Carbon Copy Cloner Documentation: English

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• General Overview of the Features of CCC

  • What does CCC cost?
  • System Requirements, Installing, Updating, and Uninstalling CCC
  • Choosing a backup volume
  • Formatting your hard drive for use with Carbon Copy Cloner
  • Release History
  • Credits
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• Example CCC Usage Scenarios

  • I want to clone my entire hard drive to a new hard drive or a new machine
  • I want to backup my important data or synchronize my backup drive to my boot drive
  • I want to backup my important data to another Macintosh on my network
  • I want to backup multiple machines to the same hard drive, each to its own disk image on the drive
  • I want my backup task to run automatically on a scheduled basis
  • I want to defragment my hard drive
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• Exploring the Basic Backup Options

  • Backing up everything: The venerable Full Volume Clone
  • Taking a more granular approach to backup
  • How do I restore files backed up using the "Backup everything" method?
  • Options to the "Incremental backup of selected items" method
  • What happens to data already on the target drive?
  • Configuring filters to limit what is backed up
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• Scheduling Backup Tasks

  • Scheduling a task
  • Additional Scheduled Task Settings
  • Managing and monitoring scheduled tasks
  • Deferring and skipping scheduled tasks
  • Frequently asked questions about scheduled tasks

• 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
  • Managing backups of multiple computers to one "backup server"
  • A caveat for backing up to a remote Macintosh that has no user logged in
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• Frequently Asked Questions and Troubleshooting

  • Getting more information about what is happening during the clone
  • What are "Input/output" errors, and how can I resolve them?
  • "CCC was unable to back up one or more files from the source volume because an item with the same name but a different type already exists at the same path on the target"
  • "The target capacity doesn't match the source capacity -- did CCC miss some files?"
  • Can CCC back up my BootCamp (Windows) partition?
  • CCC requires an HFS+-formatted target volume. Why? And how do I format my new hard drive as HFS+?
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• Getting the Most Out of CCC

  • How frequent should my backups be?
  • Performance Suggestions
  • Backing up large files, mounted disk images, and FileVault home directories
  • Clone to a subfolder on the target volume
  • Run a shell script (before or after) the clone operation
  • A closer look at how CCC determines the "bootability" of a target volume
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