I'll stick with Super Duper

I installed 10.5 on a 80 gig drive. I partitioned a 250 drive to 177 and 56 gigs. The 80 gig drive where 10.5 resides has only 49.2 gigs of information. When I try Time Machine to backup on the 56 gig partition, it says I need 29+ more gigs free space. Say what? Seems Time Machine is backing up free space also.
Seems rather lame. I'll stick with my trusted Super Duper. It's bailed me out a couple of times.

I use both! Prior to Leopard, I was using SD to backup to an external. I also have a Lacie rugged (portable) drive that I keep at my office -- once a week, I bring it home and back it up with SD. The reason? Just in case something happened at home ... theft, fire etc. I have the peace of mind knowing that in a worst case scenario, I lose a week of data.
Then, Leopard came out. So....I picked up a 500 GB My Book drive for $105 (sale and coupon at Staples), formatted it and started TM. TM is quite amazing. With a small investment in another drive, I am covered. Overboard? Nah...most are "underboard" when it comes to backing up; I'm covered.
My suggestion: use both -- you can never "over backup"!!

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G4 MDD Cloning with Super Duper

G4 MDD Cloning with Super Duper
My G4: G4 MDD Single 1.25 Dual Boot. Running OS 10.3.9
I purchased a new hard drive to replace my old 80 GB drive. Also, purchased a second new drive to use as a scratch disk. After cloning to the first new drive that I'll use for the boot drive, I will be taking my 80 GB drive out and putting it in a firewire case that I purchased, for backups.
I never did this before and have some questions.
I'm going to leave my 80 GB drive in my G4 while doing the clone. Can I run Super Duper that is on my 80 GB drive? Or do I have to put Super Duper on a Boot CD or just a Data CD to run Super Duper?
To Clone my 80 GB to my new 640 GB for new boot drive, how do I do this? Do I use a Full Backup, is that the procedure?
Can you tell me how I go about doing this?
Another question I have about partitioning. I was told I could use Disk Utility that is on my 80 GB drive, that I don't have to use the boot CD to do this. Is that correct?
Was told I use Disk Utility to first Partition my 2 new drives, then Format them both Journeled. Is that the way to go for formatting and partitioning my new drives? Then I would do the cloning with Super Duper.
Another question: I run Photoshop CS2, Popcorn, Toast, and VisualHub. I will only wind up having 2 new Hard Drives in my G4. And will be taking the 80 GB drive out to use as a back up drive, after cloning.
What is the best way to partition my new boot drive and new second drive for a scratch drive?
I figured the boot drive would be first partition for my OS and second partition for my data/files.
On my second drive, I would use a first partition for CS2 Scratch and a second partition for Popcorn, Toast, etc. Because I know the scratch for CS2 is random and the scratch for the others are more sequential.
Would this be a good scenario for partitioning my 2 drives? Because I will only be using 2 hard drives in my computer.
Also, what partition Sizes should I make? My Boot drive will be a 640 GB drive and my Scratch drive is a 320 GB drive.
I'm new to this and would really appreciate some advise! thank You.

hello,
I've just used super duper for the first time a week ago to back-up before formatting my G4 MDD.
It works perfect BUT I'd recommand you use the version for sale (not the free/trial one) as it allows you to access more options such as creating image disks.
It's around 25$ or someting like that...
I'd also recommand you to read the "read me first" pdf file that goes with it, it's very useful and clear.
You have to install super duper on your computer and run it from there to back-up on the remote HD. You can either create a bootable version (if your external HD is a firewire one, and if it is HFS formated) or a disk image (I used this option since you have to erase the whole external disk to create a bootable back-up and I didn't want to do that).
Concerning partitioning, check it, but I think you have to run disk utility from the bootable apple CD to create a partition (disk utility won't partition the disk on which the system is running).
good luck

How can I protect iPhoto library on EHD when backing up with Super Duper?

