More on backup & CCC

[Brian Olesky]

I just downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner. According to the documentation, it
does both a full clone and regular synchronizations. So can we believe it's
the only backup tool we need when working with an external hard drive?

The only reason that confuses me is that in the May issue of MacWorld, in
one article they say Carbon Copy Cloner is a great utility for backing up an
entire drive, but then just a few pages later they have a separate sidebar
article reviewing and recommending 5 backup programs such as Deja Vu,
ExecutiveSync and ChronoSync, without even mentioning CCC. And in last
month's issue (August), in the back cover article, they reference all the
ones from that May sidebar issue, and say there's a new one that's as good
or better called iMsafe from SweetCocoa...again with absolutely no reference
to Carbon Copy Cloner. My conclusion is Macworld doesn't seem to consider
CCC a backup utility, yet they give it 4 mice for doing "something" really
well.

Can someone help make sense of this? Is CCC really all we need to do
periodic synchronized backups to an external drive, or do these other
programs do something different? It's especially confusing since CCC is free
and the rest cost from $15 or $20 all the way up to $50 for Retrospect
Express. And does RE, for the extra money, do even more than these other
ones?

Sign me confused (as usual).


On 8/19/03 11:42 AM, "James Patrick Draine" <draine at comcast.net> wrote:

> YMMV, but CCC has been excellent in my experience. Buying Retrospect
> was just a waste of money for me.