The original carbon copy goes to the third level: 3.0

Mike Bombich has finally released Carbon Copy Cloner 3.0.  For years, Carbon Copy Cloner was the best way to clone MacOSX hard drives.

The new version has been a long time coming and includes many heavily-requested features.  I’ll admit I jumped ship to SuperDuper! years ago after tiring of waiting for this update.

Among the new features are:

• Support for block-level disk-to-disk clones.
• Synchronization built-in.
• Support for backing up across the network to another Macintosh.
• Advanced scheduling capabilities—Backup tasks can now be scheduled on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis, or you can indicate that a backup task should run when the backup device is attached (e.g. an iPod).
• CCC recognizes iPods specifically, allowing time for the iPod:iTunes synchronization to complete.
• The ability to drill down into folders to select exactly what gets copied and what doesn’t (you can drill down indefinitely).
• Built-in software update feature notifies you when updates are available.
• Universal Binary
• A pretty new interface

Best of all is the fact that it is “Uncrippled shareware” meaning that you can use it without limitation.  Just don’t forget to drop a tip in Mike’s jar at some point.