Restoring data from your backup

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Because CCC backups are non-proprietary copies of your original volume, you can navigate the contents of your CCC backup volume in the Finder and find your files exactly where you would find them on the original source volume. If you need to restore a single file, you can copy it directly from your backup volume in the Finder. CCC is not required to gain access to your data. If you have a larger restore need, though, CCC is ready to help make the restore process as easy as it was to back up in the first place.

Carbon Copy Cloner's Transition to a Commercial Product: Frequently Asked Questions

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Is CCC 3.5 "donationware"?

No, CCC is no longer donationware. In order to grow our support and development team, we have made the transition to a commercial product. This will allow us to to continue offering frequent updates to our software, including new features. This will also enable our stellar customer support to remain that way. Transitioning from donationware to a commercial offering underscores our commitment to deliver the best OS X cloning and backup utility on the market.

Carbon Copy Cloner 3 Release History

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v. 3.5.7, September 2, 2014

  • Addressed an issue in which CCC would report that it could not connect to a network volume whose hostname ended with ".local".
  • Some users use a third-party unarchiving utility, "Keka", to unarchive the CCC distribution. This utility was incorrectly unarchiving extended attributes on some files in the CCC distribution archive, which led CCC to report that its application signature was invalid. This update removes these exteneded attributes to avoid problems caused by third-party unarchivers.

v. 3.5.6, August 4, 2014

Trouble Applying Your Registration Information?

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Your registration code is tied to the name and email provided when the license was purchased. If your email or name are entered incorrectly (capitalization matters!), the license will show as invalid.

To ensure that the license information is applied correctly, just open your license email and click on the "Click Here to Register CCC" button to automatically apply the settings (if prompted, select CCC as the application to use when opening the link).

Credits

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Localizations

I would like to thank the following people for their generous help in translating CCC into other languages:

Establishing an initial backup

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One of the most common uses of CCC is to establish a bootable backup of an OS X startup disk, or to migrate from a smaller disk to a larger disk. The steps below will guide you through this common scenario. For more scenarios, see the "Example backup scenarios" section of the documentation.

Features of CCC specific to Lion and greater

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Clone Apple's Recovery HD

Carbon Copy Cloner offers full support for cloning the Apple-proprietary "Recovery HD" volume. More detail on this feature is offered in the Cloning Apple's Recovery HD partition section of the documentation.

Installing, Updating, and Uninstalling CCC

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PDF

You may download a complete set of the documentation in PDF form here: Carbon Copy Cloner Documentation

CCC License, Registration, and Trial FAQs

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Thanks for trying Carbon Copy Cloner! You can try the complete feature set of CCC for 30 days before purchasing it. Use that time to explore CCC's automated, incremental backup functionality, make a bootable backup, move your digital life to a new hard drive and get peace of mind.

Preparing your backup disk for a backup of Mac OS X

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OS X is installed on an HFS+ filesystem. The HFS+ filesystem defines many types of metadata that describe non-data attributes of your files. Creation date, access control lists, permissions and ownership, Finder flags, and extended attributes are among the various metadata types defined in the HFS+ standard. To adequately back up an installation of OS X, CCC will indicate that your backup volume should be locally-attached, HFS+ formatted volume.