I moved my iphoto library awhile ago to an external firewire drive. I've kept my old iphoto library in my trash in case that drive died, but there are many photos that only exist in the iphoto library on the firewire drive.
I finally got another EHD (this one is a USB drive). My idea is to keep iphoto library on the EHD along with a bootable copy of my MacBook Pro's internal hard drive. However, I'm worried that when I create the bootable backup using Super Duper my iphoto library will be lost.
So I thought I could copy all the stuff from the firewire drive (where my only current iphoto library is located) to the USB drive and then move the library back to the firewire drive. Then I would have my working iphoto library and bootable copy on the firewire drive, and a backup of my iphoto library and backup bootable copy on the USB drive.
1. Does this make sense?
2. When I tried to copy everything (using Super Duper) from the firewire drive to the USB drive, my iphoto library didn't copy. I thought I had to do this because otherwise I might lose my iphoto library when I create the bootable copy on the firewire drive. (??)
3. Does it make sense to partition the firewire drive? If so, I will still need to move iphoto to the USB drive before I do that, correct?
BTW, my MacBook Pro is all full up. I can't move the iphoto library back to my internal hard drive while I move all this around.
THanks and let me know if I need to clarify...

prettyred
Never, ever, store anything in the trash. Would you store things in your trash at home? It’s far too easy to accidentally erase it.
I don’t know that you need to have an empty firewire drive for Super Duper, but pop over to their site - they have a forum too: http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/ and they’ll answer that question for you.
Do you need two bootable back ups? I wold think one bootable back up, plus a back up of your data on the second disk would be enough.
Yes, if you are going to partition a disk it will erase the data on it, so you’ll need to back up any data on it.
Regards
TD

Slow Cloning with Super Duper

I'm trying to clone my hard drive to an external firewire hard disk (G-Drive Q 500GB) using Super Duper and the download seems to go along nicely until about 80% of the files are evaluated and copied. Then, the process just stops after about 1.5 hrs. with the elapsed time counter clicking away. Does this indicate some problem with my hard drive or am I doing something wrong in setting up the cloning procedure?
I need to get this clone before I convert to OS 10.5.
Thanks

It could be a problem with a certain file that may be corrupted or extremely large on your drive, especially if the clone fails in the same place, multiple times.
With SuperDuper! running you can do a Command +L to view the log. It may have some information that might help you find where the process is going wrong.
For General SuperDuper! assistance:
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/index.php

Cloning with Super Duper Question

My existing startup disk is a 1TB hard drive and I would like to clone it to a 2 TB hard drive using Super Duper. I need more storage space on my startup drive for my growing photo files. Once I clone the old drive to a new 2 TB hard drive, can I just begin using that as my startup disk? Is it that simple?

Will work just fine, just choose the new disk in System Preferences->Start Up disk and select the new 2TB. Might want to consider putting photo files on a separate disk and keep O/S and Apps on start up disk only, less risk and better performance if using A DAM such as AP3
Matt

How do I restore a new Hard drive from Super Duper clone ?

The Hard Drive in my 2010 iMac died and was replaced with a new one. Thankfully I have a clone made with Super Duper of the old drive. Do I just clone back on to the new internal drive ? The new drive, installed by Apple has OS10.6.8 installed on it now (by Apple ), which is the OS on the clone. Do I need to completely wipe the drive before restoring with my clone ? All that's on the new drive is the OS. Don't want to make any mistakes here.....

1. Boot from your install DVD or Bootable Clone and open Disk Utility.
2. Highlight the new HD in the list of drives and select the Partition tab.
3. Under Volume Scheme select 1 Partition and click on the Options... button.
4. Select GUID Partition Table in the drop down window and click OK.
5. Set the Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and click the Apply button.
6. Once thats done then you can do a clean Install, restore from TM or the Bootable Clone.

