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1. CARBON COPY CLONER REVIEWS UPGRADE
2. CARBON COPY CLONER REVIEWS FULL
3. CARBON COPY CLONER REVIEWS PRO
4. CARBON COPY CLONER REVIEWS VERIFICATION

The dongle works again as long as I restart the MacBook. So did CCC actually finish the task 16 hours both times, or did it say task complete because the dongle seems to fail around 16 hours and just ejected the drive? I couldn't be sure and didn't want to risk it, and I didn't want to shell out £70 for the official apple dongle just in case it made no difference. So I attempted CCC again, and CCC completed the task at around the 16 hour mark, but the drives were ejected and wasn't charging again. I'd have to restart my MacBook for the dongle to work again. However I couldn't really trust CCC saying this because the dongle seems to break after 16 hours of continuous use, because both drives would be ejected and the MacBook would no longer be charging.

CARBON COPY CLONER REVIEWS FULL

So I'd leave the backup running, a full fresh one, next day when I would wake up, the backup supposedly completed successfully after 16 hours. Then I bought a 3rd party imitation HDMI/USB/Power dongle from curry's in the UK for £30 so I could power and backup to my external Sandisk SSD (it came with an adapter to change usb-c to USB so I could use it in this dongle). Now when I tried to CCC my drive to my backup drive via battery, my power would die before the backup would complete.

CARBON COPY CLONER REVIEWS PRO

The problem being now is I sold that MacBook Pro to my brother, and only recently got a MacBook 2017, which has 1 port. The deeper or initially hidden levels of CCC 6 are not always obvious from staring at the starting screen and the much improved Tips can’t always help you with those either.So in the past when I had a MacBook Pro 2016 with two usb-c ports this wouldn't have been a problem.

There’s a lot more even, which takes me to my only point of criticism: after having used version 5 for a good number of years, I needed to consult the user guide several times. Restoring from a CCC 6 backup is more powerful than it was with version 5 and the improved Task Filter offers support for respecting macOS “backupd” exclusions (those defined for Time Machine). Other functionality is found in the extensive toolbar. Many of the features you used to take a trip to the menubar for are now located in context menus for the source and destination volumes. You’ll get to see extensive information about the selected volume, using coloured labels and nice graphics. Yet other new features and improvements include a Snapshot Navigator that offers an easy way to explore older versions of files, per-task control over the file copier’s CPU usage, and the ability to temporarily pause a backup task.Įxcept for several ways to check whether backed up files are identical to those on the source, CCC 6 also gives you a lot more information about your source and destination volumes by clicking on the source or destination selector. It’s basic because it doesn’t offer all the niceties apps like ShotPut Pro and Hedge deliver, but it does create exact copies, which is what you use an offloading app for in the first place. These integrity checks and verifications allow you to use CCC 6 as a basic image or video footage offloader.

CARBON COPY CLONER REVIEWS VERIFICATION

Version 6 also sports advanced file verification at the end of a backup task that gives you an opportunity to verify files on the source and destination independently against a hash that was recorded when the file was last copied. The latter includes a list of transactions you can check. The first of this category of features is the visual comparison of source and destination, while a more deep-level new feature is the backup audit in the Task History. Other improvements revolve around data security and ensuring the backup is exactly the same as the source.

So, for example, you might set up the new scheduling option to backup to a permanently connected NAS, while scheduling backups to other media on a weekly basis. That’s in addition to all the other ways you can backup your content. CCC 6 can run a backup task when files are modified on the source and respects backupd exceptions. It’s a security annex efficiency feature that guarantees you won’t be surprised by the time a backup takes or the files that get overwritten or changed if you don’t activate SafetyNet.Ī new scheduling option allows you to throw Time Machine in the bin.

Version 6 comes with a task preview that shows the changes CCC is going to make before making them.

I’ve never had the idea CCC was slow, but the speed increase of the new file copying system is noticeable and if you’re waiting for a backup to finish, it guarantees one frustration less. It all starts with what Bombich calls their next-generation file copier that ensures faster backups, partly due to the app now leveraging the macOS FSEvents for quick updates to the destination.

CARBON COPY CLONER REVIEWS UPGRADE

The upgrade turns CCC into the most secure version of the cloning, backup and basic offloading application on the Mac. Carbon Copy Cloner has been upgraded to version 6 and it is worth every cent of the upgrade price.