You do back-up your entire hard drive on a regular basis don’t you? If there’s one thing you can be sure of with hard drives is that someday, somehow, some of them will fail. Unless you have a back-up you could be in big trouble. The easiest thing to do is clone your internal boot drive to an external firewire drive and you could easily be back up and running in a matter of minutes. Finish the job and then go back and rebulid that internal boot drive. How do you do it? Carbon Copy Cloner.

Carbon Copy Cloner was MIA for a while but it has recently been update. From the Bombich Software website:

  • Support for block-level disk-to-disk clones.
  • Synchronization built-in, not bolted on.
  • Support for backing up across the network to another Macintosh.
  • Advanced scheduling capabilities — Backup tasks can now be scheduled on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis, or you can indicate that a backup task should run when the backup device is attached (e.g. an iPod).
  • CCC recognizes iPods specifically, allowing time for the iPod:iTunes synchronization to complete.
  • The ability to drill down into folders to select exactly what gets copied and what doesn’t (you can drill down indefinitely).
  • Built-in software update feature notifies you when updates are available.

Grab a copy and make a donation to keep the development of this great app going.