Pros
Easy to use (deceptively easy).
Versatile and quite powerful.
Help is actually very helpful (what a concept!)
Lots of handy information hidden throughout.
Fast (Time Machine pales by comparison)
Cons
$40 (pricey, but worth every cent IMHO)
Charges for major updates, but it's worth it. A guy has to make a living, after all.
Yes, it used to be free, but it's really too good to give away. If you're considering SuperDuper to save ten bucks, don't bother--there's really no comparison.
Summary
The de facto backup standard for Mac, bar none.
Deceptively simple to use.
More versatile than any other backup program.
This program copies everything onto another drive, without destroying what's already there. That is, you can even use an existing Time Machine (TM) drive while continuing to use it for TM. You don't need to do an exact drive image copy to make a complete and fully usable duplicate of your drive. It can even make the drive bootable without destroying what's already there, including a recovery partition--just like OS X/macOS.
For anyone who is serious about having a true backup utility which can save your bacon when you need it most. THIS is the program to get. Online reviews don't do it justice; they really don't. People here who give it low ratings don't know what they're talking about. I have over 40 years experience with computers, so I know a good program when I see one. (There is really so much cräp out there, it's hard to trust anyone anymore. But this is the real deal.)
Pros
It was originally free!
Cons
Not any longer free
Summary
Don't waist you money.
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Reply by John_Anonymous on July 24, 2017
This program is worth twice it's price, IMHO. Just because it used to be free doesn't mean it's not worth paying for.
Don't waste your money on SuperDuper to save ten bucks, because it's clearly inferior in too many ways.
FYI, I have nothing to gain by saying any of this. I'm not the developer of CCC, don't know him, and get nothing for my comments. It's just that I recognize this program for what it is: the best there is--period.
Pros
It works ...
Cons
... But they charge you through the nose. One month after they switched from free-but-please-donate scheme, I went to donate to discover they'd changed to a $40 fee. So, I missed out, fine, I paid my $40. Then, in less than a year, they made it incompatible with Yosemite (you know, the FREE OS upgrade) and are charging another $20 for people who purchased "recently." That's $60 software in one year, and who knows how often they'll charge again in the future. No sympathy from email complaints, either.
Summary
Don't do it. Find other software with a respectable pricing belief system. I'm going to try ChronoSync, myself, they give you a 30 day trial period and free upgrades for life. But no matter what, I will never go back to CCC, even if I have to manually transfer all my files by hand.
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Reply by John_Anonymous on July 24, 2017
The developer must have spent a huge amount of effort creating this product, and giving it away for free built a big following. Yes, $40 is indeed pricey, and I totally sympathize with being charged $20 extra within a year of purchase--that seems just wrong to me regardless of how much extra work was invested in the upgrade. IMO, all users should receive a free upgrade within a year, just because it's the right thing to do to keep them happy.
Although I totally understand wanting to be reimbursed for years of hard work, alienating paying customers is not the right way to do it. I suspect I'll be out an additional $20+ when High Sierra debuts, but IMO it's worth it. I could have waited for the next macOS to debut so I could get a compatible version for my initial investment, but this program was too good for me to delay buying any longer, so I bit the bullet rather than wait. I'm just sick of Time Machine screwing up, and I won't settle or second-best.
Pros
Great product, works as advertised...
Cons
...unless you upgrade your Mac. Bombich are asking for money to upgrade to the current version just 5 months and 11 days after I bought it.
The version I bought in April 2014 will not run on my laptop so after just 5 months I am being forced into another purchase.
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Reply by pacific_frog on December 29, 2014
Me too, I'm so frustrated. I asked on a board I'm on, and I'm going to try ChronoSync. (No, I don't work for them.) They're $40, and guarantee free upgrades for life - the way it should be, in my opinion, for something that's a relatively small process in the grand scheme of things. I'm done with CCC.
Pros
The new version works perfectly fine. It puts a convenient icon in the menu bar.
Cons
The old version works perfectly fine also. I prefer the old version because I do several concurrent backups and I can see all the progress bars at the same time.
Summary
Unless there is something technically wrong with Ver. 3.5.7, or if Ver. 3.5.7 will not work with Yosemite, I'll use the old version.
Pros
This program can clone your source drive, including the OS. If your computer dies hard, you can take your external backup drive and connect it to another Mac with a compatible OS, and in System Preferences, Startup Disk, select and confirm your external drive as the boot drive, hit restart, and presto! You are up and running! Everything is there! A total disaster to up and running in just minutes! What other backup setup does that? On older PPC Macs, you also have this ability with a Firewire drive external setup (a USB port connection won't boot on PPC). On Intel Macs, USB will work. In addition, you have a lot of options on how to set it up, daily, weekly, monthly. It will remind you if your drive is turned off. Just turn on your drive when the reminder window appears, and it takes care of the rest. You can even select to have CCC automatically unmount your backup drive when the backup is complete. No more need to run your backup drive 24/7.
Cons
Let me know if you find any significant cons, because I can't really think of any. It's on every Mac I own now, all the way back to my PPC machines. The author is dedicated and responsive, and has regularly updated and improved this software.
Summary
If you want a setup that puts you back where you were faster than anything else out there, this is it. The ability of being able to boot on your CCC backup is just phenomenal. Note that Time Machine does not clone your OS like CCC does. You can't boot on a Time Machine backup.
Pros
Simple and clean. Absolutely perfect for migrating/upgrading disk drives. Also a great way to do back up work. Support is excellent. I had a specific question for them and they were exceptionally responsive and helpful.
Cons
None come to mind.
Summary
I have not needed to use Carbon Copy Cloner often. But when I did, it was a very useful and valuable piece of software. Bottom line, it saves me time. And to me, not much is more valuable than my time.
Pros
Works well
Cons
None to mention
Pros
CCCloner is a great product. I recommend a disk repair software be used to defrag and clear the volume after copying.
Cons
The CNET web site is very confusing with all the Downoload Now tabs which are not related to the product you are trying to download.
Summary
CNET should remove all the Free Download now tabs as they are all spam.
Also, Cnet should recognize all keyboards, not just Standard English which is a very limited unit.
Pros
Really an awesome backup app. Their email support is stelar too. I highly recommend this.
Cons
none that I can think of.
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Reply by dudemanla on November 9, 2013
I am using this in Mavericks and it works great. They updated it to work in Mavericks.
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