And if you have questions, their tech support responds within a day or two often within hours. But as for me, I find CCC superior to SD Of course, YMMV (your mileage may vary)!ĭownloading and installing CCC is easy-peasy and the set-up is quite intuitive. Some/much of your decision (CCC or SD) will boil down to what you, the user, prefer. But make no mistake, there are a few minor disadvantages these are noted below.īut before I go too far, be advised, comparing CCC with the competition harkens to “Printer Wars”. Well, the simple answer is that with the passage of time, and as my computer skills increased, I appreciated the extra capabilities CCC provided. In the spirit of full disclosure, for several years I used the principal competitive product, SuperDuper! (SD), and always found it first-rate both from a technical and support perspective. Parenthetical: The developer of CCC, Mike Bombich, is himself a clone. Without doubt, CCC is a 5 star application! I have no reservations in recommending CCC to any/all users, regardless of their skill level. The purpose of CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) is to make bootable backups (full or incremental) on any schedule you desire. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.8 through 10.12.6 Overview & Conclusion Remember people, data doesn't really exist until it's in at least two places, preferably three or four.Carbon Copy Cloner v4.1.13 by Harvey Rubinstein Jan 2017 Each of these things functions like a pseudo-backup, so if I do lose my local data, there's at least a good chance I'll still be able to access my key files from my phone or a loaner computer. My email is based on GMail my current documents all live in DropBox my contacts etc. This way, if your apartment/house/whatever goes down in a fire, you still have something to fall back on you haven't lost your life's worth of data.Ĥ. I store an external hard drive in a completely different building and bring it in once a week to backup everything. This way if something goes wrong you lose almost no working time you can be up and running in a minute.ģ. Time machine on an internal or NAS drive is great for this.Ģ. Whichever the option, backups are extremely important, and these tools can help you recover from a sticky situation.ġ. Simply choose the Chimera option from MultiBeast and target the cloned drive. Please note that if you make a full clone backup using Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper, you'll still need to additionally install the bootloader to make the drive bootable on a CustoMac. As with every update, we've polished and improved many other aspects as well." Of course, it still includes great features likeBackup on Connect, Eject after Copy, Sparse Bundle support, lets you store a bootable backup alongside Time Machine backups, copy Time Machine backups to other drives, and run scheduled copies on demand. "The latest version of SuperDuper! is faster, better, compatible with Mountain Lion (in fact, it's compatible with OS X 10.4.11 and later), and improves many parts of the user experience. Super Duper is shareware which means that is free to download and run, however in order to unlock additional features such as scheduling and smart updates, you'd have to buy it for $27.95. Lastly, there is Shirt Pocket's Super Duper which has also been updated to support 10.8. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide
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