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Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero

Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero
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Unsponsored Review: SuperDuper

Started by Christopher S. Penn · 3 months ago

I wanted to take a moment to very publicly thank the developers at Shirt Pocket for making SuperDuper, the backup software for the Mac.
A few weeks ago, my MacBook Pro started making noise. A LOT of noise. One of the fans broke and made my Mac sound like it was harvesting grain or sanding plyw ... Continue reading »

7 comments

  • Scott

    9 months ago

    Sweet! I love it when a product works. It's great to hear that it worked well for you since I use SuperDuper too.
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  • Richard Mondello

    9 months ago

    SuperDuper! is pretty awesome. I wish I could have used it the last time I sent my MacBook Pro in for repair, but, my spare machine couldn't run Leopard, so I was out of luck.

    I did use it in lieu of the migration assistance once though, and it worked flawlessly.
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  • Chris (Amateur Traveler podcas

    9 months ago

    I was really stressing when I upgraded to Leopard and SuperDuper was not yet available. Now that it has been upgraded and I have a full backup (just last night) I sleep easier.
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  • John Wall

    9 months ago

    As a PC user I must say: this is some kind of crazy science fiction story.
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  • steve garfield

    9 months ago

    Great story. I just backed up with SuperDuper! too. It restored my failed MacBook Pro to a replacement MacBook Pro with Migration Assistant when the new replacement system was Leopard. All I had to do was add in a few serial #'s.

    Can you explain the part where you say you can't boot? I backup to an external Firewire dirve. Shouldn't it be bootable?
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  • Christopher S. Penn

    9 months ago

    Steve - I back up to an image file instead of a partition. SuperDuper recommends making a separate partition on your backup drive equal to the space on your computer's drive - that Firewire partition is 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.
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  • steve garfield

    9 months ago

    But what if you jut backup to a drive that is not partitioned? Isn't the the whole drive a partition?

    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.
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