Carbon Copy Cloner

[Chiefcrowe]

has anyone had any experience with this, i am just curious:

http://www.bombich.com/ccc_features.html

 

[Spineshank]

I used it. Worked well.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

I used it. Worked well.

Same.

What are you going to be using it for?

 

[TheStu]

Fantastic tool, I have been using it for years.

 

[Need4Speed]

works great .. does what it says and does it well.

 

[HeXen]

nvmd

 

[Adramalech]

Amazing application and works very well. That and SuperDuper are pretty dang good programs at what they do!

 

[GhettoFob]

I always run CCC before I do any kind of OS X software update just in case things get screwed up. I've tried booting the duplicate occasionally and it always seems to work fine.

 

[MotionMan]

I use it all the time.

Awesome.

MotionMan

 

[dawks]

I just used it to migrate a boot partition to a new drive. Copied from my 320gig to my new 1tb. Worked flawlessly. And copies the bootdrive, even when booted from it.

 

[sjwaste]

I used it to copy my HD to a new SSD. Worked great, booted right up when I swapped the drives.

What's nice is that if you install a drive, it will remind you that the clone is not bootable if reads an MBR partition table. I had forgotten to go into disk util and recreate as GUID, so it saved me from an issue there.

 

[Eug]

For clones, I used to use it, but now I just use Disk Utility.

 

[umrigar]

best thing (to me) is you can de-select folders and/or files on the source drive to exclude them.

for example, to include only specific user folder(s), or none.

 

[erikistired]

CCC is an excellent program. i use it for cloning when i upgrade my hard drive, and it's always worked flawlessly.

 

[AnyMal]

What is the advantage of CCC over Super Duper? I am getting ready to upgrade my MBP's hard drive and will need to clone existing disk. Super Duper always worked nicely for me in the past.

 

[TheStu]

What is the advantage of CCC over Super Duper? I am getting ready to upgrade my MBP's hard drive and will need to clone existing disk. Super Duper always worked nicely for me in the past.

For just cloning, I think that they are about equal. SuperDuper does incrementals which I don't think CCC does, but CCC does something else that SD won't do unless you pay for it.