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Carbon Copy Cloner vs rdiff-backup

A side-by-side look at Carbon Copy Cloner and rdiff-backup. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Carbon Copy Cloner

Carbon Copy Cloner

Backup & Sync

Carbon Copy Cloner is a backup and cloning utility for macOS that allows users to make bootable backups of their hard drive. It supports scheduled and incremental backups to external drives or network volumes.

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rdiff-backup

rdiff-backup

Backup & Sync

rdiff-backup is an open source utility that backs up one directory to another, storing incremental differences instead of full file copies to save space. It supports remoting backups over a network.

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