Carbon Copy Cloner MacOS - micro review
Carbon Copy Cloner - micro review
Carbon Copy Cloner a.k.a. CCC is a donation-ware disk duplication application for Apple Mac MacOS. I recently used the app to successfully move my data from a HDD to an SDD and I decided to give it a go as part of my regular backup system. Here’s my mini review…
My gripe with the app is that while the scheduled events do start on time, even waking the computer up to do so, the app doesn’t keep the system awake. This means that your power settings are likely to cause your system to sleep and therefore the backup to pause in the middle. This of course means that it will resume when your computer wakes again and that will most likely be when you get back on your system in the morning to start work and be faced with the rest of the backup job.
Further to this last point, if you have ‘sleep when done’ as a setting then it will do just that. Good in one sense but not good when it’s resumed because you’ve woken it up and you’re in the middle of some work and then your system just drops to sleep. I appreciate this is as designed but the app should recognise who woke the system up and only sleep if it woke it up.
Summary
On the whole, it’s a great free disk duplication software for MacOS with a few gripes related to scheduled backups that can be worked around.