Super Duper

Hi Guys,
I have an external HD connected to my MBP. I have manual backup folder on the same partition on my external drive. My external HD has only one partition which I also used for my Time Machine Backup. Last Saturday I have used Super Duper to create a bootable duplicate of my HD. To my surprise after the duplicate was done when I checked the content of my external HD the manual backup folder was missing and probably (sure off) was deleted by Super Duper when it was on the process of putting the clone content on my HD. The other thing that I discovered is that it didn't delete the content of my Time Machine Backup. Is there anyone here experience the same thing with Super Duper? Please let me know on how I will be able to recover some of the content of that Manual Backup Folder. I have tried using Techtool Pro and DW to no avail, it shows the folder but so far due to the size of it (90 GB) it was rendered unrecoverable by both apps.
Thanks,
Daniel D. Montecillo

SuperDuper has a built-in special provision for Time Machine.
From this SuperDuper FAQ support page:
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/showthread.php?s=eb00735c4ae761a33e3967210376 3909&t=3566
How do I store a bootable backup side-by-side with my Time Machine data?
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It's actually really simple. Assuming the Time Machine volume is properly partitioned and formatted for the Mac (as "GUID" for Intel Macs, or "Apple Partition Map" for Power PC), and is boot compatible to start with, just use "Backup - all files" with Smart Update to store a bootable backup on the drive. Your Time Machine backups will be preserved.
The What's going to happen? section of the main window will tell you exactly what will happen to your Time Machine data.
Note that it's better to store your SuperDuper! backup on its own partition, because Time Machine will eventually take over the entire drive... but it's not required, and if you have a large backup drive and a relatively small source, it will take a very long time.
Finally, if you do have your backup side-by-side with Time Machine data, and you want to start up from it and do a full restore, use the "Restore - all files" script rather than "Backup - all files". This works just like "Backup - all files", but skips the Time Machine data (which you don't want copied).
I tried setting this up using my Time Machine volume as a target, just to see the "What's going to happen" window, but I didn't then proceed. Here's the window I got:

Super Duper back up

I'm interested in getting the Super Duper Back Up System. I've been having some problems with my ext drive and plan to get a better one when do the back up. I've heard some drives are not bootable with Super Duper. Do you know whicj ones are bootable besides LaCie? I'd like to get a Glyph which is very rugged and is good for audio and video which is what I need.

OSX has certain files that are essential to making the system bootable. These files are invisible and have other strange and wonderous properties (okay, maybe not) that mean they can't be copied simply by drag copying the system folder over to another drive the way you used to be able to do with OS9. You need a utility capable of cloning. SuperDuper is one of those, CarbonCopyCloner is another, and there are a few others. Some people prefer SD because if you pay for the full featured version it offers some nice additional features.
Note that the term cloning sometimes refers to just copying files. What you need to do with some utility or other is do a bootable backup clone which will include all those special files which make the operating system work. This usually involves having a target drive with free space as big as the files on your original drive you want to copy, and it will also erase the target the first time you use it, so make sure there's nothing on there you want to save.

Super Duper error message on Mavericks

I have a 2011 macbook pro on 10.9.4 I am trying to back up my system with Super Duper but keep getting this error message at the end Error | SDCopy: Error copying /private/var/log/powermanagement/2014.07.19.asl to /Volumes/Untitled 1/private/var/log/powermanagement/2014.07.19.asl of type 8 due to error 5: Input/output error
Anybody know how to fix this.

I suggest you exclude the log folder from your backups.

Using Migration Assistant with Time Machine or Super Duper data

Can I use Migration Assistant with a Time Machine or Super Duper backup on an external drive instead of the original computer? I'm thinking of upgrading my Mini to a new one but only have one monitor. Not in the mood to hunt down an old monitor & buy adapters, etc. If I can, are there any tradeoffs using a backup instead of the original Mini? And is TM or SD preferable for this purpose? The current Mini runs 10.6 SL.

KevinD wrote:
Can I use Migration Assistant with a Time Machine or Super Duper backup on an external drive instead of the original computer?
yes to both.
I'm thinking of upgrading my Mini to a new one but only have one monitor. Not in the mood to hunt down an old monitor & buy adapters, etc. If I can, are there any tradeoffs using a backup instead of the original Mini?
none.
And is TM or SD preferable for this purpose?
makes no difference.
The current Mini runs 10.6 SL.

08 or stick with 06?

I haven't published my 08 website yet because I have been reading that there are problems with viewing websites on PC's. Should I stick with my 06 iweb knowing I won't have any compatibility problems? Or should I take the plunge and publish the 08 version? I don't have much time to spend on working through problems, that's why I switched to iweb in the first place. Also, I don't want all of the people that are viewing the site to have to switch to another browser. I'm using the website for showing my school classes. Last year with 06 the parents loved it. Easy is better for them. They are already having to download quicktimeto watch videos of the classes and deal with a few problems there if they are using a PC. Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks!

