Introducing Carbon Copy Cloner 2.3!

Have you ever wanted a simple, complete, bootable backup of your hard drive? Have you ever wanted to upgrade to a larger hard drive with minimal hassle and without reinstalling your OS and all of your applications? Have you ever wanted to move your entire Mac OS X installation to a new computer? Then CCC is the tool for you! CCC makes these tasks simple by harnessing the Unix power built into Mac OS X. In addition to the features that CCC has provided in the past, version 2 offers synchronization of the source and target as well as scheduled backup tasks. Now you can setup a regular backup regimen that occurs in the background, even if you are not logged in! Version 2 also offers enhancements for lab administrators, including the option to run pre and post-flight shell scripts, the ability to modify the list of items to be removed at the end of a clone, and the ability to create a disk image on the fly.

Works on my MacBook Pro 17", just booted from the cloned firewire drive. Now I have a backup that boots in case my hard drive dies again. I can update the backup image weekly, or as often as I install libraries, and then pull our source code from SVN when I boot from the firewire drive and... a dead disk will cost me no time. Woot.

Bombich Software: Carbon Copy Cloner: Bootable Backups for your Apple Notebook