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SuperDuper! Tuesday

Avatar Stuart Affleck
For those of you that use this little gem and are waiting for the Leopard-compatible version, it's out tomorrow, so says Dave the developer's blog. http://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/

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Avatar Thomas Maude
I use super duper already with Leopard and it's perfect - just checked for an update today but nothing showing yet - but I'll keep looking - thanks for the info Stuart
Tom

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Avatar Douglas Cheney
I am using Carbon Copy Cloner and that works very well with Leopard

Re: SuperDuper! Tuesday

Avatar Stuart Affleck
I imagine he meant Tuesday evening our time. CCC works well, but you don't have Smart Update (or at least the version I used didn't).

Re: SuperDuper! Tuesday

Avatar Mick Burrell
I'd worry that as the people at Shirt Pocket had to work so hard to get SuperDuper! to work exactly right that any backup software that didn't need an update for Leopard may only appear to work O.K. The stuff they're talking about having had to fix is way over my head so I have to trust someone!!!

You may gather I'm a SD fan - but I'm sure there are just as many, if not more CCC fans, so, each to his own. If you're happy with what you have, why change?

Re: SuperDuper! Tuesday

Avatar Mick Burrell
It's probably out now - their site won't load, probably from so many people downloading!

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Avatar Thomas Maude
interesting reading all the posts - an important part of SD is that if you pay to get the the full version about a tenner if I remember rightly - this enables you to add your daily or weekly data to the bootable copy that you have already cloned - so it takes about 3-5 mins to add your weekly work to a bootable fully cloned disk which seems to be what everyone is looking for- CCC is a great little free app but cloning the whole disk on a regular basis can be a bit of a bind compared to 5 mins with SD - It's interesting to hear all your thoughts about the whole bakup experience though
Tom

Re: SuperDuper! Tuesday

Avatar Mick Burrell
I can confirm that the new version works fine here.

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Avatar Douglas Cheney
Have tried the new version and it works fine for me

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Avatar Thomas Maude
same here
Tom

Re: SuperDuper! Tuesday

Avatar Stuart Affleck
And same here as well. I think we're agreed on that :)

Re: SuperDuper! Tuesday

Avatar Roy Rainford
For someone who doesn't yet have a bootable external drive, what are the pros & cons please of using SuperDuper rather than a Time Machine external drive? Roy

Re: SuperDuper! Tuesday

Avatar Mick Burrell
In truth Roy it's marginal but a matter of convenience if your external drive (now that they're cheap) is large enough. Time Machine will deal with recovering any accidentally deleted or corrupted files and can be used for a complete restore, but it will not boot your Mac. For that you would need to use the original Leopard or install DVDs. So in the event of hard drive failure, it's possible, if a little time consuming to use the DVD and Time Machine.

However, if you have a clone on a firewire drive, you can boot from that. If you've kept it reasonably up to date then it's much quicker and easier than the previous method.

As an example, if the hard drive fails in an iMac, you'd probably send it off for repair rather than attempt it yourself (yes?). If a friend loaned you a laptop or you have one of your own, you could use your firewire clone as a startup disc and run from that without disturbing the data on the internal drive of the laptop. When your repaired machine returns, clone back onto the new drive.

As an example of size needed, most people say you need a Time Machine drive bigger than your internal drive. I don't understand this. You need it to be bigger than the amount of data on your internal drive plus room for that and Time machine to grow. Using my own situation as an example (actual sizes pulled from Disk Utility not manufacturer's sizes), I have a 232Gb internal drive but only 76Gb is used. If buying for this purpose I would therefore opt for a Time Machine drive of at least say 160Gb. In practical terms Time machine makes a full backup of all files unless you tell it to omit some so when I started using it (mid December) it will have copied all 76Gb across. Today, about six weeks on, it stands at 86Gb so it will be quite some time before the disc is full and older backups "drop off" the end - probably 12 months or more which I deem fine. A larger disc will allow older backups.

I actually have a 500Gb firewire which shows in DU as 466Gb. I've created two volumes - 200Gb for my clone (loads of free space available!) and the remaining 266Gb for Time machine. So I'll probably get two years TM backups!

Hope that helps.

Re: SuperDuper! Tuesday

Avatar Roy Rainford
Many thanks Mick. Yes that does help. Roy
 
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