heruf.blogg.se - Chronosync vs carbon copy cloner

It’s a silent and probably the easiest feature of macOS that carries your data from one computer to another. That gets him the image files but it's not a backup of the Photos Library.Time Machine is a backup utility program that comes pre-installed with every macOS device.

CCC cannot incrementally back up multiple changed items in a package unless you happen to know what they are and drag them all into the CCC source box.īy doing what the person at Bombich said he does with the Masters folder in his Photos library he is copying out the Masters folder and the images contained therein (with their 32-character GUID names) to a folder on his/her backup drive.

If you only want to backup a selected file or folder inside a package you have to use the Finder to Show Package Contents, locate the single file or folder you want to back up, then drag it from the Finder to the Source box in the CCC UI.

If you set up a task to backup a package, CCC copies the entire package.

View the desired item in the Finder and drag it to the source box of CCC." For example I backup the masters folder from my Photos library that way. "You can drag and drop a folder to the source box. Here's what the folks at Bombich Sofware told me. More information on package files and how ChronoSync handles them, check out our tech note ‘The Package Conundrum’. To do this, choose the “Allow package selection” option in the file selection sheet. This is useful for cases where packages are used to store massive amounts of data, such as Photos libraries and such.

In addition to synchronizing package files, you also have the option of selecting a package as one of your targets. ’Standard’ treats packaged files as a whole, ' Merge' attempts to merge changes of the packaged files, and 'Dissect' treats packaged files as regular folders and examines their content. If you wish to change how ChronoSync handles package files, make a selection in the “Package Handling” menu under “Special File/Folder Handling” in the Options panel. Thus, when ChronoSync detects a package file has changed, it really means that some file within the package has changed and that when ChronoSync copies a package file, it is actually copying a folder and all its contents. of the user guide says - Package Files By default, ChronoSync presents and treats packages as single files, not folders. The ChronoSync manual says just enough about incrementally backing up selective package contents to make me not want to touch it.