I have a partition on an external firewire drive that also has a bootable backup on it where I keep the iWeb '06 application and the folders with the domain.sites files.
iWeb '08 and the folders with the domain.sites2 files are on my Mac.
To use iWeb '06, I go to System Preferences/System/Start Up Disk, select the partition with iWeb '06 on it and boot from that.
If you want the applications the other way round you can, first of all, transfer iWeb '06 to an external drive to allow you to install '08 and then switch them.
I use the application Super Duper to create the bootable backups and, thereafter, to do incremental backups. Although it is a shareware application it will do the bootable backup in the trial mode. You only have to pay if you want the incremental feature - who wouldn't?
Get it here...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
I used to use iWebsites to separate out my domain files but I have gone back to keeping them in separate folders. I have a second Dock to the left of my screen, created using the application Dock-It, in which I keep my main folders. Launching a site takes three clicks and is faster than using iWebsites.

Super Duper and USB 2 external HD !!!!

hi guys
I intend to buy an external Firewire HD soon... but we just had another baby and have to save some money...
My question is:
Can I use Super Duper to clone OSX to my USB 2 HD? Even knowing it won't be a bootable driver!
But I believe it's better than nothing to have a copy of my OS in case I have any minor problem and want to go back to a previous configuration... in case an update makes my OS slower or I change my mind about an installed App. I can use the OS copy kept in my USB2 HD.
I know that if a have a major problem I won't be able to boot from my external HD but as I said I just want to make sure I can use it kind of like Windows' System Restore...
Cheers!

Nando:
I'm a little confused. I have two external USB 2.0/Firewire HDs and I use Superduper to clone my Macintosh HD in my iMac to both drives and I CAN boot from either of them. I bought Superduper specifically for cloning my internal drive because right after I got my iMac, the 250GB internal drive died and Apple had to replace it.
Booting from an external HD is great because it has already saved my bacon when Sherlock went nuts and I booted from an External HD and I used Superduper to revert Sherlock back to the last backup, which fixed the problem.
Whenever Apple comes out with an update, I back up my internal HD and then install it. If there is a problem, then I can reboot from an external drive and revert the internal to the last backup. Finally, and best of all, I can boot from an external drive and use Apple's Disk Utility to repair the internal HD without any hassles or version issues.
I purchased a Western Digital 160GB HD and I built another one (if you can call sticking a 300GB HD in a USB 2.0/Firewire external case and screwing it back together building my own) and they both work fine.
As far as price, I bought my external cases at CompUSA for around $60 and I just bought another Maxtor 300GB HD from Amazon for around $139. Drives are very cheap so if you want to build your own, you can save some money that way. Just be careful that if you decide to build your own that you make sure that the ATA I/F is the same on each unit. A case with an PATA I/F won't work with a SATA drive.
Good Luck,
Gerry

Super Duper help on unresponsive Macbook

Hello, I've already posted before and nobody has responded. Let me ask one of the questions I could really use answered and hopefully people can help. So I am having a major HD issue and disk utility (booting from the install disk, can't even get past grey screen with apple logo and spinning wheel) says I have a verify or repair failure: Invalid Node structure. I have tried PRAM/NVRAM reset, Verbose, and safe mode, to no avail. I just would like to know if this Super Duper HD copying program will allow me to make a copy of my HD and save the info, then I'll just whip the disk and start new. I am having a hard time understanding how it can work unless your computer is working itself, which mine is not. How can I download the program if I can't even use my computer? How can I load it up on my computer if it does't even work? All I want to do is get a copy of my HD's contents or even specific files onto my backup drive, but I can't figure it out. I've already tried Restore on Disk Utility from the install disk, but has varying levels of not working. Sometimes my Macintosh HD is greyed out and won't even let me add it to the boxes on the right to make a copy, other times it does, but then won't let me add the destination drive (my backup drive). This whole thing is just killing me. I just got a backup drive for a christmas present and was going to backup everything, but then my Macbook went on the fritz. All I want to do is make a backup of my HD anyway I can. After that, I don't care, but I need my stuff. Any help would be appreciated in advance, thank you.
Here is the link to the original question that has 0 replies if you need more background.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4667043

