Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1 Backup/Cloning Utility Released
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 3.0 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!
Among the new Version 3.1 features are:
- Support for block-level disk-to-disk clones.
- Synchronization built-in, not bolted on.
- Support for backing up across the network to another Macintosh.
- Advanced scheduling capabilities -- Backup tasks can now be scheduled on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis, or you can indicate that a backup task should run when the backup device is attached (e.g. an iPod). You don't even need to be logged in for your backups to occur!
- CCC recognizes iPods specifically, allowing time for the iPod:iTunes synchronization to complete.
- The ability to drill down into folders to select exactly what gets copied and what doesn't (you can drill down indefinitely).
- Built-in software update feature notifies you when updates are available.
- Implemented rsync 3.0.0 to provide even greater fidelity when backing up using the "Copy selected items" backup method
- Improved the wording of options in the interface to make it more clear what CCC is doing
- Implemented "bootability" checks -- CCC now reports whether the backup volume will be bootable based upon the options you have chosen
- CCC now offers a dialog box to opt out of a backup task that is scheduled to occur when the target volume is reattached
- Resolved an issue in which an existing disk image selected as the target would not get mounted more...
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free/ uncrippled donationware
For more information, visit:
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
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