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Getting started with CCC
- Installing, Updating, and Uninstalling CCC
- What's new in CCC
- Establishing an initial backup
- Preparing your backup disk for a backup of Mac OS X
- Restoring data from your backup
- Carbon Copy Cloner 3 Release History
- Credits
- CCC License, Registration, and Trial FAQs
- Carbon Copy Cloner's Transition to a Commercial Product: Frequently Asked Questions
- Trouble Applying Your Registration Information?
- Features of CCC specific to Lion and greater
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Advice from the experts
- The Disk Center
- The Cloning Coach: Expert advice for common error conditions
- Performance Suggestions
- Help! My clone won't boot!
- A closer look at how CCC determines the “bootability” of a destination volume
- Backing up large files, mounted disk images, and FileVault home directories
- How frequent should my backups be?
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Backing Up to disk images or other macs on your network
- Backing up to a disk image
- Restoring from a disk image
- Using Carbon Copy Cloner to backup to another Macintosh on your network
- Restoring from a backup on a remote machine
- A caveat for backing up to a remote Macintosh that has no user logged in
- Managing backups of multiple computers to one “backup server”
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Backup and archiving settings
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Example backup scenarios
- I want to clone my entire hard drive to a new hard drive or a new machine
- I want my backup task to run automatically on a scheduled basis
- I want to backup multiple machines or hard drives to the same hard drive
- I want to backup my important data to another Macintosh on my network
- I want to back up my whole Mac to a Time Capsule, NAS, or other network volume
- Backing up to/from network volumes and other non-HFS volumes
- I want to defragment my hard drive
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Frequently asked questions and troubleshooting
- Can I run a backup while I'm using my computer? If I have open files, will they be backed up?
- “CCC found multiple volumes with the same Universally Unique Identifier”
- “A block-level copy cannot proceed due to media errors”
- Getting more information about what is happening during the backup
- Can CCC back up my BootCamp (Windows) partition?
- Some applications behave differently or ask for the serial number on the cloned volume. Did CCC miss something?“
- Can I back up one computer and use the clone to restore another computer?
- “The disk usage on the destination doesn't match the source -- did CCC miss some files?“
- What makes a volume bootable?
- Will CCC clone Apple's “Recovery HD” partition?
- Computer-specific preference files -- caveats to migrating to a new computer
- Cloning a Time Machine backup
- Finder or App Store finds other versions of applications on the backup volume
- I have a clone created by another application. Will CCC recognize that data, or will it want to recopy everything?
- Antivirus software may interfere with a backup
- How long should the clone or backup take?