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I did use it in lieu of the migration assistance once though, and it worked flawlessly.
Can you explain the part where you say you can't boot? I backup to an external Firewire dirve. Shouldn't it be bootable?
In my case, that doesn't work so well for me, because I try to version-control my images for off-site archiving - you can back up using SuperDuper to a Sparse Image file (which is Disk Utility's native format) and then mount that as a virtual disk, but image files are not bootable.
The reason I use the strategy I use is that you can copy image files like any regular file, and so I can copy it to the network, whereas you'd have to go the extra step of imaging your bootable partition if you did the recommended route, and for what I do and how I manage my backups, that's fairly time intensive.
Can you talk more about Image Files? What are they? I use the default settings. What kind of backup is SuperDuper! making in that case?
I also would like to hear about version control, because I was wondering if I could buy a new drive and have a second backup in case the first fails...
It's easier for me to ask here, but if you want me to take these questions over to the SuperDuper! forum I can... Maybe SuperDuper! folks will chime in here.
That would be cool.