Super Duper Schedule Problem

I have super duper scheduled to do a full erase and backup every day at 2:00AM. For some strange reason, it does not backup on the schedule, and only backs up when i manually open the program and press backup.
PLEASE HELP-- if i lose my information, it will be catastrophic, any suggestions are welcome!!1
Thank you SO much!

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I've found in the past that's a very good place to get support for SuperDuper.

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I'm using OSX 10.4.3 silver mirrored G4 front
I'm trying to prepare my external Lacie 250Gb Firewire drive for backing up using Super Duper:
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
Super Duper won't back up because it says the drive needs formatting for Mac, but in disk utility when I go to partition it and format it only MS-DOS file system is available as a format in the erase option.
So, I'm confused to know what to do.
Any clues anyone?
thanks for reading, hope to hear from you, kind regards
Alex

It appears that DU is a bit hosed. Move the com.apple.DiskUtility.plist file from ~/Library/Preferences/ to the desktop. Launch DU and repair permissions, restart, launch DU, and try again. If that doesn't work, then reinstall the 10.4.3 combo update, repair permissions, restart, and try again. If still no luck, try using the partitionDisk option with the Terminal command diskutil. See the manpage: launch the Terminal.app in /Applications/Utilities, type this into the window that pops up, hit the return key, and use the space bar to page down. At the end, type in a q and quit the app:
man diskutil

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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.

Time Machine in addition to Super Duper

My previous backup external drive died and I just got a replacement. I have always used Super Duper (which is great) to back up my computers so that I have a bootable backup. The question is---does it make any sense to partition the drive so that there is one partition for Super Duper and a second for Time Machine? What benefit would Time Machine add?
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Keep in mind that TimeMachine backs up changes every hour, keeps daily backups for a month and weekly backups thereafter. At work my backup set is about 125GB and I began backing up to the current TM drive in August. The TM backup is now 244GB. Prior to upgrading to 10.6 my home computer's TM backup was nearly 3 times the size of the backup set. To me, the value of TM is the redundancy and its value is diminished when older backups have to be erased to make room for a new backup set. For this reason I recommend that a TM drive be no less than twice the size of the backup set and closer to three times the size. This is in addition to the SD! clone I keep.
If your external drive is large enough then yes, it is fine to partition it. If it isn't, use one method or the other and/or purchase a second backup drive. Also, keep in mind that SD! can be set to perform scheduled backups and it can also keep archives (copies of files that were changed since the last backup).

Time Machine and Super Duper

I purchased Super Duper and did a full backup on my Mac Pro (I have 3 hard drives, the main one and 2 backup drives that are mounted on the desktop). Everything worked fine, I did the Super-Duper start-up/complete backup to one of the extra hard drives. The problem is when I run Time Machine it backs up everything including the extra copy of my computer that Super-Duper just created. This just filled up the extra hard drive that I use for Time Machine.
My question...
1) Is there a way to have the Super-Duper back-up copy of my computer but then not have it re-backed up by Time Machine? Do I need to remove the hard drive (the hard drive with the Super-Duper copy) from the desktop, and how do I do this... they are internal hard drives and not external hard drives.
2) What is the best way to undo what I have done and get the space back on my extra hard drive that I am using for time machine?
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Chris

As Neville says, you can exclude the SD drive from future Time Machine backups via TM Preferences > Options.
And you can delete the prior backups of that drive, too. See #12 in the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.

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After losing a hard drive on my 1.67 gh Pbook w 2 gigs ram, running 10.4.11 I'm using Super Duper to back-up the drive. I've created a bootable back-up on a FW800 external drive. Everytime I use Super Duper to back-up the drive, it damages Photoshop CS3 which won't launch. I have to re-install and it tells me it's currently repairing shared components. No other apps have problems after a backup, and I don't have any Pshop problem until I backup. I tried using Carbon Copy Cloner and got the same results, so it doesn't appear to be the backup app. The thing that's most confusing to me is why Pshop would be messed up on the laptop's HD, which was being duped?
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Super Duper seems to be frozen

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Thanks for answering. Last night, I let Super Duper run its course for another hour or so. Then all of a sudden it says that 175 gigs has been copied, and it finished copying shortly thereafter. But now I have another problem.
Last night, I set the new hard drive as my start up disk. Then, I opened up the programs I normally use and "kept them in the dock". I restarted the computer with my newly copied hard drive as the new start up disk, but the dock wipes out everything I add to it and goes back to the default settings and programs. I've done this a few times already and it's always the same result: default dock settings and programs.
Now that I think about it. This happened once right before I cloned my original hard drive. At that time, I downloaded the latest update (security and quicktime). On top of that, keychain keeps popping up and asking me for the password. It never used to do that. Is anyone else having the same problems? Do you guys think it's because of the update or was something corrupted in the copying. Any advice? Thanks!
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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.
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Last week I lost my phone. My passwords were all pw-protected, but yesterday I observed some odd changes on my computer, so I changed my password. I had a typo in what was written down, so I had to use the OS X install disc this morning, and reset it.
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I just installed more memory and a larger (160 gig) HD. My Lacie drive was set as the boot drive by Super Duper. I figured that I could boot up on the Lacie and restore the new drive. Well that didn't work! The new drive came up with a big question mark! I partitioned it but still did not boot from the Lacie. So I ended up having to install the OSX from my DVD's. Needless to say I was very disappointed. When I tried to run Super Duper it showed as an unregistered copy! I lost all my settings and emails apparently. Super Duper won't alow copying from Lacie Drive to Mac HD. What did I did wrong?
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Intel Mac mini or PPC (G4) Mac mini? Is the Lacie drive connected by USB or FireWire?
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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.
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1. Boot from your install DVD or Bootable Clone and open Disk Utility.
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Many thanks lllaass,
The Touch Copy third party software for PC's is the way to go it seems and although the demo is free, if you have over 100 songs then it costs £15 to buy the software which seems not a lot to pay for peace of mind. and restoring your iTunes library back to how it was.
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