Carbon Copy Cloner Reviews and details

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• Ask HN: Is anyone making money selling traditional downloadable software?

  Two macOS backup software are doing this: * https://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html * https://bombich.com. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?

  In no particular order: Prologue [0] - iOS Audiobook player, used Plex as a media source Overcast [1] - iOS Podcast player CleanShotX [2] - macOS screenshot/video/gif capture with annotation Drafts [3] - iOS/macOS note taking tool Paprika [4] - Cross platform recipe app YNAB [5] - "You Need A Budget" - web/mobile budgeting app 1Password [6] - Cross platform password manager Carrot Weather [7] - iOS weather app... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• How do you PRO guys backup?

  Favourite tool - Bombich Carbon Copy Cloner https://bombich.com/ Spent too many hours trying to fix broken TM backups to trust it and newer OS versions have no verification option or user API documents... Source: over 1 year ago

• Attemping to upgrade internal ssd by cloning internal ssd through 'restore' in DiskUtility. It's not letting me click the drop down in "restore from". Any help to move forward?

  I would forget about using the Disk Utility Restore function and download a 30 trial copy of Carbon Copy Cloner which can clone your internal SSD to the new external one. Just be advised you will need to use the Legacy option to make the clone since the default CCC cloning function now is “Data Only”. To select the legacy option Click on the Destination selector and choose "Legacy Bootable Copy Assistant". Source: almost 2 years ago

• Best checksum program for Mac

  If you're willing to switch programs, I believe Carbon Copy Cloner does verifications as well. Source: almost 2 years ago

• ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance

  My advice to retain your sanity: stop using Time Machine and use Carbon Copy Cloner [0] instead. It works. It keeps working. It has excellent documentation for any possible backup and restore cases. It is transparent about what it is doing. Time Machine works fine until it doesn't. And it won't tell you that a backup is broken until you try to restore from it. The errors are going to be cryptic. There is going to... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Clone Mac SSD for Backup

  Its not free but I would use Carbon Copy Cloner from bombich.com - been a user for many many years and always found them helpful when I've had issues. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Moving to a new SSD

  It's best to copy from drive to drive your folders using a backup utility that can be set to verify that the files have indeed copied exactly as they should at the destination. Get a trial of Chronosync or Carbon Copy Cloner to do that. Chronosync can even be set to verify already copied files, while you have to copy the files from scratch with Carbon Copy Cloner. You have to explicitly set this option in... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Trying to put 2006 iMac into target disk mode on Mac Mini M1

  Poke around CCC and find OS appropriate version, download and use trial option to clone your drive. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Cloning to a bigger SSD using Disk Utility

  Carbon Cloner should do the trick : Https://bombich.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• I need to copy one external TB3 drive to another external TB3 drive. The system drive is not involved. Just moving my external audio files to a larger drive. Is there an app I should use to do this? Copy all and drag and drop?

  Carbon Copy Cloner. It’s easy to use and works. 30 day free trial. It’s worth buying though. https://bombich.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Potential New User: Massive Install Issue…Help needed!

  You first need to complete a full backup to an external disk, either using Time Machine or, better: Carbon Copy Cloner — ideally two separate full backups. After all the data, apps and settings are erased and you complete any pending macOS updates you can use the apple Migration Assistant which will restore your data and settings from your backup disk. Important: do NOT select to restore Applications. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Disk space already full system data taking a whole chunk??

  Get a blank drive that can hold all the data you're backing up (the totla of all the drives you want to back up) - make a folder on it for each drive you'll back up. Get a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner and set up a backup task for each drive, and direct it to backup to those folders (like, you have an SSD called "media", make a "media" folder on your backup drive and direct CCC to put its backups there. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Can I have multiple Time Machine backups of entirely different files? (Explanation below)

  Maybe Carbon Copy Cloner is a better option for you. https://bombich.com. Source: about 2 years ago

• Mac backup - merge copying new files and replacing only updated ones?

  There are utilities that simplify and automate backing up, including Time Machine, CarbonCopyCloner, and SuperDuper!. I suggest seeing which one best fits your needs. Source: about 2 years ago

• Does anyone see specs on this computer that would indicate it would run slowly?

  Carbon Copy Cloner 6 Download Page. Source: about 2 years ago

• Looking for suggestions of backup software

  I use Time Machine for my startup volumes but use Carbon Copy Cloner for everything else. I've relied on CCC for going on two decades, I think. It's fantastic; solid as a rock and worth every penny. Lots of free updates. Source: about 2 years ago

• Is there a way to backup my External drive

  Carbon Copy Cloner will do as good a job as anything available to try and get your files from one external disk to another - if it can. It ought to be able to skip anything unreadable and perform tests and retries where necessary. Source: about 2 years ago

• Backing up multiple Macs & Linux to a single network drive using a Pi?

  For full control of Mac backups look to https://bombich.com and the Carbon Copy Cloner software - you can control this way better than TM AND the data is stored as flat files unlike TMs database structure so any corruption on the disk has less impact. Source: about 2 years ago

• Carbon Copy Cloner "best" external hard drive for daily backups?

  "Best" is relative but I'm looking for an external hard drive to make daily full backups of MacbookPro with Carbon Copy Cloner https://bombich.com/, you know like time machine but using CCC due is far superior than time machine. Source: about 2 years ago

• Clone of external HD

  I've been using Carbon Copy Cloner to do this for decades. Https://bombich.com. Source: about 2 years ago