Bombich Software Announces Carbon Copy Cloner 6 Featuring Faster Backups, Quick Updates, Snapshot Navigator, and More

[baryon]

Nice! With all the talk about how many backup apps there are out there, honestly they mostly all suck when you want them to be reliable and to work for years and years without having to redo everything periodically. It's nice to have something robust.

For example, I use GetBackUp Pro and while it kind of works, it's not a robust app. When you start a backup, it will spend hours doing "something" before it even writes to the disk. There is no useful progress bar, time estimate, or anything. It won't auto delete old backups, it will just tell you, after hours and hours, that the backup disk is full and it's up to you to free up space. Most other apps have similar annoyances.

CCC seems like a good choice.

 

[Mac47]

Just reading all the replies here shows that my own feelings about CCC are shared by everyone who uses it: Bombich is a class act, the pricing is fair, and the app has saved people’s data countless times.

I wish everyone could be like Bombich. And I hope he is profiting handsomely from his excellent creation.

 

[DotCom2]

What about making a Big Sur bootable backup on M1? Has that been resolved?

 

[lars666]

Just reading all the replies here shows that my own feelings about CCC are shared by everyone who uses it: Bombich is a class act, the pricing is fair, and the app has saved people’s data countless times.

I wish everyone could be like Bombich. And I hope he is profiting handsomely from his excellent creation.

Subscription model muppet developer, take notes!

 

[TiggrToo]

Subscription model muppet developer, take notes!

The world has totally changed since the old days of purchasing software licenses.

Few companies can afford to do one off purchases these days - subscriptions help pay the bills and may allow the app to stay being developed.

Sure the model could be tweaked, but it’s not going away so you might as well get used to it.

 

[lars666]

The world has totally changed since the old days of purchasing software licenses.

Few companies can afford to do one off purchases these days - subscriptions help pay the bills and may allow the app to stay being developed.

Sure the model could be tweaked, but it’s not going away so you might as well get used to it.

I'm with you with some app categories ... However, I personally will never pay a monthly subscription for a calender app, weather app – and also not for a backup software app, for that matter. (Willing to pay a good one-time price, of course, like I do for every major new version of CCC.)

 

[fhall1]

Still running 10.14.6 - this might push me to finally upgrade to Catalina - been using CCC since I went from Windows to Apple in 2007

 

[Yodalogger]

I didn't even read the features, just upgraded from 5 to 6 because that's how good CCC is and their support has been amazing. Total faith for the team!

+ a zillion

 

[TiggrToo]

I'm with you with some app categories ... However, I personally will never pay a monthly subscription for a calender app, weather app – and also not for a backup software app, for that matter. (Willing to pay a good one-time price, of course, like I do for every major new version of CCC.)

You’d not pay for a weather app? Are you aware that accessing weather APIs costs money????

 

[ignatius345]

Best $40 I've ever spent

 

[bchah]

Of all the software I use, CCC is the only one where I don't even flinch at the thought of a paid upgrade. Since macOS Tiger that has only happened twice and it's paid for itself in terms of utility 100 times over. Purchased immediately.

 

[MacinMan]

Best $40 I've ever spent

Was this a first time purchase? I upgraded for $20. If you had the option to upgrade, you probably spent an extra $20 you didn't have to.

 

[ignatius345]

Was this a first time purchase? I upgraded for $20. If you had the option to upgrade, you probably spent an extra $20 you didn't have to.

You know what, I misspoke. I was thinking of my original purchase price and didn't realize this version is a $20 paid upgrade for me. Happy to pay it! Been using CCC for probably about 10 years now (since back when it was donation-based) and it's saved my butt many times in addition to just plain making data management safer and easier.

 

[MacinMan]

You know what, I misspoke. I was thinking of my original purchase price and didn't realize this version is a $20 paid upgrade for me. Happy to pay it! Been using CCC for probably about 10 years now (since back when it was donation-based) and it's saved my butt many times in addition to just plain making data management safer and easier.

Either way you got a great deal.

 

[Weaselboy]

Can it backup to cloud servers (e.g. Amazon Glacier)? Local back-ups are great, but off-site backups are also essential.

No... but take a look at Arq for that.

Cloud backup software for Mac and Windows : Arq

www.arqbackup.com

 

[ashleykaryl]

I purchased CCC 5 about 6 months ago after many years of using SuperDuper. I do like version 5 and it's not immediately obvious why I would need version 6, though I shall probably do so, knowing that it is likely to offer better compatibility for the next 3-4 years with OS updates.

 

[Weaselboy]

What about making a Big Sur bootable backup on M1? Has that been resolved?

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/29910276/

You can... but it is really not worth bothering any more. See this helpful post from @Mike Boreham.

 

[W2u7Yw4HaD]

Never used CCC. Can it run incremental backups to a network drive (NAS)?

Well, likely.. But you'll never be able to run a bootable copy easily off a NAS back to your machine.. The idea of this backup solution is mostly so you have an exact running copy of your backup.. It's more then a backup.. Since you can boot from the drive...

Having said that, I found booting from a spindle disk is pointless really.. If you want a usable backup, you'll need to be backing up to an external SSD...

 

[0134168]

Great program, great update cycle / pricing policy – paid for my upgrade from CCC 5 immediately.

Same here. Runs ver very fast.

 

[DotCom2]

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/29910276/

You can... but it is really not worth bothering any more. See this helpful post from @Mike Boreham.

Thanks for the link!
So basically, if your internal SSD goes out, you are SOL. NICE! I guess it will sell more Apple Care though.

 

[macintoshmac]

I have been thinking, while today is as good a time as any, why not time it for a Fall release with the new macOS? The only reason that comes to my mind is that the dev does not want to get inundated and delayed due to whatever code changes the new macOS might require.

 

[AF_APPLETALK]

I’m going to rain on their parade… You can buy this application for $40, or you can spend not even ten minutes learning how to use rsync.

 

[macintoshmac]

I’m going to rain on their parade… You can buy this application for $40, or you can spend not even ten minutes learning how to use rsync.

$40 it is. This dev is not the one who just releases software for the heck of it. This is also not like DayOne, where we are paying annually since 2017 for improvements and innovations such as the ability to text our journals instead of just opening the app and typing in it.

CCC may look easy but this is a serious piece of software where the reputation can go down the drain with one botched up backup. I am sure the dev would have spent more time in perfecting and ironing out the software to minimise issues than the time he might have taken coding the interface and the functionality.

 

[Macintosh IIvx]

Surprised no obvious mention of M1 support. This was a big question early on as to whether it'd be possible to create a bootable backup... (or was it Big Sur?)

CCC rocks!

First line of the second paragraph....

Apart from offering the ability to make bootable backups on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs,

 

[Mac_tech]

I purchased CCC 5 about 6 months ago after many years of using SuperDuper. I do like version 5 and it's not immediately obvious why I would need version 6, though I shall probably do so, knowing that it is likely to offer better compatibility for the next 3-4 years with OS updates.

The upgrade price is only $20, a steel if you ask me. I don't use ccc all that much but might upgrade later.