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Carbon Copy Cloner - 3.2

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All Time:	(4.5)
Version 3.2:	(4.0)
Selected Version:	3.2
Release Date:	2009-03-18
License:	Shareware
Downloads (version 3.2):	8,151
Downloads (all versions):	81,391
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:

Prior to version 3, CCC would not delete items at the root level of the target volume if those items were not present on the source volume. This was a convenient feature, but due to some fairly significant underlying changes in CCC 3, that feature was not brought forward. This feature is now available again in version 3.2 and later via the "Protect root-level items on the target" option. See the documentation for more details on the implementation of this feature.
Implemented filters support for remote source volumes.
CCC no longer disables non-HFS formatted volumes in the source and target lists. Rather, selecting these non-supported filesystems as a source or target will produce a helpful dialog box indicating how to proceed with those volumes.
The description of what will happen during a "Backup everything" task has been updated to more accurately reflect what actually occurs.
CCC now correctly reports on the bootability of mirrored volumes on PowerPC systems.
Resolved a few minor issues with cropped text in non-English localizations.
CCC will now report IO errors via a dialog box every time they are encountered. Previously, non-IO related errors encountered after IO errors would take precedence, and IO errors would only be reported in the CCC log.
Addressed an issue in which CCC would fail with a generic error when running out of space for temporary files on the target volume.
Included an updated version of rsync 3.0.5.
Resolved an issue in which locked folders caused synchronization errors in rare circumstances.
Resolved several rsync-related issues related to getting, listing, setting, and removing extended attributes.
Resolved an issue in which CCC would prompt the user to run a scheduled task (with a remote Macintosh as the target) when the network connection was re-established even if the task had been explicitly deferred.
CCC now creates its own key pair for ssh communication with other Macs on your network, rather than using any pre-existing key pairs.
CCC now mounts disk images at custom mount points in /tmp rather than in the default location of /Volumes.
Resolved an issue in which disk images could not be created on AFP or SMB network shares.
Resolved an issue in which the failure of certain built-in tasks would indicate that there was an error with a preflight script.
Several updates to the documentation: Expanded on the Tips section, added extensive coverage of the new "Protect root-level items on the target" feature, updated instructions on restoring from a disk image, minor updates to the "Backing up to a remote Macintosh" section (plus a large addition on backing up multiple Macs to a single "server"), and added several items to the FAQ section.

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

Feedback Summary:

Version 3.2:
Overall Rating:	(4.0)	Features:	(4.2)	Support:	(4.0)
Ease of Use:	(4.8)	Quality / Stability:	(4.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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

(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)

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

(3 of 3 users found this comment useful)

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

Wow - Version: 3.3-b5, 9/13/2009 02:49AM PST

(6 of 8 users found this comment useful)

Macs Pain

It seems CCC is now cloning at least 5 times faster than before. :)
But unfortunately I do not get scheduled tasks to run any more. :(

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