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Carbon Copy Cloner

Carbon Copy Cloner - 3.1.1

comprehensive bootable backup solution

All Time: (4.6)
This Version: (4.0)
Current Version: 3.1.1
Release Date: 2008-07-07
License: Shareware
Downloads (this version): 18,656
Downloads (all versions): 849,169
Price: $10.00

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Product Description:

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.

CCC 3 features a new interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure more intuitive and more responsive. Users have better control over what gets backed up, and are provided with detailed information about the progress of their backup. In addition to general backup, CCC can also clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. CCC's block-level copy offers the absolute best fidelity in the industry!

What's new in this version:

  • Included version 3.0.3 of rsync (minor bug fixes).
  • Fixed a bug in which clicking "Proceed" when plugging in a target volume does not cause the scheduled task to proceed if that task is scheduled to back up only when the target drive is reattached.
  • Fixed a bug in which extended attributes on a file would not be preserved if that file was locked on the source volume (only affected the "Backup everything" backup method).
  • Fixed an issue in which CCC would not report success if minor errors were encountered. Upon encountering minor errors, CCC now reports that the backup task completed, but encountered errors. This also permits any post-backup tasks to occur, such as blessing the target volume and running post-backup scripts.
  • Fixed an issue in which deferred tasks would run late if the machine slept.
  • Fixed an issue in which the CCC application would not launch if it was initially installed by another user on the system.
  • For the "Backup everything" cloning method, CCC no longer defaults to erasing the target device. CCC will warn if an existing OS installation on the target may conflict with the installation that is being backed up.
  • Implemented support for block-level cloning to a disk image (when the source volume can be unmounted) and improved the performance of file-level backups to a disk image. These changes represent a 2-5x performance improvement.
  • Disk image segmenting now works as advertised.
  • Resolved an issue in which choosing to encrypt a disk image would cause CCC to hang on Leopard.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

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Overall Rating: (4.0) Features: (5.0) Support: (5.0)
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Carbon Copy Cloner ReviewVersion 3.1.1 does cause issues with Leopard - Version: 3.1.1, 8/10/2008 12:47AM PST

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dwhitton_dotmac
As well reported on the CCC Forum, using ver 3.1.1. with OSX 10.5.4 breaks Adobe Apps and Preview. This is proven - also my me. Also well known by Apple. It would be very nice to know that Max B is working on this and a new version will be available soon as a fix. But no news is forthcoming. Zilch. Has anybody used SuperDuper and does it work without issues ? It costs £27-95 but if it works instead of causing problems - that's a small price to pay. Apple advise against it but they too are not always right.
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Carbon Copy Cloner Usage TipThe ads, and how to remove them... - Version: 3.1.1, 7/13/2008 04:22PM PST

Andreas
No-one likes the ads, including Mike Bombich. Read what he says about them in this thread, and how easy it is to stop them from appearing.

Andreas, Moderator forums.bombich.com
 
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Carbon Copy Cloner CommentaryAdware supported! I dont want banner ads. - Version: 3.1.1, 7/11/2008 01:10AM PST

anothersphere--2008
Suddenly I am seeing advertising banners in this application! I did not authorise this, I did not ask for this, I do not want this. Pretty sneaky! I donated to use the product some time ago. Somewhat unimpressed by this development!
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