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Carbon Copy Cloner - 3.3

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	3.3
Release Date:	2009-09-23
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	28,976
Downloads (all versions):	93,289
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:

Added support for HFS+ filesystem compression that was introduced in Snow Leopard.
To correspond with how the Finder and Disk Utility report these values on Snow Leopard, CCC will now use base 10 for reporting MB and GB on Snow Leopard. CCC will continue to use base 2 to report these values when booted from Leopard or Tiger.
Improved the performance of backing up a large number of files with extended attributes.
It is no longer a requirement that CCC be installed on media that supports the setuid bit.
Added a bootability notification that will notify users when a target volume's underlying disk is partitioned with the MBR partitioning scheme (rather than the Apple-recommended GUID or APM partition scheme).
Increased the increment value of the disk image segment size stepper from 1 to 25. Now it takes mere seconds to get from 650MB to 4.6GB.
Addressed an issue in which the source and target menus would not be properly updated if a disk disappears unexpectedly in the middle of a backup task.
CCC now properly excludes the Time Machine database when backing up a hard drive using the "Backup everything" cloning method in file-level mode.
Much like the Snow Leopard update, this release includes hundreds of tweaks and adjustments to improve performance and reliability.

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

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The best - Version: 3.3, 1/16/2010 01:57PM PST

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lexe--2008

Oh man, CCC is just sooo good. I have used Macs for more than 10 years and I have pretty much tried every backup program under the sun (and wasted a lot of money with some of them).
I can tell you: If there is one program you have to have on your Mac this is the one to get! I'm currently using CCC to backup my Mac in Australia to a server in Europe - absolutely flawless!!
Please get that program and please give that guy some money - he really deserves it (And no, I don't work for him).

Always fine - Version: 3.3-b5, 9/14/2009 03:35AM PST

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Mac-Fan No 1

Can't imagine how to do my every day's work without CCC. Every machine in our company was installed with CCC and every complete Backup is done witch CCC. I don't use the scheduler so that's not important for me. I think, in the final version that problem will be solved.

Schedules not working... - Version: 3.3-b5, 9/13/2009 04:17PM PST

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Andreas..

The most likely reason for schedules not working after an update is having updated by hand. Use CCC's "Update CCC" menu item - check "Inform me of beta releases" if that's what you want, and click on "Check now". You will be guided to update any schedules correctly for the new version. If you download the new version yourself you should disable existing schedules before updating and then re-enable and save them. Using that menu item is easier! Help is available in the CCC forum.

Andreas