Thanks for offering to help @deanishe much appreciated.
The CCC command-line command to start a backup is -
"/Applications/Carbon Copy Cloner.app/Contents/MacOS/ccc" -s"Task Name"
Above "Task Name" is one of many backup tasks configured in CCC5.
"/Applications/Carbon Copy Cloner.app/Contents/MacOS/ccc" -i
The output of the above is new-line separate tasks along with their status (pipe separated) as per below -
Task 1|stopped
Task 2|stopped
Task 3|stopped
if a task is running there may be additional "|" separated statuses as per below -
Task 1|running|-1.000000|0|Testing write responsiveness of the destination...|
Task 2|stopped
Task 3|stopped
Task 4|running|4.494382|0|Initializing file copier…|
For more information please refer to this link. Thanks in advance.