Existing users, 
Carbon Copy Cloner
Comprehensive bootable backup solution.
Version: 3.3
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Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: Duckhue Monday, February 07 2005 @ 10:09 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
Recommend Product: NO
For God sakes NO. I lost my whole system using this thing. They have ZERO support too. They just tell you to go to some forum to read about a bunch of other people that got screwed by this. The safest and best way to clone your system is to use Apple's Disk Utility or SuperDuper. All the rest have let me down. Carbon Copy Cloner was the worst of the worst. I lost hundreds of antique family photos plus software that could not be recovered.
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STOP - Andreas..
Mathue,
You are obviously trying to be helpful. but do not get sucked into the nonsense here. CCC may, if someone does something wrong, make a bad clone, an unusable, useless clone – but it CANNOT affect the data on the source. If that were not so no intelligent person would ever risk using it.
Bad clone? Quite possible. Solution? Start again following the instructions more carefully. Still a bad clone? Ask a question at (click —>)Bombich forums and try again; try as many times as you like but THE DATA ON THE SOURCE REMAINS INTACT, REMAINS UNALTERED, UNCHANGED, UNTOUCHED. The clone/copy/duplicate may be "lost", but the original always remains unaltered for you to try again – CCC CANNOT cause you to lose your original data – ever.
Andreas
Sunday, February 13 2005 @ 08:41 AM PST
STOP - Duckhue
Yes the originals were fried in a fire. I made a clone of my main drive using CCC. Right after that my main drive fried and when I cloned it using the backup, the backup was not good AT ALL.Wednesday, May 04 2005 @ 06:09 PM PDT
STOP - sbowen
Well, I've been using CCC regularly and all I can say is, "Operator error..."Saturday, April 30 2005 @ 11:58 AM PDT
STOP - Duckhue
With SuperDuper or Disk Utilities there is no chance of User Error. With CCC it's like a mine field. There are thousands of people on the so called forum that agree with me.Wednesday, May 04 2005 @ 06:05 PM PDT
STOP ?? - Dantre
Been using CCC for over a year... never a problem. Did you delete your material before checking whether or not it had been properly cloned?Monday, May 02 2005 @ 05:23 AM PDT
Go - Pacoloco
find someone to teach you something about computers. Logic dictates that if your data is important to you, you verify the integrity of your backup rather than just blindly trust ANY piece of software, since software is written by humans, who, as you have so elegantly illustrated, sometimes make mistakes. Too bad you direct your anger at having lost data at an application that is a front end to well-known Unix commands in the underpinnings of OS X, and not the person who failed to do the most important step of backing up by not verifying something so important. Let Apple know they don't know what they're talking about, since it's on their own OS X software page. Maybe they can remove that buggy Unix stuff too.Carbon Copy makes file-to-file transfers. Disk Utility does block copies. When performing block copies, the structure of the source remains intact, meaning unlike file-level copies, existing disk directory corruption in the source will also be present on the destination volume when block copying is used. Disk Utility is no safer to use than any other backup method. You have your one unverified failed backup experience, and I have over a thousand successful backups a year I perform as part of my job. What are your qualifications again?
Friday, May 06 2005 @ 06:55 AM PDT
STOP - Mathue
Uh, can't you just rescan them? Or were the originals physically destroyed somehow?Seriously though, have you looked back at your other reviews? A large number of people seem to hit 'No" when asked "Was this helpful? Yes | No"
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Monday, February 07 2005 @ 11:25 PM PST