[Macworld.com]

With a major upgrade to Mac OS X just days away, everyone should be thinking about backups. Dan Frakes takes a look at a major upgrade to an old Gem, Carbon Copy Cloner. [more]

[macFanDave]

I was a long time user of CCC (and, yes, I paid for each Mac I backed up), but I started having trouble with it when Tiger came out, I think.
So, I then bought SuperDuper and I find it to be excellent. I think they have done such a good job that I didn't see anywhere that CCC could leap-frog it. Thank you for your review, because when you pointed out where CCC excels lets me decide whether those areas are important enough to me to switch back.
Now that we have two excellent choices for backup, are they going to be suddenly superfluous after I visit the Apple Store on Friday?

[RASTERMAN]

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Mac OS X 10.5, a.k.a., Leoapard.

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[Rhywun]

There are more than two choices. I've been a happy user of Dj Vu for about 1 1/2 years now. I find it more intuitive than the others.

[macFanDave]

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There are more than two choices. I've been a happy user of Dj Vu for about 1 1/2 years now. I find it more intuitive than the others.

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I have the strangest feeling that I've read that before! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Rhywun]

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I have the strangest feeling that I've read that before! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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You probably have.... I have a feeling I plugged it the last time this topic came up /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[typ993]

One weakness in CCC is the inability to use it from a non-administrator account. I always run in a regular user account for security reasons and find it annoying that I have to switch to an admin account just to run a backup. Mike Bombich doesn't know how to authenticate a program so it can run with full admin privileges from a regular user account (like a lot of other programs do)?

[Dan Frakes]

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One weakness in CCC is the inability to use it from a non-administrator account. I always run in a regular user account for security reasons and find it annoying that I have to switch to an admin account just to run a backup. Mike Bombich doesn't know how to authenticate a program so it can run with full admin privileges from a regular user account (like a lot of other programs do)?

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There's a big "padlock" icon at the bottom of the window; click on it, enter an admin user's name and password, and you can then run a backup, even if you're in a non-admin account. I used this feature successfully during testing.

[DriverDave]

Why write an article in the recent Macworld saying to use carbon copy cloner when diskutil will do the same thing?
Are we not up to date about the capabilities of OSX? Use the restore function to duplicate a drive. Why install extra software to duplicate functions?
As far as Time Machine goes... its an incomplete backup utility.