SuperDuper

2 Feb 2009 11:56:05

Mark Ford

Does anyone have experience of using this for a bootable back-up?

Re: SuperDuper

2 Feb 2009 12:37:23

Douglas Cheney

Yes Mark I do and use it twice a week to back my HD with no problems at all

Re: SuperDuper

2 Feb 2009 14:38:47

Mick Burrell

It's worked for me for ages. I now have a belt & braces approach - Time Machine on one volume and a bootable clone on another.

Re: SuperDuper

2 Feb 2009 15:18:49

Mark Ford

Thanks folks - belt and braces sounds good to me!

I do the same as Mick. Time machine is OK for specific file or folder restores but Super Duper gives you a bootable backup. If you subscribe it also gives you an incremental backup. Excellent in both cases.

Re: SuperDuper

2 Feb 2009 22:57:10

Mick Burrell

Mark, it is perfectly possible to restore a machine from an install CD or DVD in conjunction with Time Machine but if you have a recent clone, it's a lot easier. Also, (and this is more important if your machine is used for any paid work or time sensitive stuff) if your machine needs to be away for repair for a while, you could plug your clone into a second (borrowed?) machine, make it start from that and carry on with your work. When your machine gets back from the hospital, you just clone back from your external drive. This has no effect on the contents of the temporary machine.

Re: SuperDuper

2 Feb 2009 23:13:36

Stuart Affleck

Excellent bit of software, well worth the money.

Re: SuperDuper

3 Feb 2009 10:34:17

Derek Wright

ditto
I use Superduper to maintain a bootable back every evening at 7pm, and at random tine intervals to a USB connected external disk
I also have Time Machine backing up the main drive to another internal drive.

SD is one of the best value applications around

Re: SuperDuper

3 Feb 2009 19:10:26

Mark Ford

Great - thank-you - I will just have to get on with it now.
Does the back up HD need to be a certain proportion bigger? For example I wish to put 212GB onto it so will 250 GB be enough?

Re: SuperDuper

3 Feb 2009 22:40:15

Mick Burrell

Yes - but you can never have too much space ;-)

Re: SuperDuper

5 Feb 2009 12:49:15

John Surtees

Wonderful bit of software. But be aware that not all external hard drives are bootable. Make sure when buying, that you ask for a bootable drive.

Re: SuperDuper

6 Feb 2009 19:49:20

Lionel Ogden

Speaking of bootable drives I have a Western Digital My Book 500g which has a cloned version of my main hard drive on one of its partitions, but this is not recognised by the start up disc preferences. Is this a peculiarity of MY Book HDs or is there some tweak I can give it to behave?

Re: SuperDuper

6 Feb 2009 22:10:03

Mick Burrell

Lionel, at the risk of asking the obvious, it's not connected to a G5 machine using USB?

Re: SuperDuper

7 Feb 2009 09:14:03

John Surtees

Lionel, I don't think the My Book 500g has the Oxford 911 or 924 chipset. This is the chipset that is required to enable a drive to be bootable. I fell into the same trap with a Formac drive a little while back.

Re: SuperDuper

7 Feb 2009 19:30:45

Lionel Ogden

Replying to Mick, The My Book is connecte to my Intel iMac running Os !0.5.6 and has 3 partitions one of which contais a Surer Duper Clone of the Main HD

Re: SuperDuper

9 Feb 2009 14:20:16

David Teale

I have used it successfully ever since I heard Mick's presentation on it in Salisbury
Good Value