Carbon Copy Cloner backups are better than ordinary backups. Suppose the unthinkable happens while you’re under deadline to finish a project: your Mac is unresponsive and all you hear is an ominous, repetitive clicking noise coming from its hard drive. With ordinary backups, you’d spend your day rushing out to a store to buy a new hard drive and then sit in front of your computer reinstalling the operating system and restoring data.
With Carbon Copy Cloner, your data and the operating system’s data are all preserved on a bootable volume, ready for production at a moment’s notice. When disaster strikes, simply boot from your backup and get back to using your Mac. At your convenience, replace the failed hard drive and then let CCC restore the OS, your data and your settings directly from the backup in one easy step.
Any backup application can save your stuff. A CCC bootable backup will save your productivity too!
Note: For full working version – Gatekeeper and SIP must be off!
What’s New
Version 6.1.1:
- Fixed an exception that was causing tasks to fail with no clear reason when a task was configured with a remote Mac source or destination, and the specification for that remote Mac was missing a "volume name" attribute.
- macOS 12.3 introduced a problem that causes Legacy Bootable Copies of the system to fail on Apple Silicon Macs. In earlier beta builds of 12.3, that failure rendered the destination unmountable. In the final release of 12.3, that failure is now innocuous. CCC now ignores the error and completes the task. Please note that we still recommend using this procedure only when making a copy of the system that you intend to use immediately (e.g. when migrating to a new disk, or setting up a sandbox test system). A CCC "Standard Backup" provides a more comprehensive strategy for regularly-updated backups.
- Fixed a cosmetic accounting issue that was making it look like more files were re-verified than were copied. Also fixed an errant subtask timeout that was occurring during postflight verification.
Compatibility
macOS 10.15.0 or later, 64-bit processor
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Carbon Copy Cloner 6.0-b3 not K’d
Carbon Copy Cloner 6.0 not K’d
Whats the point of continuing to post these when they are not k’d?
@tbeam, the brand new Carbon Copy Cloner 6 is also posted elsewhere without the “K medicine” which means it can only be used as a trial for a month, of course. My guess is that no one has K’d it as of this writing. Personally, I am glad it was posted without the K anyway, giving me an opportunity to test it. And impressively, the new Version 6 is really faster than earlier versions when it comes to update the backups with anything that changed from the first backup. Let’s be optimistic that a K will become available before the Trial period expires.
@OQTW If you want to test with the trial version, you can get it on the official website. No need to come here and waste time and risks with some zip file on a direct download.
@pbear I know that people can get a trial version at CCC’s site. What I was saying is that I found benefit that it was posted here because I check this site daily for new releases of Mac software, while I don’t check CCC directly every day. Thus, it being here let me know a trial was available. Yes, I want a K’d version of CCC, and wish it was here now. I am just sayin’ that even with this here not being K’d, it still has some benefit for some.
@OQTW I’ll give it a try too. It looks promising
Just letting everyone know that the Version 6.0.1 of Carbon Copy Cloner, posted here today May 30, 2021, is still not K’d.
6.0.1 not k’d & also packaged like it is k’d from a release group, WTF?
There’s another place that has this exact download. They are saying that in order for one to have the computer recognize that it’s registered and not a Trial, the Apple computer must have both System Integrity Protection (SIP) turned off and Gatekeeper turned off.
I do not know if this is successful because I am not willing to disable SIP on my Mac. (I do have Gatekeeper turned off, and do not mind that being off.)
For anyone who doesn’t mind disabling SIP so they can see if CCC will then install as a registered program:
To disable SIP, do the following:
Restart your computer in Recovery mode.
Launch Terminal from the Utilities menu.
Run the command csrutil disable.
Restart your computer.
Oh, and to reenable SIP, if desired:
Simply boot back into Recovery Mode, open Terminal from the Utilities Window, and run the comman csrutil enable … then reboot.
“System Integrity Protection (SIP) in macOS protects the entire system by preventing the execution of unauthorized code.”
I decided to test it, and it works. I disabled SIP. After the reboot, I opened CCC and no more Trial Version.
Now, the question is: How much danger is it in the long run to leave System Integrity Protection turned off.
it’s only for mac M1 ?
regiso, I have successfully installed it on my Intel Mac. (I did have to disable SIP, as described above. And again, Gatekeeper must also be off. Then it will install on Intel-based Macs as full version just fine.)
@OQTW
How much danger is it in the long run to leave System Integrity Protection turned off
You don’t plan to continue using a cracked version, do you ?
I do only for testing. After I’ve tested it, I delete or if I like the app, I buy it. Dont u ? It’s only $39,9 btw.
6.1 Doesn’t work, app corruption message and asking if you want to move thing to trash ….