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CCC 6.1.7 is ready for Sonoma! In addition to Sonoma support, it includes a new option to temporarily download cloud-only files to make a local backup, which is handy if you want your Dropbox/OneDrive/etc. content backed up locally. Check it out! bombich.com/software/updat…

Friday, March 31st is "World Backup Day” A reminder to perform a review of your backup routines and verify your backups. You can verify your CCC backup in CCC. Check out this blog article for details bombich.com/blog #worldbackupday @WorldBackupDay

@RichardTaylorTV Hi Richard, No plans to go to NAB (I've never been). Regarding v7, I added your name to a beta testing list, I'll let you know when we're ready to start testing (no announcements yet though)

Two questions about Carbon Copy Cloner @bombichsoftware 1) Will CCC V7 be announced in 2023 and can I try the V7 beta? 2) Are you going to be at NAB 2023? Thanks!

@GertKracht FWIW, 6.1.5 will suppress the time remaining estimate if it appears to be woefully inaccurate (e.g. not dropping over the course of 10 seconds)

@GertKracht "Time remaining" is an estimate, and it's virtually impossible to make it perfectly accurate in every scenario. Why are you waiting? Perhaps there is a postflight activity that can solve that? bombich.com/kb/ccc6/perfor…

I've been heavily based on #SuperDuper for years on Intel macs. But today I gave a try on the new #CCC for M1's and OMG @bombichsoftware what have u done. Haven't try bootable BUs yet but scheduling folder BUs is super smooth and fast!

@cafe_racer I'm not sure (I don't use Time Machine). I believe there is a command-line option to the tmutil utility, though, that would allow you to adopt a new volume. I'd have to defer to Apple on that one.

@bombichsoftware will Time Machine recognize a CCC cloned copy on a new hard drive?

@felixthehat There are no date restrictions like that imposed by CCC. Choose "Report a problem" from CCC's Help menu to open a support request so we can take a closer look at this. We can probably improve the performance of the task too.

@stephenbarden No, right now the task filter only works based on file name or folder hierarchy

@bombichsoftware Hello! Registered CCC user here! Is there a way that a filter can be set to NOT back up files over a certain size? Many thanks in advance!

@parkerdigital @DaveHamilton @johnfbraun Just for grins, I'd select that backup volume in CCC's sidebar to see if there are snapshots on that volume. I know you said it's HFS+ formatted, but this is the sort of result I'd expect if the destination was APFS formatted and had snapshots on it.

@parkerdigital @DaveHamilton @johnfbraun If Disk Utility is showing the same disk usage and free space values for both volumes, then I'd try "killall Finder"in Terminal

@spinphoto Of course, we also see it when a disk is failing or trying to access unreadable sectors.

For anyone following along in the data recovery saga. I'm using carboncopy from @bombichsoftware on macOS setup with an "on appearance" trigger. When drive eventually appears, the copy process picks up where it left off.

@spinphoto What are the specs of the disk? We see that pattern on disks that use Shingled Magnetic Recording when they're rewriting large numbers of tracks. We also see it on SSDs when they're (slowly) doing their TRIM business.

The file system has stopped responding when the data read/write graph drops in macOS Activity Monitor

@bnSonic @felixkling @AlFora3 Personally I wouldn't use a floppy :-) We offer some recommendations for backup devices here: #recommendations" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bombich.com/kb/ccc6/choosi…

@bombichsoftware @felixkling @AlFora3 but that’s nothing I can solve ;) … and if can’t too (because it’s OS and not App) … well? i should buy an USB-Floppy and juggle Discs again… back to 1990 🎉

@bombichsoftware now the Backup-Plan ran for a few days every 3 hours. I look at a restore-plan and i’m missing the History-Browser to get older versions like described in new Features (Screen1) This Date-Slider is missing here (Screen2)

@bnSonic @felixkling @AlFora3 The "real bummer" is that disk images have grown so fragile. This sort of strategy (disk image on NAS) used to be more reliable and had more potential.

@bombichsoftware that’s a real bummer :’( @felixkling @AlFora3 that’s what i mean: There seems to be no real alternative to TimeMachine if your mass-storage is a NAS in your local network. I’m so frustrated

@bnSonic That's correct. If you want a full-featured, faster, and more reliable backup, we recommend that you make that to a locally-attached storage device. NAS devices are alright as secondary backups, but they're just never going to provide the feature set of a locally-attached backup

@bombichsoftware So: if i like to Backup to my NAS, it’s not possible to have Versions? Because a) using a sparse-bundle is not working (see my tweets from a few days) and copy directly is recommended (your answer) b) directly to a NAS is not APFS of course - so no version am i right?

@bnSonic The destination must be APFS formatted. If it is, click on the Destination selector and choose "Manage snapshots on {volume name}" to find the setting. bombich.com/kb/ccc6/levera…

@bombichsoftware So the Backup has to have Snapshots… Now, i like to have a Backup with Versions (i think that’s what you call Snappshots?) - How/Where can i activate them for the Backup?