I like Time Machine because it's built-in and always quietly working. as they also should techincally be cloned elsewhere too.īacking up is a pain really, and if you've ever suffered losses before that's cost you time/money then it's easy to become over OCD about it. Things get trickier when you're archiving out to local disks.
But make sure you have at least a local and external backup to be on the safe side, and at least one you want to be incremental for file rollbacks. So yeah, CCC for a true boot disk clone 100% over time machine. But that's mainly because my internet connection would take days to restore everything from scratch. If i had entire system failure i'd restore my newest CCC (If i'm busy/lazy i can be 3 months away from my last clone) - which is basically my entire OS and it's apps/settings - and then i would restore data i needed from cloud. CCC for me is more of a failsafe, and i feel comfortable knowing i have the entire contents stored locally. Time machine is set and forget, very easy to setup and integrates well with MacOS - it's never failed for me personally - but it won't create a boot drive as such, it gives you the option of restoring a boot drive to your SSD/HDD via the MacOS recovery options though.ĬCC i've only used for complete system snapshots which i do 5-6 times a year manually now, and that does create a bootable drive - you can clone to a second drive.Īs long as you have a local backup which you can use for quick rollbacks and an offsite/cloud backup you're golden or most situations.