carbon copy cloner

MacBook Pro 14" M1 Ventura v13.4.1 Carbon Copy Cloner v6.1.6 Created clone by doing CCC Legacy Standard Backup, then installing Ventura to that volume. Clone boots ok, but it then wants to upload all my icloud folders & files to icloud. Why? Random check of dates, times, & sizes does not...

Hello all, I hope that this is the right forum section I am looking at a backup solution and most of my research concludes that one of the best options is Carbon Cope Cloner, a software by bombich. As they state on their website, the app offers "Snapshots - Bring back files that you thought...

Hello, having learned to appreciate the Acronis bootable USB sticks in the Windows world, I've been looking for something similar for the Mac. I'd like to have a bootable "rescue" USB stick containing a compatible and working version of Carbon Copy Cloner to restore a CCC backup (dmg) to the...

Hey folks, been trying since yesterday to downgrade 16" MBP 2019 Monterey to Catalina. I have a Carbon Copy Cloner (been using for years) but first time I have to downgrade. Bombich provided me incomplete instructions before they left for the weekend, and I'm was hoping this was a 1 hour...

Finally, I have a guts to install Sorbet R15 thru CCC. I followed the instruction in the process from this site (hopefully I was right). It seemed that my old application went away. The application folder in my updated R15 is like a newly installed OS...:( I have to re-install it one by one...

Hi Macrumors! I am a long time macOS user and have encountered something I never saw before. I am using two external WesternDigital Drives since 2 years. One is a myBook and one a myBook Duo. They are connected with USB. Everything worked flawlessly. I used CarbonCopyCloner to automatically...

I've read a fair bit about this and still don't know the answer, so I ask in plainest way--can a bootable backup be made from this 2019-20 iMac 27" running Monterey 12.3? I can use CCC or SuperDuper, or any alternative commercially available as long as it's simple to use. For years I used...

Hi everybody, I'm planning on turning File Vault, but I don't know if it will mess up my backup routine. Currently, I do 4 backups a week of my entire macOS partition to an encrypted sparse image on an external drive, which gets backed up to another encrypted sparse image on my NAS on Sundays...

TLDR: I can no longer trust Time Machine and need a recommendation for a replacement that does the exact same thing; scheduled incremental backups of multiple volumes that keep as many older daily, weekly and monthly versions as the volume can hold, with automatic pruning, simple browsing of...

Hi, I have a few questions about Backups, Carbon Copy Cloner, and Time Machine. Any insight greatly appreciated! I’ve been using Time Machine to backup the two Mac laptops in my house, and Carbon Copy Cloner for (non-versioned) bootable clones, weekly and before OS updates. I’m now thinking of...

I recently updated CCC to version 6.0.5 since upgrading my Mac to Big Sur. I have 2 identical WD Elements drives. I keep one drive in the safety deposit box at the bank and do regular backups and swap drives regularly. With the older version of CCC I was able to have CCC see both drives as...

1. How does this work: if I have a CCC backup of my Mac from a computer with an older version of the OS than the new Mac that I want to restore. Is this possible to do? I also have a T.M. backup, but I've found restoring or migrating from T.M. to a new computer to be a less than flawless...

Dear friends, I have bought a license to CCC v6 for my 2020 M1 Mac mini with 256GB SSD. I have setup a daily backup of the whole disk to an external 500GB SSD, and would use this backup in case the mini completely crashed to restore the system (even though I still need to read if/how I can...

I try to copy via Finder a Time Machine folder (Backups.backupdb) from an external physical volume to another external volume. First I tried to copy it to a sparse bundle, but I got a strange "The destination has not enough space" error (although sparse bundles can grow as needed and the...

(MBP 2018 15” running Monterey) If anyone has any knowledge of CCC/backing up a failing hard drive please help I believe my external hard drive is beginning to fail, so I am attempting to back it up to a new one before it fails completely (i know, I should have done it sooner..) The original...

Hi, My MacMini's userfolder is on an external SSD, MacOS (Mojave) is on the internal drive. For black friday, I bought a larger SSD to replace my existing user folder SSD. I cloned the entire drive with Carbon Copy Cloner. Then restarted into recovery mode, to rename the new SSD to the same...

Hi all, I have been having issues with my external hard drive lately. I have a 2018 15” Macbook Pro running Monterey. My external HD has become extremely slow when loading, opening, transferring files, etc. but runs flawlessly when I use it at school on bigger iMacs. I have tried resetting the...

The Samsung T7 SSD 1TB in gray, blue and red is available from Amazon at the lowest price it has ever been @ $129. Looks like it is an early Black Friday discount. This drive would be perfect as an APFS bootable clone or data only backup to use with Carbon Copy Cloner. And it would work quite...

Hi everyone, I have a problem booting on my Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) disk image. It all started with me trying to have a look on Big Sur (stuck with catalina), but to prevent damage, I decided to clone my "Macintosh HD" volume and my "BOOTCAMP" volume with CCC on two distinct sparsebundle...

What is the best configuration to back up data with Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC)? Option 01: Copy original data to backup 01 Copy original data to backup 02 Copy original data to backup 03 Option 02: Copy original data to backup 01 Copy backup 01 to backup 02 Copy backup 02 to backup 03 I am...