Most importantly, it can create bootable backups.
It can be used on Mac for data backup and restoration, hard drive copy and clone.
Best Alternative to Carbon Copy Cloner PC.
Thanks in advance for any comments.Are you looking for an alternative to Carbon Copy Cloner for Windows 10/8/7 to create a bootable backup and clone your hard drive? You come to the right place and we will walk you through a piece of professional Carbon Copy software for Windows: MiniTool ShadowMaker to back up your PC. I'm hoping the new 2T drive connected FW800 will not experience this same event. It then is momentarially found and I go on about my business but it is unsettling. Interestingly enough the eSATA drive (connected USB) frequently drops and I get a message that I have not properly ejected. Is it really correct that my 500GB WD MyBook USB drive or for that matter a 500 GB eSATA WD drive that I put in an enclosure would not be bootable if I put the clone on it? I've seen that referenced in several places but it doesn't seem real logical to me. As a result I figured it was time for me to do a better job and I ordered a LaCie 2T to use as it said it was bootable.
I read that all drives may not be bootable on an iMac. I do have a question for those more knowledgable than me. This is particularly important to me as I am running Parallels on the Mac as well and it seems like any time that needs to be tampered with it is problematic. Now I will be confronted with needing to restore and from what I have been reading Carbon Copy Clone is likely the way to go as I could boot to it and restore to the new drive. Hi - I had just been aimlessly using TM until I started reading information on the Segate Drive replacment program. Restore More Important with iMac Drive Replacement TM doesn't give you as much and therefore takes up more disk space. Sorry - forgot to add, CCC gives you much more flexibility over archiving/pruning files etc. CCC does.Īll in all, I would say CCC is much better for enterprise level network backups, if that's your thing. We are now trialling CCC, and it seems much better.įor network backups, I would say CCC wins hands down in terms of stability.Īlso, TM tends to slow Macs down quite drastically, especially when working on audio/video, so we had to use 3rd party software to schedule them to night time, as TM does not have this feature built it. We just couldn't get it working again, and didn't have the time to go through endless work rounds. TM gradually became more and more flakey with various updates, until it broke completely a few weeks back. Up until a few weeks ago, we used TM to back up 50 macs to a central xServe (sparse bundles). I run several Mac labs and studios in a university. Apple have got a bit sloppy with TM recently. Keep some backup copies off site.īut splitting a backup drive is counter productive. But after you connect Time Machine the chance of a drive failure causing lost data is small (to drives would have to fail at the time time for you to loose data.) so the next most likely cause is lightening hitting the power line a mile from your house or a fire or theft. Gues what? Everyone who has lost data do to a fire or theft said that a fire or theft is very unlikely. The threat to your data is not so much a hard drive failure but a power surge that will destroy ALL of the drives you have plugged in or a fire or a theft of the equipment. Then use a program like "Carbon Copy" to copy all your data onto a set of disks that you rotate through some off-site location. The best way to use Time Machine is to get is it's wn disk that is at least twice the size of the data you need to backup, at least 2X the size. If so that is pointless and a waste of time and space. Are you writing BOTH backups to the same eternal disk.