Carbon Copy Cloner

Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) is drive backup and cloning utility written by Mike Bombich for macOS.

Functionality
Carbon Copy Cloner can make complete bootable clones or incremental backups of HFS Plus or APFS volumes.

History
Bombich first thought of the backup application concept while providing tech support at Bowling Green State University because there was not yet any cloning utility for Mac OS X. After prototyping it in AppleScript, Carbon Copy Cloner 1.0 was released through VersionTracker on January 18, 2002. With the release of Mac OS X Lion in 2010, Bombich was receiving 120 support inquiries a day for Carbon Copy Cloner. It then changed from shareware to a commercial trialware application published by Bombich Software.

Release history

 * CCC 1.0: January 18, 2002 — First release.
 * CCC 2.0: November 2002 — Added a scheduler and the ability to choose any volume source.
 * CCC 3.0: September 2007 — New redesigned interface and added Intel processor support.
 * CCC 3.4: July 2011 — Updated for Mac OS X Tiger, Lion, and Snow Leopard.
 * CCC 4.0: October 2014 — Rebuilt with a task-centric interface. Later added APFS support.
 * CCC 5.0: August 2017 — New interface for defining task filters.
 * CCC 6.0: May 2021 — Added Apple Silicon support and quicker backup updates through FSEvents.