[PLUG] CCC

[Ben Koenig]

I'm really not trying to be mean here, just pointing out that this is
one of those moments where throwing out a random commandline tool is
not helpful.

Hopefully this comes across as constructive critisism. Backup tools
like CCC are essentially dd on STEROIDS. They provide a huge amount of
functionality that dd will never implement. rsync comes a bit closer,
but still lacking in a huge amount of features when compared to a
complete backup software package. The difference is so huge that you
can't even make a direct comparison, it's like comparing apples to
wild geese....

TBH I should know which backups tools work and which don't, given that
my company sells backup hardware (and some people are genius enough to
call me with their software bugs).... so I'll probably look around
since backup tools on linux have been a bit of a topic recently.

Normally people just write a shell script that wraps 'rsync' and/or
'tar' and call it done. There is one actual application that I hear
about a lot but I can't remember the name of it.... pretty sure it has
a linux version too, if I remember what it is I'll let you know.


On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 2:06 PM Russell Senior
<russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>
> That sounds a lot like 'dd'.
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 11:49 AM Michael Christopher Robinson <
> michael at robinson-west.com> wrote:
>
> > Stands for Carbon Copy Cloner.  Is there an open source free
> > alternative for Mac OS X Mojave that is just as good?
> >
> > I'm wanting to back up to my FreeNAS 11.2 NAS, but CCC doesn't support
> > bootable backups to remote hard drives.   Uge!  I'm currently using the
> > trial version and evaluating it.  If I can't make a bootable backup, I
> > can at least see what the next best thing is...
> >
> > I tried BRU, didn't work.  I have BackupPC on FreeNAS as an option,
> > don't know how to set it up though.  One backup program for Mac, Linux,
> > and Windows would be preferable.
> >
> >      -- Michael Robinson
> >
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