MED: Carbon Copy Cloner 5.1.15 (5925)

Carbon Copy Cloner 5.1.15 (5925)

Carbon Copy Cloner backups are better than ordinary backups. Suppose the unthinkable happens while you're under deadline to finish a project: your Mac is unresponsive and all you hear is an ominous, repetitive clicking noise coming from its hard drive. With ordinary backups, you'd spend your day rushing out to a store to buy a new hard drive and then sit in front of your computer reinstalling the operating system and restoring data.

With Carbon Copy Cloner, your data and the operating system's data are all preserved on a bootable volume, ready for production at a moment's notice. When disaster strikes, simply boot from your backup and get back to using your Mac. At your convenience, replace the failed hard drive and then let CCC restore the OS, your data and your settings directly from the backup in one easy step.

Any backup application can save your stuff. A CCC bootable backup will save your productivity too!

Feature:

Compatible with OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Redesigned, one-window interface
Edit scheduled tasks
Menubar application
Task history
Simple view mode
Chain tasks together
Run tasks only on weekdays or weekends
Task collision detection (prevent two tasks from writing to the same destination simultaneously)
Choose to run backups only when connected to a power source
Administrators authenticate only once, ever
Customizable email notifications
Command line application
Visual quickstart guides
Bootable backups
Smart updates
Run backups on a schedule
Back up to locally attached volumes
Back up to network volumes
Clone a Recovery HD
Household license
Disk Center
Archive changed and deleted items
Tasks run automatically, even if you are not logged in
Back up to another Mac
Pre- and post-flight scripts
Custom filters
Cloning coach with timely troubleshooting advice
Available in English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Spanish

What's New:

Version 5.1.15:

Added a timeout mechanism to volume unmount requests. The DiskArbitration service should never fail to reply to an unmount request, but we've been seeing those incidents more frequently lately.
Made some additional tweaks to HFS+ to APFS conversion that should make it more robust.
Addressed an issue in which an "On reconnect" task would not run when the source or destination was reconnected if the source or destination is a folder on a Data volume in an APFS volume group.
CCC will now disable Spotlight by default on the destination when making a bootable backup of a macOS Catalina System volume.
The "task finished with errors" email subject now leads with a "warning" emoji so it's more easily distinguishable from non-erring tasks.
Fixed a logic issue that caused a selected Task Group to not be marked as selected in the View menu. Fixed a similar issue that caused the "Run Now" menu option in the File menu to be disabled for task groups.
Fixed some dead ends in the CCC command-line utility that can be encountered when CCC's helper tool has not yet been installed, or when tasks have not yet been saved.
Fixed a localization issue related to the thousands grouping separator used in numbers presented in various windows, including the Task History window.
Errors that are produced by Disk Utility on a remote Mac regarding the failure to load unsigned plugins will no longer cause CCC to fail to produce a volume list when configuring a backup task to or from a remote Mac.
Addressed an issue in which some pre and postflight scripts failed to run, supposedly due to the lack of a shell interpreter line.
Added more specific handling of a scenario in which Disk Utility fails to create an APFS volume group when a T2 Mac is booted from an encrypted volume.
Fixed a couple user interface sizing and placement anomalies.
Improved the accuracy of the "Total data size" value reported in the Task Filter window when an APFS volume group is selected as the source.
Fixed an issue in which the "Total data size" value that was being reported in the Task History window was incorrect (too low) in cases where the data set had very, very few modified items.
CCC will no longer add the " About this folder.rtf" file to the SafetyNet folder if "OneDrive" appears anywhere in the folder path. This should avoid complaints from OneDrive that arise due to its 1980s-esque failure to deal with files whose names start with a space character.