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Email and Growl notifications |
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CCC can provide several types of task status notifications. Ad hoc and scheduled tasks send notifications via Growl, a popular system-wide notification handler. You can also configured scheduled tasks to send email notifications when the task completes.

Growl notifications
CCC does not install or configure Growl on your Mac. Visit the Growl website to learn more about what Growl is and how it works, and how to download and install it on your Mac. If you have Growl installed and enabled on your Mac, CCC will deliver notifications when a backup task begins, when it ends successfully, and when a task ends with an error. How these notifications are handled and presented to you is configurable in the Growl preference pane in the System Preferences application.
Email notifications
To configure CCC for sending email notifications:
- Choose the circumstance under which you would like CCC to send email notifications: either when the backup finishes, or only when the backup ends with an error.
- If you have email accounts configured in Mail, these accounts will appear in the accounts menu. You can choose one of these accounts and provide your password when prompted. CCC stores email account credentials in a private keychain. Only CCC can open this keychain to retrieve the password.
- If you don't have an email account configured in Mac OS X's Mail application, choose "Other..." from the accounts menu and provide your email account information.
- Specify recipients for the email notification. If you would like to notify more than one email address, separate those addresses with commas.
- Click on the "Send test email" button to test the configuration.
