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Then, too, you could mistakenly pull out a local hard drive early. These are robust cloud services but they are still in the cloud and keeping a connection is an issue when you're backing up enormous quantities of data. If you have accounts on these services, then you can now backup and synchronize your work to Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage as if they were hard drives directly connected to your Mac. Now it's improved how easy it is to mount and use disk images but most significantly it's expanded to include cloud services. Previously, ChronoSync has been designed for backing up to local or network-attached hard disks and it's included ways to deal with disk images. You can now use app to backup to more types of storage and it can also do the work faster in certain circumstances. The developer claims over 50 improvements or new features since 4.6 but the new ChronoSync 4.7.1 concentrates specifically on two areas. ChronoSync added it seamlessly to the backup in 38 minutes. Time Machine essentially choked on it, and re-backed up the entire mess, taking over six hours to complete. To stress both systems, we added 100GB of data on an external drive to the backup. ChronoSync updated the backup in 41 minutes, again less than half the time. Time Machine took another two hours to change 88GB worth of files.

We worked with the same machine for a month, and we updated the backup. ChronoSync performed the same task in a quarter of the time, in one hour and 23 minutes.

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We did a full bootable backup of a 250GB drive with 212GB of data on it with both applications, and had a wildly different experience.īacking up to a 1TB USB 3.0 drive, the backup with Time Machine took nearly five hours. Solid, but slow, - almost excruciatingly so. TimeMachine is Apple's backup solution, and it's pretty solid.

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