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 Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:11 am Post subject: Carbon Copy Cloner 3.5 Released |
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Carbon Copy Cloner 3.5 Released
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Posted by: Staff
Bombich Software has announced the release of Carbon Copy Cloner 3.5, a major update of their popular disk cloning and backup utility for Mac OS X. According to the release notes, this update adds support for Mountain Lion and compliance with GateKeeper. It also includes Recovery HD and performance improvements, as well as updated high-resolution graphics for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display. Carbon Copy Cloner 3.5 weighs in at 8.6MB and requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
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Bandit Bill
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:36 am Post subject: |
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Very nice to see.
I've been bouncing back and forth between CCC and SuperDuper for years! Usually based on the first to release a copy compatible with the new OS.
Hopefully this version of CCC has a simple interface for making a bootable clone. The previous version was very feature rich, but I found it a bit confusing. |
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I had no issues with this with mountain lion
great program and it works nicely |
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It doesn't look like CCC is free anymore.  |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 4:45 am Post subject: |
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| scooper wrote: | | It doesn't look like CCC is free anymore. |
Correct, it's paid software now...
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I appreciated that they seemed up front about why they went commercial and in fact makes me feel a bit better about using a program like this. I've seen to many shareware programs fold or cease development, now I'm deciding if I want to jump to ML right now and use CCC or hold off a few weeks. Sale is good through August 12 on CCC though as I recall.
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But what's wrong with Time Machine®?
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| James T Kirk wrote: | | But what's wrong with Time Machine®? |
Time Machine isn't a bit for bit clone. It's not bootable. Unless you restrict the partition size, the back up grows and grows and grows until the hard drive is full.
Time machine has benefits, but so do bootable clones. I use both.
Bootable clones are also very nice for troubleshooting. You can boot from a known working state. If the issue is gone, you know you have a software issue.
If your boot drive is starting to fail, you can boot off of your clone drive until it is convenient to replace your boot drive.
There are lots of reasons for making bootable clones. imaging multiple machines etc. etc. etc. |
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OK, agree, it depends how you want to use it.
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