I have read these posts and have a comment. If your computer is running slower than it used to and you are running the same apps as you used to and your hard drive is NOT over 90% full then the problem is NOT being caused by having too little RAM. The RAM does not shrink. If all things are the same but it is now running slower then there is some other reason than lack of RAM. RAM is expensive enough that it is a real shame to buy more if it has nothing to do with the underlying performance problem.
Clean caches with Onyx. Do all the other maintenance with Onyx. Run PreferentialTreatment. Reset PRAM. Boot from your external hard drive that you have cloned a copy of your main drive onto. You do have a clone of the main drive don't you?
A cloned copy of your hard drive is invaluable for trouble shooting and the day may very likely come that you will be extremely grateful that you spent the dollars for one. It is so easy to clone your hard drive and then to clone the external back to the internal if need be. Everything will be just how you left it. Far simpler and more effective than making a copy of your User folder and then reinstalling the OS from the DVD. The later can take many hours and much work to get things the way you had them. Cloning is virtually effortless.

.trash and super duper

This will be confusing but I will appreciate any advice. The apple genius was not sure he knew the answer so maybe someone here knows what I should do.
I'm not sure it matters how this happened but it started with a failing hard drive and superduper. It's a long story but I ended up with 152 gb of files (all user files, all photos) duplicated on my external drive. I didn't realize this for awhile but when I did, I put all all the duplicates in the trash. Even though .trash files are hidden, they take up space on my external drive plus on my back up drive. I am afraid to empty the trash because I don't understand where the files really are or where the trash is since the only place I see a trash can is in the dock, not on my external drives. I use super duper to clone my mac hd as well as my external drive. I discovered what had happened when I checked the activity monitor and saw that my drives had suddenly lost all that space. Since I can't easily undo emptying the trash and can't experiment with one file, I am really afraid that I can create havoc with the system. Super Duper told me it's a bad idea to keep a lot of files in the trash. I sense that I just don't know enough about this to decide what to do. any help much appreciated.
Thanks.

you can see the hidden trash files. They began with a .Trash
slotless is an external flash drive.
/Volumes/Spotless/.Trash
The user Mac has a hidden trash folder in the home folder.
/Users/mac/.Trash
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
#Show hidden files. All file icons come out dimmed.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
#Back to normal. Icon are bright. Hidden files are hidden.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder

Worth upgrading to Mountain Lion or stick with Snow Leopard?

A few weeks ago some of you helped me navigate the pros/cons of buying a spanking new Imac vs a mid 2011 (I decided the 2011 was plenty worthy). I thank you for that, and now I want to ask: if I were to get a mid 2011 Imac, is it worth to upgrade to the latest OS, or is sticking with Snow Leopard (my current OS) fine?
I'm using some older software like FCP 6 and its associated suite of programs, and probably plenty of other applications I'm not thinking of at the moment, that I got back in '08 or so when I got the Imac I have now. I think I've heard that Lion/Mountain is a total overhaul of the OS compared to Snow Leopard, and that makes me wonder if there are compatibility issues/problems associated with trying to use these older pieces of software with the new OS. What are the super amazing benefits of Lion or Mountain Lion vs Snow Leopard? Are they worth it? Do the aforementioned issues exist? Thanks.

Someone else will need to answer your Time Machine question because I do not use it. It may work because it should port over all the applications, settings, etc. I was going on the assumption that you would be reinstalling your apps from scratch (I guess I thought that because that is what I did - I wanted as clean an install as possible). Anyway, TM should just transfer things - just remember, if any of those transferred apps have PPC installers and you get rid of your Snow Leopard machine, you'll never be able to reinstall them.
You might want to check these links (and by doing a search here on the forums, there'll be more):
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18179294#18179294
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16964725#16964725
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17434537#17434537

I'll stick with Super Duper

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