![]() ![]() Technically SD is considered the gold standard, CCC, Synk 6, and Chronosync are a notch below (though that might only refer to some missing advanced features like the ability to copy a Time Maschine backup or some smaller issues in previous versions that have since been resolved). CCC is a bit more flexible, Chronosynk and Synk are even more flexible (though currently Synk 7 is a train wreck and should be avoided unless you like being a beta tester of backup software, the previous Synk 6 was pretty solid but is no longer sold). So, for the simple problem of yours, SD might be the best tool. Yes, both SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner are designed to make fully bootable clones. Chronosync gets recommended here semi-regularly but I have no personal experience with it but I think it allows other than complete disk to complete disk backups, ie, it is more flexible than SD. Trying to backup drive only part of a drive is more complex with it and backing up to a folder even more so (if not downright impossible.īut even for managing multiple backup scripts I find SDs interface less than optimal. SuperDuper has the easiest UI - for backing up a complete drive to another complete drive (which is what you want here). Which program would be better? SuperDuper or ChronoSync? I know this thread is very old, but I'm needing to backup one external hard drive to another external hard drive and I want them both synched. But I still choose to have a bootable backup for the ability to be up and running in just a couple minutes. You'll want a way to make a bootable back-up. Super Duper seems a bit out of date main reason being we dont want to spend the time its going to take to exclude files or folders from backups - (pgs 20-25 of the manual. I use Time Machine and BackBlaze for back-ups as well. Carbon Copy Cloner is very similar to Silverkeeper. I use SuperDuper for cloning my boot drive and my data drive. It proved to me that Timemachine alone is darn good. I can't speak for SuperDuper, but I can give an unqualified thumbs up for CCC. I put a new drive in, booted from OS X CD, then told it to restore from TimeMachine and I was back. I had to restore from TimeMachine and it actually worked quite well. Were going to be honest and direct about the limits of a bootable device in terms of recovering from hardware failure, but then well place the bootable copy solution right at the tip of your fingers. I also had a Mac at work without a bootable external backup drive (but with a TimeMachine drive) and of course the boot drive failed. But, were not dropping the ability to copy the System were going to continue to offer it with a 'best effort' approach. Heck, I bought an internal 1.5 SATA drive the other day for less than $150 (which is incredible if you remember what disks costs 15 years ago), just to put in an extra drive bay in my Mac Pro for TimeMachine. You can't go wrong with running both TimeMachine and one of they sync/backup tools. Investigate the other tools most notably the Synk software where I We are tracking product recommendations and. It has been mentiond 94 times since March 2021. I endedup paying for Super Duper as an addition to Based on our record, Carbon Copy Cloner seems to be more popular. ![]()
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