Carbon Copy Cloner is just a UI for rsync. It's usable for a manual backup, and I suppose it can be automated with a cron job or other scheduler. It's not a replacement at all for Time Machine however which keeps incremental date-based backups.
I didn't say it did the same thing, just that it was supposed to be more reliable. I was just wondering if anyone had found that Time Machine did not live up to its promise. I've not heard great things.
Has anyone here had to restore from a Time Machine backup?