At 9:17 PM -0400 10/22/2008, Al Poulin wrote: >On Oct 22, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Dan wrote: > > At 1:10 PM -0500 10/21/2008, George Hozendorf wrote: >>> anyone tried the latest version of Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1.2? On my >>> machine it's incredibly faster. >> >> hum. Hadn't even realized it was out! I'll give it a whirl. Thx! >> >> Might be interesting to compare it to the latest SuperDuper. > >Please let us know how they compare.
Results so far: 0. I love CCC's new interface. Very clean and easy to use! 1. By default, the new CCC, when creating a new clone "copy everything", wants to do a block-level copy. This is faster than a file-level copy but I don't like it: 1) The geometry of the source is never absolutely identical to the target, so there's some fudging to be done. 2) Creating such an "exact" clone *retains* all fragmentation AND file system errors! ew. I like file-level backups because they create a new *known* clean file system with unfragmented file data. 2. CCC's file-level "incremental" copy, the equivalent of SuperDuper's "smart update" .... WOW. It's MUCH faster than SuperDuper! Nice! 3. CCC's "archive modified and deleted items" checkbox, for incremental copies ... way cool! I wish SD did this! Basically... it tells CCC to update the clone like you'd expect, but instead of deleting stale files, it moves them into a time-stamped folder at the top level of the backup volume. You can then keep that folder around (like a Time Machine type backup) or dump it manually. 4. It's very easy to tell CCC to just copy certain things. eg: Just do /Users/dan right now, without wasting time perusing all the system or other user's stuff. 5. Need to look into CCC's handling of the various Cache directories. (workin on that). 6. Need to check out the scheduled backups. BUG: When doing a file-level copy, either as a full or incremental, CCC sometimes incorrectly copies the visibility attribute of some directories. The directory and its contents *are* copied. It's just erroneously made invisible on the backup! I've got a thread about this going in CCC's forums. Hopefully they'll nail this down and get it fixed fast. Not a show stoppper; just an annoyance. FWIW, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
