#ALTERNATIVES TO SERIAL CLONER MAC FULL#

At home I use Time Machine to back up to Time Capsule and at work, I use TM to back up to Synology and QNAP NAS devices. Your WiFi could be a source of the problem, too, if you're connecting wirelessly. If it's a Time Capsule, there could be a problem with that. So it comes down to what NAS is being backed up to (assuming you're backing up over network via TM). So TM and CCC serve different purposes for me (with some overlap) and I use both. TM is always there always on and that has great benefit. I also use CCC (DAS) for maintaining a a bootable clone in case of total catastrophic failure (and can also recover particular folders and files from there, too). It's no slower than Carbon Copy Cloner for DAS volumes. TM works quite differently for NAS volumes (e.g., Time Capsule) vs. Sometimes TM does automatic validations of a network backup volume, though, which takes a long time. The restores took a long time but worked perfectly.

#ALTERNATIVES TO SERIAL CLONER MAC FULL#

I've also on 3 different occasions needed to do full restores (HD failure on one machine, 2 SSD failures on another). It's been quite reliable, too, except for the first couple of years after the feature was first introduced.

I've been using Time Machine for years, backing up 3 Macs with no less than 512GB storage used (each). Could go 3 or more if you are looking at many TB of data. You don't have to go 2 bay.but it is great to have the ability to have drive redundancy. Pretty aniemic.slow, and won't run the more modern and robust BTRFS file system. I would not recommend their low end J series. File serving, or syncing.one may expect better performance. For backups, slow and steady is fine most of the time, as it chugs away in the background. Same for all brands low-end choices will be the slowest. There is a reason high-end file servers have lots of RAM and large CPUs. throughput can be limited by many things, including RAM and CPU. One thing to consider: The cheapest boxes, are, well, cheap. Makes it easy and secure to get data or backup anywhere you have a network connection, without having to know an IP, fuss with firewall rules, or even touch a router. I really think their Quick Connect is under-rated. Backing up and sharing is enough to justify the cost. The best part is all you can do with it.but don't feel compelled. Not perfect.but nothing in the consumer price range is. Oh I just saw a THIRD cloning product on Macupdate, also based in China 'DMClone', look at the icon, look at the website, also JUST released a Catalina compatible release.I have used both Drobo and Synology, and strongly recommend the Synology. In any case, for a few dollars more, use CarbonCop圜loner. For the record, this is not about it being based in China, other companies based in other countries have done this kind of thing before, so please don't construe this as 'anti' rant against in group of people or governments, etc. Both products JUST came out with a new release with Catalina compatibility, within days of each other. Is it misleading and questionable tactics? You decide. The icons are essentially the same design, the product verbage on the websites in some places is almost word for word identical. If you do a lookup on (site for AWEClone) and (site for DoYourClone), both are registered by Shanghai Meicheng Technology Information Development Co., Ltd., and both servers are on, using the same DNS 104.27 prefix.

This product and the product 'DoYourClone' are the SAME product, in my opinion, just rebranded, from the same parent company in China.

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