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For the most reliable primary backup, and also for more functionality from your backup, we recommend that you procure a USB or Thunderbolt hard drive and create a backup on that locally-attached disk. But we also recommend using NAS backups only as a secondary option for a subset of your most important data. We specifically present this direct-to-NAS functionality in contrast to the inflexibility that Time Machine offers. You can select a NAS volume, or a folder on a NAS volume as the destination to a CCC backup task. You see that with Time Machine too - there are countless reports of 'The (Time Machine) backup is corrupt, it needs to be recreated' on the Internet, and most of those would trace back to corruption of the disk image. NAS-hosted disk images are very sensitive to network connectivity loss, and that fragility eventually leads to corruption of the disk image. You could certainly configure CCC to back up to a disk image on a NAS volume too - choose 'New Disk Image.' in CCC's Destination selector to set that up.īut we don't recommend that, in fact we explicitly discourage it. When making a backup to a network volume, Time Machine backs up to a disk image.

Select a file, then use the navigation controls to navigate backwards and forwards through your backup historyįor additional details about restoring from a backup, including tutorial videos, see this section of CCC's documentation: Restoring an older version of a backup Backing up to a network volume.

Click Task Filter at the bottom of the window.

SD sorts by last date modified while CCC and DU sort by name/directory.

Click on the Source selector and choose your backup disk as the source Superduper has a distinctive drawback versus both CCC and Disk Utility.

You can use CCC's Snapshot Navigator to browse older versions of your files:

CCC also has a menu bar icon with status information for all your backup tasks and notification preferences. Time Machine offers a menu bar icon that tells you the current status of Time Machine, and gives you an option to manually run the backup or 'Enter Time Machine' (view older snapshots of files).

Preparing your destination disk for a backup or restore.

If you simply want to encrypt your current backup, right-click on it in the Finder and choose the option to Encrypt it. If you're setting up a new backup volume, erase it as 'APFS Encrypted' in Disk Utility.

Apply granular control over when your backup tasks run.

Apply granular control over what should and should not be included in your backups.

Compare the source and destination to see what the current differences are.

See detailed backup history, granular error reporting, and a list of changes made in each task event.

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Make incremental updates to your backup even faster with Quick Update.Integrity checking of files on the source and destination - proactively detect and deter 'bit rot'.But why stop there, there is a bunch of other functionality in CCC that will greatly enhance your backup strategy.

That's it! You have now matched Time Machine feature-for-feature.

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