Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it. Try it 'til you trust it.

The key to a successful backup plan is to actually do the backups regularly. When left to a human, the task often gets tacked on to the end of a very long list of other things to do. When you eventually have a catastrophe, the data is simply gone. You know that feeling — you just lost six years of family photos. Your kids being born, their first birthdays, their first everything. The answer to this is consistent and regular backups, placed on a schedule and handled automatically by your computer.

Carbon Copy Cloner offers fast, incremental backups that copy only items that differ from the last backup, as well as checksum analysis of your backed up files, archiving and archive management, and backup task scheduling. With CCC, you can back up to a locally-attached hard drive, to a network volume, or to another Macintosh across your network or across the Internet.

Clone

A Better Bootable Backup — your data, the operating system's data, all preserved impeccably on a bootable volume, ready for production at a moment's notice
Simplest method to migrate to a new, larger hard drive, especially if you have lost your original Mac OS X Installation DVD
Support for block-level disk-to-disk clones for super-fast upgrades

Incremental backup

Smarter & faster — Subsequent backups copy only the items that have changed since the last backup
Archive past versions of your files and items that have been deleted
Back up to hard drives, network shares or to disk images

Scheduled Tasks

Schedule backup tasks on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis
Configure a backup task to run when the backup device is (re)attached to your Mac
Convenient "Defer or Skip" features allow you to dynamically reschedule or skip a backup that occurs at an inopportune time
Email notifications keep you on top of your backups

Backup

Back up to another Macintosh on your home network or across the Internet
Back up to a disk image with optional encryption
Back up to and from network shares

General Features

Simple interface for indicating exactly what to back up
Restore using the same process used for backup
Backups are non-proprietary, so you can browse them or use them with Migration Assistant
"Cloning Coach" offers proactive configuration advice and expert troubleshooting guidance when hardware or filesystem errors occur