SuperDuper - 'Heroic System Recovery for Mere Mortals'
SuperDuper is an advanced, yet easy to use disk copying program. 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 for safety. To ensure you can safely roll back a system after the unexpected occurs. 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.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.6.4:
Enhancements & Bug Fixes
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Clones for safety. To ensure you can safely roll back a system after the unexpected occurs. 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.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.6.4:
Enhancements & Bug Fixes
- SuperDuper now prevents the destination from being manually ejected during copy
- Proper error message now issued when a destination ejects itself due to hardware errors
- Resolved AppleScript dictionary compatibility issues under 10.4 that prevented scheduled copies and some shutdown actions from running
- Overly aggressive copy verification under Leopard no longer cause copies to fail on highly active files
- Setting permissions on read-only disk images no longer fail when there are bad OSAXen installed
- Launchpad and Mission Control are now shared for Sandboxes
- Sandbox script syntax error corrected
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Indeed! This is absolutely spot-on. Night or day, I seem to get a response within minutes. I wonder if this guy ever sleeps, or does anything else. I really think he's brilliant, and absolutely worth supporting.
Dave's [the developer's] support is top notch: brisk, to the point, friendly.
This is a key point. Imagine a sudden hard drive failure. Time-Machine doesn't cut it. If you want to be working again within 5 minutes, get a tool like SuperDuper! or CarbonCopyCloner. Your hard drive WILL fail, at some point. Mark my words. Just pay £18 and you can sleep easy tonight.
The best part is having a BOOTABLE backup, If your internal hard drive fails, you can resume work booted from your SuperDuper backup drive
The UI (User Interface) is why I prefer SuperDuper! to to Carbon Copy Cloner. I guess it's down to personal preference - try both if you have time.
Simply awesome. I have been using SuperDuper! for years now, and love it! It has an intuitive interface (I love how it states exactly what it intends to do before you click "copy now") and it works beautifully.
If you don't use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! you're an idiot! I find SuperDuper! indispensable; it's easy to use, and most importantly, works exactly as advertised. Back-ups and restorations are reliable and trouble-free.
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