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and CCC, since it's doing incremental backups, is really fast.Carbon Copy Cloner 4.1.4 Final is a robust Mac backup tool design to create a copy of hard drive and entire system of a Macintosh computer. Macs have been multitasking for many many years you can run CCC, listen to music, surf the web, etc. And during a CCC backup, is the computer fully functional or does it have restricted functionality? Can you run other software/programs, use the internet etc while the backup is taking place?

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Pretty sure it's writing to a drive that ages it, and reading is a free overhead.

Just thinking aloud here - I don't know if that would somehow wear a drive quicker if a complete clone of your system was taken 3-4 times a week. In fact, i'm sure there's some kind of scheduling built in - but i only use it for one-time copies and never fiddled with it beyond that. I do it this way as i only use CCC for direct 1:1 copies whereby i can replace the HDD instantly and boot back up - i've always done it like this so a bit of a historic thing for me to hold a like for like drive, with a clone on it.įor frequent backups (every 1-2 days) i really don't know if CCC would be my choice, but hey, if that's what you prefer then yes every 2 days should be easy. I actually plug an internal drive into my tower, clone direct to that drive, power off and remove it and store it somewhere safe. Mine takes an average of about 30 minutes i would say. no one should have to say that in 2020 (or 2002, for that matter).ĬCC time depends on the size of the source partition and whether it's on an SSD or HDD, and also what target you're cloning too (i.e USB/USB3/FW/TB drive). i am amazed when someone loses their data, and says they've been 'meaning to back up'. also (& i am sure i'm in the minority), i want a mirror of what's on my mac if i delete something, i don't need it back in the future.Įither way, whatever you use. I use CCC solely for backup i like the control i have over what gets backed up (i skip the apps, which i'd reinstall in an emergency, yet backup the logic app support folder, for example). I do think that CCC is a 'best of breed' tool for what it does – which is different from what Time Machine does. External hard drives are ridiculously big and cheap now, so yes you can certainly use both. After I back up my iPhone to my computer, I immediately back up the computer.Ĭarbon Copy Cloner is really a different beast, and its purpose is exactly what its name implies.

When I finish making an important change to a project, I click on 'Back Up Now' and take a short break while Time Machine does its thing. You can very easily look through past versions of anything that has been backed up. Every now and then you glance down at the external hard drive and see that the light is blinking. I like Time Machine because it's built-in and always quietly working.

as they also should techincally be cloned elsewhere too.īacking up is a pain really, and if you've ever suffered losses before that's cost you time/money then it's easy to become over OCD about it. Things get trickier when you're archiving out to local disks. But make sure you have at least a local and external backup to be on the safe side, and at least one you want to be incremental for file rollbacks. So yeah, CCC for a true boot disk clone 100% over time machine. But that's mainly because my internet connection would take days to restore everything from scratch. If i had entire system failure i'd restore my newest CCC (If i'm busy/lazy i can be 3 months away from my last clone) - which is basically my entire OS and it's apps/settings - and then i would restore data i needed from cloud. CCC for me is more of a failsafe, and i feel comfortable knowing i have the entire contents stored locally. Time machine is set and forget, very easy to setup and integrates well with MacOS - it's never failed for me personally - but it won't create a boot drive as such, it gives you the option of restoring a boot drive to your SSD/HDD via the MacOS recovery options though.ĬCC i've only used for complete system snapshots which i do 5-6 times a year manually now, and that does create a bootable drive - you can clone to a second drive.Īs long as you have a local backup which you can use for quick rollbacks and an offsite/cloud backup you're golden or most situations.