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Configure the Task

Configure CCC as if you were going to run a backup task immediately, selecting your Source and Destination. Click the dotted box below the Schedule heading to view the scheduling options.

Design a Schedule

Select when you would like the task to run from the drop down menu. If you would like the task to run at a regular interval, choose to have the task run on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis. If you would like to have the task run when the source or destination volume is reconnected to your Mac, choose the Run on disk appearance option.

Make any desired changes to the schedule and then click Done.

Name the Task

Click on the task title Untitled and provide a name for the task.

Save the Task

Click Save.

Your backup...

On the eve of World Backup Day and with stories like the Atlanta ransomware attack still in the news, now is a great time to revisit your backup strategy. It's also a great time for us to announce some great new features that we're getting ready to deliver as a free update to CCC 5 users – features that will help you improve your defenses against ransomware and malware.

Versioned backups with APFS Snapshots

CCC 5.1 offers support for point-in-time restores by leveraging the snapshot feature of Apple's new APFS filesystem. CCC's SafetyNet feature offered similar functionality to this in the past, but snapshots take it to a new level, allowing you to do things like restore a previous version of the OS and older versions of your Photos library.

CCC is also the first comprehensive snapshot management utility for macOS. Browsing the contents of any snapshot is just a click away, and should you want to delete a specific snapshot (whether created by CCC or Time Machine), just select it and press the Delete key. How much space are those snapshots consuming? CCC can tell you that. No other utility offers this much insight into your APFS volumes'...