Outgoing network connections made by CCC

Product: 
ccc4

If you're using an application firewall such as Little Snitch, you will see several outgoing network connections coming from CCC. We explain below what connections you should expect to see, and also explain why some connections that look unexpected are simply misreported by Little Snitch.

Ordinary activity

CCC will make external network connections for the following activity:

Creating a separate task to prevent VM container versions from bloating the SafetyNet

Product: 
ccc4

If you frequently use virtual machine container files (e.g. with Parallels, VMWare, VirtualBox, etc.), you may find that CCC's SafetyNet folder tends to get very large, very quickly. Every time you open your virtual machine, the monolithic virtual machine container file is modified, and CCC will require that it gets backed up during the next backup task. If the SafetyNet is on, CCC will move the older version of the VM container file into the SafetyNet folder.

Modifying CCC's Security Configuration

Product: 
ccc4

Rather than requiring you to enter admin credentials every time you want to run a task or make changes to a task, CCC 4 now only requires you to authenticate once when CCC is initially installed. While this new configuration is easier to use and has been requested by countless users, there are situations where this configuration is not appropriate. If you leave your system unattended with an admin user logged in, someone with physical access to your system can modify or run your CCC backup tasks.

バックアップタスクからファイルとフォルダを除外するには

Product: 
ccc4

CCCはソースとして指定されたフォルダやボリュームからすべてをコピーするようデフォルト設定されています。ソースからすべての項目をコピーしたくない場合、ソースセレクタの下のクローンポップアップメニューから“選択したファイル…”を選び、バックアップタスクから除外したい項目を指定することができます。

 

高度な設定

Product: 
ccc4

CCCの高度な設定は特定の状況下でとても役立ちます。しかし、日常的な使用に必ずしも必要なものではありません。この設定の中には、リスクを伴うものも含まれていますので、ご使用には充分注意してください。特定の使用条件において以下の説明が不十分な場合は、CCC ヘルプメニューの “CCC について質問する…(英語) ”からお問い合わせください。

高度な設定にアクセスするには、CCCのアプリケーションウインドウの下にある“高度な設定を使用”をクリックしてください。すべての高度な設定をデフォルト値に戻し、単純な設定の使用に戻るには、CCCのアプリケーションウインドウの下にある“単純な設定を使用”をクリックしてください。

"My disk is already formatted HFS+, why am I getting this warning?"

Product: 
ccc4

If your disk is not partitioned using the scheme recommended and supported by Apple, CCC will indicate a warning when you start the backup task such as:

You may have difficulty booting from this destination volume, the underlying disk is not partitioned with a partitioning scheme that Apple recommends for Intel Macs.

Working with FileVault Encryption

Product: 
ccc4

CCC is fully qualified for use with FileVault-protected volumes. CCC offers some advice around enabling encryption in the Disk Center.

Enabling encryption on a volume that contains (or will contain) an installation of macOS

If your goal is to create a bootable, encrypted backup, use the following procedure:

Restoring non-system files

I have a full-volume backup in a folder or a disk image, but I don't have a bootable backup. How can I restore everything?

Product: 
ccc4

CCC makes bootable backups specifically to avoid this kind of situation. When you have a bootable backup, you simply boot from that, then restore everything to a replacement disk or the original disk. One step, minimal time, couldn't be easier. Occasionally people get into this sticky situation though -- I have a backup of everything in a disk image or in a folder on the backup volume, there's a clean installation of macOS on my replacement disk, now how do I get everything back to the way that it was before?

Performing actions Before and After the backup task

Product: 
ccc4

Often when you have a backup task that runs on a scheduled basis, there are associated tasks that you would like to perform before or after files are actually copied. CCC offers the option to run shell scripts before and after a backup task, unmount or set the destination as the startup disk, run another CCC backup task, and power management options such as restart and shutdown. If you would like to perform any of these pre or post clone tasks, click on the "Use Advanced Settings" button at the bottom of CCC's window.