Forums
New posts
Articles
Product Reviews
Policies
FAQ
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Is Carbon Copy Clone Enough
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1002037" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>I think it might help to explain the differences in how the two products work....</p><p></p><p>CCC makes a clone of your hard disk as it is at the time of the backup. This is handy for catastrophic hard disk failures, since it makes recovery a snap.</p><p></p><p>Time Machine, on the other hand, is more focused at the <em>history</em> of your data. While it does a full backup, on-going backups catch the original file and all revisions. This is handy, not only for catastrophic failure, but also if you want to capture specific revisions to a document.</p><p></p><p>So, it all comes down to how much protection you want. For me, a clone is adequate. But if you're working on documents and often save over top of the originals, it might be handy to be able to revert to previous versions.</p><p></p><p>One caveat though, since there are multiple redundant copies of data kept, you're going to want a drive that is much larger than your data. So, if you routinely store 50GB of data, make sure that external has 4 times that amount so that you do get the benefit of Time Machine's ability to store revisions to that data. Otherwise, you derive no benefit over and above what CCC can do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1002037, member: 24098"] I think it might help to explain the differences in how the two products work.... CCC makes a clone of your hard disk as it is at the time of the backup. This is handy for catastrophic hard disk failures, since it makes recovery a snap. Time Machine, on the other hand, is more focused at the [I]history[/I] of your data. While it does a full backup, on-going backups catch the original file and all revisions. This is handy, not only for catastrophic failure, but also if you want to capture specific revisions to a document. So, it all comes down to how much protection you want. For me, a clone is adequate. But if you're working on documents and often save over top of the originals, it might be handy to be able to revert to previous versions. One caveat though, since there are multiple redundant copies of data kept, you're going to want a drive that is much larger than your data. So, if you routinely store 50GB of data, make sure that external has 4 times that amount so that you do get the benefit of Time Machine's ability to store revisions to that data. Otherwise, you derive no benefit over and above what CCC can do. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Is Carbon Copy Clone Enough
Top