Carbon Copy Cloner for Mac
Advanced backup and file copying utility for macOS.
Advanced backup and file copying utility for macOS.
Carbon Copy Cloner is an advanced backup and file copying application for macOS. Looking for something better than Time Machine? With just a few clicks you can set up CCC to make hourly or daily backups of your Mac. CCC can build extensive file version history that you can use to restore older versions of files, and files that you might have accidentally deleted. CCC's read-only snapshots also give you excellent protection against malware and ransomware. CCC backups are compatible with Migration Assistant too, so you can use them to migrate data to a new Mac.
Beyond those backup basics, CCC offers extensive auditing and verification. Have you ever wondered what all of that disk activity was? Has some application run amok? The list of files that change in each backup event give you unprecedented insight into what's changing on your Mac each day. Need to copy the entire content of one volume to another? We can do that in just a few clicks. But suppose you're planning to erase the source when you're done migrating data to a new disk? We all trust our hardware, but maybe not that much! CCC can reverify files that were copied, so you can be 100% certain that your files are safely stored on the new destination.
That's just a peek at what CCC can do. CCC can:
I purchased this software in early February, 2021. It has never worked. Good luck trying to get through to someone in customer support. And, oh yeah, I got a notice earlier this summer when I tried to update it that I'd just missed the cutoff for the update to be free, which was late February. Don't waste your money. It's so bad that I've gone back to Mac's Time Machine. And by the way, this wouldn't load unless I had at least one thing that I liked (see below). I put down "price," but that's a joke.
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