Are you going to pay $30-$40 for Carbon Copy Cloner?

[MotionMan]

CCC is now a commercial product

With other good free options out there, like SuperDuper! (which also has a commercial version), I think this is the end of CCC for me.

Should I reconsider?

MotionMan

 

[mhenr18]

While I'm not particularly a heavy user of disk images, I've always been able to get away with Disk Utility for any imaging I've had to do.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

I would just use SuperDuper. It does everything that I need it to do it.

 

[billthackrey]

CCC is now a commercial product

With other good free options out there, like SuperDuper! (which also has a commercial version), I think this is the end of CCC for me.

Should I reconsider?

MotionMan

Depends on how cheap you are I guess. I've been using CCC for a LONG time and it has saved my bacon a number of times. I've already sent Mike some shareware funds twice just because I wanted to support him. It's a GREAT product and I have paid far more for crap software from the big guys. I gladly paid the $29 for the App Store upgrade. I make my living as a software architect. I'm perfectly fine supporting good guys who write good code.

 

[umrigar]

CCC has some nice features.

first of all, it will remain free for 10.7 and earlier.

i like that you can exclude folders or files from your clone. the free version of SuperDuper can't do that, and neither can Disk Utility.

for example, you might want to exclude a certain user folder on the copy.

considering what programs like Toast and the Adobe suite cost, $30-$40 for a great product isn't horrible. and Bombich does a great job with CCC.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I'll probably break down and buy it someday or convenience's sake, and will continue to recommend it as well as SuperDuper to people who want to backup but don't want to use Time Machine for some reason.

But personally, I've been using hdiutil from the CLI for a long time.

 

[mmntech]

It was a good program but there will always be some open source product out there somewhere that will do as good a job.

 

[Tyranicus]

There are free alternatives, but I have been using CCC for years, and it has worked very well. I am going to buy it because I feel that I have certainly gotten $30 use out of it over the years.

 

[imagoon]

I have always preferred file level imaging myself however when I need a disk image I tend to use clonezilla.

--edit--

oh hey I am in apple land whoops. This might not apply. It does list HFS+ and UFS support though.

 

[Tyranicus]

I have always preferred file level imaging myself however when I need a disk image I tend to use clonezilla.

--edit--

oh hey I am in apple land whoops. This might not apply. It does list HFS+ and UFS support though.

CCC is file level imaging.

 

[Dug]

I personally like clonezilla. Free and easy. The defaults work just fine.
You can create an image or go disk to disk.
It will also do a bootcamp partition at the same time, which no other program can do.

 

[slugg]

CCC has some nice features.

first of all, it will remain free for 10.7 and earlier.

i like that you can exclude folders or files from your clone. the free version of SuperDuper can't do that, and neither can Disk Utility.

for example, you might want to exclude a certain user folder on the copy.

Nifty! But if you exclude something, won't it not be a carbon copy clone? :awe:

 

[ViRGE]

In all honesty, probably not. Mike Bombich kicks total ass (was fortunate enough to have him as a consultant for a time), but I don't use CCC nearly enough to pay that kind of money for it.

 

[manly]

I realize the imaging question gets asked around here every few months but I Googled before revisiting this question.

Are there any gratis alternatives to CCC for cloning in Mountain Lion? I think it needs to be file-level because I'm going from a 500 GB spindle disk drive to a 256 GB SSD drive.

Besides the MacBook running ML to be cloned, I can still boot Lion or Snow Leopard on an older MacBook. I don't think it's a good idea to clone ML with the older CCC 3.4.7, not to mention I gave away my FireWire cable which probably rules out target-disk mode.

Any suggestions welcome. Sadly, it'll probably have to go over the USB2 bus with an adapter.

 

[Rottie]

MotionMan, do you have a big money job? If so, I think you should reconsider.

 

[Spineshank]

I still use the free version. Cloned a ML disk with no issue.

 

[MotionMan]

MotionMan, do you have a big money job? If so, I think you should reconsider.

Why? Should people who make a lot of money waste money just because they can afford it?

MotionMan

 

[fr]

I previously used it to make full backups of my computer. Now I just use Disk Utility.

 

[rtrt]

Been using it on and off for a long time.

Donated a bit over the years which Mike B recognises by giving you a licence - i think that's a fair approach.

Is it worth what he charges now - personally i think if you have multiple Macs/Hacks then you'll get your moneys worth

 

[Rottie]

Why? Should people who make a lot of money waste money just because they can afford it?

MotionMan

I don't know. If I don't make a lot of money I would not afford anything. I can't afford an apt myself, believe me.

 

[Zaap]

CCC was well worth $40 for me. I don't mind buying software that I find extremely useful. I'm not one that believes developers should starve because everyone wants to download everything for free.

The ability to do scheduled incremental bootable backups to a LAN is worth its weight in gold. All my machines at work and at home are two minutes away from a complete restore from virtually any sort of hard drive failure, they're all backed up with incremental bootable clone images to LAN and offsite servers. That peace of mind is worth more to me than $40 by far.

Of course, if you don't need it, then why would anyone pay for what they don't need?

I need to know that no matter what, I won't miss a deadline even in the face of the worst possible drive disaster. No other tool I know of can do what CCC does without some hoop-jumping, and nothing else I've tried is faster.

 

[manly]

CCC has a fully-functional 30 day trial which worked great today. I don't feel that I use it often enough to purchase, but a half off Cyber Monday deal would spur me to open up the wallet.

 

[Kaido]

I'm a SuperDuper guy (hehehe). Glad that he is making a pay-for option tho, he does good work and should definitely charge for it :thumbsup:

 

[manly]

CCC has a fully-functional 30 day trial which worked great today. I don't feel that I use it often enough to purchase, but a half off Cyber Monday deal would spur me to open up the wallet.

FWIW I'm having issues with the SSD post-cloning but I don't think it has anything to do with CCC.

The unibody MacBook already has one bad RAM slot and had the SATA cable replaced. I'm afraid it's again something RAM-related or the SATA cable (the shop had said this is a commonly replaced part).