Re: System Drive Clone

Yes on Time Machine with one exception. Time Machine kicks off all the time and may in fact back up a bad installation. You might be able to remember or not what specific time/date was golden vs what was not and then again you may not. Also, I don't know about you but I get the proverbial "Time Machine Failed" message more than I care to think about. And with the wonderful diagnostic messages it supplies (none) usually there isn't bubkus you can do about it. I tend to let it go until I can't take it any more and then I wipe my Time Machine drive and start again, which usually fixes it for a while. With CCC I make an exact copy to a bootable drive. If a Mac OS update hoses my system I can have it back running by simply swapping my CCC drive with my boot drive and I am back running in the time it takes to crack the case and swap drive. Time Machine can't do that.