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- Carbon copies. And a whole lot more.
- SuperDuper is the most advanced, yet easy to use disk copying program available for OS X. It can, of course, make a straight copy, or "clone" � useful when you want to move all your data from one machine to another, or do a simple backup. In moments, you can completely duplicate your boot drive to another drive, partition, or image file.
- Clones, though, don't work very well when it's time to recover from an unexpecteddisaster. Unless you take specific steps, restoring a drive image restores everything on the drive, overwriting both the system and user files. If that's what you want to do, great. But it's usually not, since all the work you've done since the backup would be lost!
- Clones for safety.
- To ensure you can safely roll back a system after the unexpected occurs, SuperDuper doesn't stop there.
- With a few clicks, you can easily "checkpoint" your system, preserving your computer's critical applications and files while you run on a working, bootable copy. If anything goes wrong, just reboot to the original. When you do, your current Documents, Music, Pictures � even iSync data � are available! You can get back to work immediately!
- Clones for industry!
- SuperDuper has enough features to satisfy the advanced user, too. Its simple-but-powerful Copy Script feature allows complete control of exactly what files get copied, ignored, even aliased ("soft linked" for the Unix inclined) from one drive to another!
- SuperDuper is perfect for software developers, software "seed" sites, QA testers, even system administrators.
What's New:
Version 1.3(68.2) works around a Jaguar bug that prevented Mac OS X 10.2.8 users from unlocking their keychain after booting from a regular or safety clone.
In addition, you get all the goodies from 1.3(68.1), including: - Saved Settings You can save a whole group of settings -- source, destination, options and script -- and re-load them for re-use.
- Back-to-Back Backups You can now perform more than one backup without having to quit SuperDuper!
- Automatic Re-Mounting If a volume or image is available but not yet mounted, SuperDuper! will automatically locate and re-mount it. If it can't be found, SuperDuper! will prompt, and continue once you've plugged it in.
- Remembered source and destination volumes The source and destination volumes are now remembered when you quit SuperDuper!, and restored when you restart.
- Faster and Better! We've improved performance and enhanced our error handling.
As always, existing users should use the built-in, improved auto-upgrade mechanism.
Keep the feedback coming, and thanks!
Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later.
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Review by T: Great tool for making a bootable drive, great tool for making a clone of your hard drive to restore to at a later time. I made a clone of my internal hard drive when I freshly installed my system. Cloning took a while but it was well worth it. When something screwed up my system, I booted off the external drive and put the system back (5-6 GB) in about five minutes. (8/20/2004, Version: 1.3(68.2))
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Comment by Anonymous: Just moved my entire Macintosh HD to new PB... 45 min 19 sec and my new PowerBook has everything on it ( including Mac OS X 10.3.5 )... Thanx to Developer for answering my questions!!!
I'm not a poweruser and don't know much about Unix probably there is a better way to do all this but i was completely satisfied with the job that SD! has done...
Thanx again!!! (8/16/2004, Version: 1.3(68.2))
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Comment by SteveJ: The author contacted me via email and made it clearer to me what the purpose of Safety Clones is. I can certainly see their utility for developers, in particular for having multiple versions of the OS with the same set of files and data to test with. More importantly he sent me a time-limited demonstration key so that I could fully test the program out. Now that I've actually had the chance to try smart update in particular, I see that this program does work very well. Smart Update seems very fast, faster than Carbon Copy Cloner w/psync, and that's a big plus. I was also told that scheduling would be coming in the next major update. Sooner would certainly be better than later for that. (8/13/2004, Version: 1.3(68.2))
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Comment by Anonymous: SuperDuper sounds like it has some interesting features (though I find the "safety clone" concept dubious - seems to me what you most want to protect are YOUR files, not so much the system- "safety clones" do the exact opposite, protecting the system, but not protecting your files. Hmmm....) In any case you can't try safety clones and a number of other key features with the demo. The demo ought to be time limited and not feature limited. Also there's no sign of a scheduled backups nor of the ability to archive deleted files/applications, both of which are features I want. Having said all that, I also downloaded and tried Data Backup X and in my first test backup with compression, when I tried to restore an application from the backup, it produced a non-functioning generic application icon. Not exactly promising.... I also downloaded Synchronize Pro, but I don't like it's interface. Still I might go back to that and give it a full test because Data Backup X was such a complete bust, and unfortunately SuperDuper is short on key features. (8/12/2004, Version: 1.3(68.2))
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