If full disk encryption is not supported on a particular volume, CCC indicates exactly why not. Enabling encryption on an OS X backup volume, for example, involves several steps that must be executed in the correct order. CCC now offers volume-specific advice about how to enable full disk encryption. This update is fully qualified on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, and now OS X 10.9 Mavericks. ConclusionĬarbon Copy Cloner is a very good program to clone and backup your drive. I've found that you'll have to make sure a local disk is connected to your Mac so the program can start up though.

The application features a simple interface, from where you select the drive or folders to backup and the target drive to save to. Simple to useĬarbon Copy Cloner (CCC) is an app that creates clones of your disks, so you can worry less about losing your data.

More knowledgeable users will also like being able to run pre and post-flight shell scripts, checking the list of items removed after a clone, and creating a disk image.