

In this time period, you can utilize the complete features of Carbon Copy Cloner without any limit. Bombich Software offers 30 days free trial of Carbon Copy Cloner. It can perform bootable backups, incremental backups, Scheduled tasks, backup to Mac networks and so on.Ĭarbon Copy Cloner is an extremely powerful data backup utility owned and distributing by Bombich Software, Inc. It enables user to backup entire bootable startup volume into bootable disk image, so that user can restore the startup volume using disk image when startup volume fails to boot in. Moreover, now it is fully compatible with Mac OS X - Mountain Lion. In case of Carbon Copy Cloner, it is quite simpler and efficient utility with a lot of features you can't find in other disk backup utilities. But most of them are too complicated and inefficient.

There are many disk backup utilities available in market for Macintosh Operating System.


The current shipping version of Carbon Copy Cloner is 3.5.2. Also Disk Utility is the GUI interface to fsck, the File System ChecK utility used by Unix platforms, which I've also been written some code for on some of those Unix platforms I've worked on.Carbon Copy Cloner is one of the simplest and powerful disk backup utility for Mac OS X from Bombich Software. Speaking as a file system developer for Unix platforms since '95, and a Mac user since '88. It is NOT trying to verify the health of the physical disk. Carbon Copy Cloner is going to cause the disk to do more work and access more of the disk, giving the disk a chance to report more errors to Carbon Copy Cloner, than would be reported to Disk Utility.īesides Disk Utility is tying to make sure the file system structure is intact. So typically Disk Utility is ONLY going to read a few percent of the total disk blocks on the disk.Ĭarbon Copy Cloner needs to read every bit of the user data, as well as use the file system infrastructure to find all of the user's data. The directory entries, and the pointers to the user's data, but it does not actually attempt to read any of the user data. I'm sorry if this is not helpful, but I'm skeptical about how serious the CCC alert is.ĭisk Utility just looks at the file system structure. It reports a problem with the disk (read/write errors) before performing any operations, so I don't understand how it can be reading the disc more closely than Disk Utility, which takes an appreciable amount to time to look at the file system.
