I recently have been modifying something important these days. I’m talking about data backup. My wife was getting a new laptop and trading in her old one. She asked me to backup and then wipe her MacBook. Usually we have hard drives to run Apple’s backup utility. It works for the most part. We also have a network drive which up until recently we used Time Machine there as well. Only drawback is the Mac’s disconnect from the NAS drive and backups are either not done or completed. I did more research and found a lot of people don’t like Time Machine for network drives.

Today I tried Carbon Copy Cloner. It’s been around forever and a lot of the Mac Podcast hosts recommend. I tried on both a local external and a NAS. The hard drive was easy and setting CCC up with it was a snap. The MAS part was slow, and something I hope is less with subsequent runs.