Best Mac drive cloning and backup software to protect the entire disk

So, our top pick for Mac drive cloning and backup software is – Stellar Drive Clone application for creating bootable clone and image of drive fast and easily within few clicks.

However time machine is a great inbuilt app of your Mac, used to backup your drive by creating image. But, it has certain limitations, which forces you to go for third party shareware program. Those who can compromise with their data can also take backup using free and unreliable Mac backup applications. But, experts will always recommend you to select best utility which meets your need perfectly.

Although, in the middle section of this post we have given an easy graphical representation and comparison table to let you understand user’s choice.

This Article has been written after analyzing the functionalities of a good number of cloning and backup apps available on the web. We have also gone through many reputed software reviews and discussion site's and on the basis of that we concluded that none is as easy and effective as Stellar Drive Clone application.

Before going into details about this software, we make you aware of the importance of keeping emergency flash drive always. As we know that drive failure can happen anytime due to numerous reasons related to hardware, software and human errors that can cause data loss.

Now, let us come to the process of creating an emergency flash drive:

 

What is an emergency drive?
An emergency drive contains only the essential (default) applications that are needed to boot your Mac and can also run troubleshooting Mac utility such as Disk Utility. Well, the above mentioned feature is only available in an adroit cloning and backup software from Stellar.
'Tools' tab of the interface provides two option:
a) Create Bootable Dvd
b) Minimal system

By selecting Minimal system it gives you a quick clone. As the name implies it copies only the required default files to boot your Mac OS X. One just needs to select destination volume and it also gives you an option if you want it to include some other app. So, in technical terms one can say this emergency drive is a minimal system having copy of Mac OS X installation to a selected partition excluding all installed apps.

Note: I recommend to use USB flash drive rather than optical disc to create emergency drive or minimal system by this amazing software. Flash drives are considered more superior because they work with Macs and you can update them as per your requirement. While today most Mac's are shipped without any optical drive.

One can also create emergency drive by an Apple Recovery Disk assistant using Disk utility but again it is a long and a bit difficult method.