Mac Backup and Cloning applications: CCC, Stellar Drive Clone, Clonezilla

Today there are numerous applications available for cloning Mac drive. Some famous cloning software include CCC, Stellar Drive Clone and Clonezilla. No one wants to loose his important stuff , so it is essential to take backup or clone your drive or volume. Have you ever lost any of your precious documents, images, videos, audios, reports and more due to accidental deletion, virus attack, formatting , hard drive crash etc.

Loss of sensitive and important data of a company would affect its productivity and reputation as well and no one can afford it. So, its better to not to take risk for your sensitive data, and make the habit of cloning/backing up your data regularly. Cloning protects your data in case of hard drive failure due to untimely power outages, and some other things that may cause your data loss.
Cloning can create exact copy of your drive or volume to another drive, folder or Mac. Three most popular Mac cloning tool and its features:-


Carbon Copy Cloner(CCC):-
Better bootable backup
Support to Block level cloning
Clones recovery HD(Lion+)
Incremental backups(Copy only the files that have changed since last backup)
Schedule tasks on hourly,daily and monthly basis
Can save backup to external drive also network drive also.
Price: $40


Stellar Drive Clone:
Easy to use interface
Cloning and Imaging software
Create bootable clone of Mac drive including recovery HD
Supports file level as well as block level cloning
Clone with or without resizing your volume
Can save your clone to another folder, external drive and network drive.
Create image of your Mac disk and volume(incuding bootable volume)
Restore your deleted image file
Supports SSD or ExFAT formatted partition files
Supports MBR partition scheme
Price: $39


Clonezilla:
Free tool
Supports so many filesystem
Mainly used for massive cloning
Consumes lots of time in massive cloning
Can't create bootable backups


So, after considering the features of all three of above mentioned cloning tools, I personally find Stellar Drive Clone better for cloning and imaging.