC and the external OS clone to reinstall all your files on your main disk.
Time Machine is best when one file/folder/program is corrupted or for some reason is not functioning. Time Machine makes it easy to go back to an earlier verson which will work. -
"Best backup software"
Version: Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.4
Pros
Accurate, fast and reliable
Cons
None- except the update has turned the CCC icon invisible in the Applications folder.
Summary
Tried others, but love CCC. It's easy and it does what it says it does, without fuss or error. I don't know what the recommended shareware payment is, but it's not enough.
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"Excellent sync software"
Version: Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.3
Pros
easy to use. all the options I needed.
Cons
none so far
Summary
very happy so far
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"Forget Time Machine. This does the job even better."
Version: Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.3
Pros
Backs up data. Provides simple or terrific advanced options. Easy retrieval of data.
Cons
None found.
Summary
This full-featured backup application let's you select exactly what to back up, if you want to delete outdated files first to save space on the backup drive, schedule backup tasks, and more. I struggled with Apple's Time Machine on my MacBook Pro, dealing with numerous errors during backup and even during data retrieval. Now I solely use Carbon Copy Cloner!
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"A very good disk cloner"
Version: Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.3
Pros
Easily clones a hard drive and if possible making the clone fully bootable. Incremental backups finish quickly on my home computer--typical time to finish an incremental backup is 5 to 8 minutes.
CCC has been a godsend. A few months ago I had a disk error the Apple Disk Utility was unable to fix. I was able to use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the backup copy of my primary hard disk. Within 45 minutes my Primary Hard Drive was restored. It would have taken less time to perform the restore if my back up Hard Drive was not USB based.
IMHO Time Machine is better for restoring a lost or corrupt single file or program. CCC is better when it is necessary to restore an entire drive (due to drive corruption). TM and CCC together comprise my backup stategy. I either TM's or CCC's back up copy happens to be corrupt I have a second back up to use. Just make sure that if you perform both a CCC and a TM backup you use two seperate Hard Drives just in case the entire backup Hard Drive fails.Cons
CCC is a very good program so I cannot think of any cons (base on how I use the program.
Summary
If you are looking for a Hard Drive cloning program consider CCC. I cna even set CCC to perform its cloning in the background. At the end of the each day I set CCC to perform a backup and launch Klondike Forever and by the time I have won a game of solitaire CCC has finished the day's backup.
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"Covers all your files."
Version: Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.3
Pros
It backs up and synchronise it all..
Cons
It assumes that you are synchronising everything that is on your computer, the disk, but syncs only your "home" folders when working with NTFS or FAT device. With GB of music and rich media on the same laptop as work and private documents the systems CCC provides a functionality seldom needed.
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"Does exactly what we need it to do"
Version: Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.3
Pros
Fast, configurable, and reliable
Cons
Nothing at all
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"does what i need"
Version: Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.3
Pros
does what i need
Cons
nothing i know of
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