Powerful Backup Utility for Mac Reviews: Carbon Copy Cloner vs SuperDuper

Carbon Copy Cloner

Carbon Copy Cloner 3 features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive. In addition to general backup, Carbon Copy Cloner can also clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. Carbon Copy Cloner's block-level copy offers the absolute best fidelity in the industry!

Note: Carbon Copy Cloner is ready for Snow Leopard! A beta release has been made available that addresses a few minor issues with running earlier versions of CCC on the new OS.


• Complete, bootable backups
• Simple interface for indicating exactly what you want to back up
• Restore using the same process used for backup
• Backups are non-proprietary, so you can browse them or use them with Migration Assistant
• Fast, incremental backups copy only the items that have changed since the last backup
• Archival backup archives items that have been deleted from the source
• Support for block-level disk-to-disk clones
• Support for backing up across the network to another Macintosh
• Back up to hard drives or to disk images
• Schedule backup tasks on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis, or you can indicate that a backup task should run when the backup device is attached (e.g. an iPod). You don't even need to be logged in for your backups to occur!
• Carbon Copy Cloner recognizes iPods specifically, allowing time for the iPod:iTunes synchronization to complete
• Built-in software update feature notifies you when updates are available

SuperDuper

SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper's built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. It's the perfect complement to Time Machine under Leopard and Snow Leopard, allowing you to store a bootable backup alongside your Time Machine volume-and it runs beautifully on both Intel and Power PC Macs!


• Carbon copies. And a whole lot more.
  SuperDuper is the most advanced, yet easy to use disk copying program available for OS X. It can, of course, make a full backup, or "clone" - in moments, you can completely duplicate your boot drive to another drive, partition, or image file. In even less time, you can update an existing clone with the latest data: use Smart Update and, minutes later, your backup is completely up to date!
• Faster than a speeding bullet and more accurate!
  SuperDuper isn't just the most powerful cloner available: it's incredibly fast, too. Its Smart Update feature evaluates hundreds of thousands of files and directories in just minutes, automatically updating your clone to reflect any changes you've made on the original drive including custom icons, HFS+ attributes, ownership changes... the works! It can even copy (and Smart Update) Time Machine backup volumes!
• Expertise not required.
  SuperDuper comes preconfigured, ready to perform all the most common copying and cloning tasks. We've pored over the Apple documentation so you don't have to. Every step of the process carefully follows all Apple recommended policies and procedures.