Knowledge Base > Carbon Copy Cloner 4
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Sample Usage Scenarios
- I want to clone my entire hard drive to a new hard drive or a new machine
- I want to back up my whole Mac to a Time Capsule, NAS, or other network volume
- I want to back up multiple Macs or source volumes to the same hard drive
- Can I run a backup while I'm using my computer? If I have open files, will they be backed up?
- Can I back up one computer and use the clone to restore another computer?
- I have a clone created by another application. Will CCC recognize that data, or will it want to recopy everything?
- Can CCC back up my BootCamp (Windows) partition?
- Can I use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone a Time Machine backup?
- Cloning one external hard drive to another external hard drive
- Restoring an item from a hidden folder
- Folder-to-Folder Backups