Reprinted from TidBITS by permission; reuse governed by Creative Commons license BY-NC-ND 3.0. TidBITS has offered years of thoughtful commentary on Apple and Internet topics. For free email subscriptions and access to the entire TidBITS archive, visit http://www.tidbits.com/ Carbon Copy Cloner 3.5.3 Agen G. N. Schmitz Just in time to create bootable backup of your Mac before updating to OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Bombich Software has released [1]Carbon Copy Cloner 3.5.3 with support for the new surfing-themed operating system. The release also adds advice about enabling full disk encryption while going through the encryption steps (as well as to the documentation), addresses a problem that Carbon Copy Cloner had with network volumes using a short user name, fixes a Mavericks-specific issue with the list of items to be copied, ensures that the 'silently skip' backup option is respected, and fixes a couple of issues involving Drobo devices. ($39.95 new, free update, 10.9 MB, [2]release notes) References 1. http://www.bombich.com/ 2. http://www.bombich.com/software/updates/ccc-3.5.3_a.html .