What we're testing in this beta cycle

Quick Update is smarter and more resilient. Quick Update now recovers much better when a previous backup ran into errors. Before, a few problem files (for example, some flaky files during a long first backup to a NAS) could make the next backup scan everything, which sometimes took hours. Now CCC re-checks just the areas that had trouble, and the rest of the backup stays fast. What to look for: after a backup that reports errors, the next backup should finish much faster than a full scan and still pick up the files that failed before. Please let us know if a follow-up backup seems slower than it should be, or if any previously failed items are still missing afterwards.

Quick Update now corrects out-of-scope changes on local backups. If something is modified on the backup volume outside of CCC, Quick Update now catches and corrects it on the next run. This functionality is limited to destination volumes that support FSEvents, so NAS volumes are not included. For those destinations, we still assert an assumption that the destination is not modified outside of the scope of the backup task. You can always run a full audit of any destination by holding down the Option key and clicking the Start button. What to look for: make a change on a local backup volume, run the task, and check that the backup is back to matching the source.

Changes in CCC 7.2.2

• Fixed

  b4: Fixed an issue in which CCC wasn't suspending the Quick Update feature when changing the destination for a backup task. If you recently changed the destination for a backup task that has Quick Update enabled, hold down the Option key and click the Start button to have CCC audit the destination.

• Improved

  Fixed the alignment of the Size and Copied columns in the task audit view. These numeric values are now right-aligned instead of left-aligned, matching the task event table, and the presentation of numeric content in the Finder.

• Improved

  CCC will no longer attain a user idle display lock assertion when a task is started manually. CCC still attains that assertion when a task is repeated via the "Repeat affected tasks on login" setting.

• Improved

  Fixed a logic issue that was causing the "Remove excluded items" setting to be errantly disabled when loading the Task Filter window with a filter that is set to the "Include" default filter behavior.

• Improved

  You can now select multiple tasks in the sidebar, then right-click on the selection to delete them all at once.

• Improved

  Improved the performance of sparsefile copying.

• Improved

  The Notifications settings that are managed by the CCC Dashboard application are now available in the Settings window of the main application.

• Improved

  Items excluded via "Respect macOS exclusions" are now removed from the destination when the "Remove excluded files" setting is enabled. There is one very important exception to this behavior: bundle components are not removed. Removing bundle components could break some files, e.g. Photos Libraries, so we don't remove items inside of a bundle file.

• Improved

  When exporting a task audit or an ad hoc verification report in CSV format, CCC now correctly handles file names that include quotation marks.

• Improved

  CCC's "correction" of modification dates with a "0" value (i.e. January 1, 1970, Midnight UTC) is now limited to destination volumes that specifically cannot accommodate a 0 value for modification dates (e.g. ExFAT, some NAS volumes).