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.
Carbon Copy Cloner offers fast, incremental backups that copy only items that differ from the last backup, as well as checksum analysis of your backed up files, archiving and archive management, and backup task scheduling. With CCC, you can back up to a locally-attached hard drive, to a network volume, or to another Macintosh across your network or across the Internet.
- A Better Bootable Backup — your data, the operating system's data, all preserved impeccably on a bootable volume, ready for production at a moment's notice
- Simplest method to migrate to a new, larger hard drive, especially if you have lost your original Mac OS X Installation DVD
- Support for block-level disk-to-disk clones for super-fast upgrades
- Smarter & faster — Subsequent backups copy only the items that have changed since the last backup
- Archive past versions of your files and items that have been deleted
- Back up to hard drives, network shares or to disk images
- Schedule backup tasks on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis
- Configure a backup task to run when the backup device is (re)attached to your Mac
- Convenient "Defer or Skip" features allow you to dynamically reschedule or skip a backup that occurs at an inopportune time
- Email notifications keep you on top of your backups
- Back up to another Macintosh on your home network or across the Internet
- Back up to a disk image with optional encryption
- Back up to and from network shares
- Simple interface for indicating exactly what to back up
- Restore using the same process used for backup
- Backups are non-proprietary, so you can browse them or use them with Migration Assistant
- "Cloning Coach" offers proactive configuration advice and expert troubleshooting guidance when hardware or filesystem errors occur
Are you expecting some sticker shock now that you've seen that long list of features? Not with CCC! Our philosophy is that you should try the full-featured product until you trust it, then consider a donation to support the development of Carbon Copy Cloner. That's right — try ALL of these features, for FREE, let the software establish your trust, THEN donate. Isn't that the way it should be for such an important task? We think so too.
