I need to do incremental backups of hard drives. The best program I've used is Carbon Copy Cloner but since upgrading to a new OS it no longer works. I'm thinking about buying the new one....but I'm wondering if there is any free backup program people might recommend instead.
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I need to do incremental backups of hard drives. Anything but Carbon Copy Cloner?
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"Time Machine is an easy Mac backup solution built into OS X that allows for automated continual backups of files, apps"
here is a non- macrumors link I am sure there is a official macrumors one some place.
http://osxdaily.com/2015/07/12/set-up-time-machine-backups-mac-os-x/
Some people also like SuperDuper!
here is a non- macrumors link I am sure there is a official macrumors one some place.
http://osxdaily.com/2015/07/12/set-up-time-machine-backups-mac-os-x/
Some people also like SuperDuper!
Besides Time Machine (which may be fine, but I don't trust it in an emergency.) I broke down and bought CCC . Totally worth it, especially if you want to have multiple clones of this drive or that. I use a rotation schedule and use bare 2.5 spinners in a spare bay of a Blackmagic Design Multidock II.
I believe in using multiple backup methods and testing them regularly. I currently use Time Machine to multiple destinations, CCC, and CrashPlan for off-site.
CCC works fine (well at least for me) with all recent Mac OS, you may need to get update. Fully agree that Time Machine is good recommendation for op's question.
Similar to other posts my backup strategy is Time Machine for local "live" backups, CCC for scheduled (weekly or daily) backups and CrashPlan for off site running in background. And also support good point made that whatever backup method is used, it should be tested regularly!
Similar to other posts my backup strategy is Time Machine for local "live" backups, CCC for scheduled (weekly or daily) backups and CrashPlan for off site running in background. And also support good point made that whatever backup method is used, it should be tested regularly!