Good to hear that you've got it running properly. I use "SuperDuper!" too, it's an invaluable tool, but only for cloning volumes. Unfortunately, when it clones bootable volumes, it does not clone the hidden 'startup volume' that allows re-installation of macOS, so I usually run a macOS reinstall after I've created a cloned bootable volume—the macOS reinstall recreates the hidden startup volume.
Time Machine maintains my system and personal files incrementally, the way I want them to for day to day use, and Time Machine volumes allow me to use the Migration Assistant if I want to clone a system's accounts onto a newly formatted volume with a fresh macOS installation. I don't use either for my photography files. I use Econ Technology's excellent ChronoSync utility app to backup and synchronize my Lightroom catalogs and working drive contents with two archive repository volumes. It is the most efficient and recoverable backup system I've found that keeps files completely accessible and manually manipulable with the Finder and Terminal. I've been using it since 2004 and it has never missed a beat. One of the huge benefits to using ChronoSync to copy HUGE numbers of files from one volume to another is that you can turn on verbose logging and review every single file copy or deletion it performed in a session, and you can schedule it to operate automatically and unattended as well. It gives you the ability to stop a big copy operation in the middle and resume it again without missing anything or repeating the transfer of all the earlier files. Recent versions also create and maintain bootable volumes, but I haven't used that facility with it just yet. HIGHLY recommended! https://www.econtechnologies.com/chronosync/overview.html enjoy, G > On Mar 26, 2017, at 6:27 PM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks, Godfrey and Cotty. > > After resetting the PRAM and rebuilding disk permissions, the transfer is now > proceeding smoothly. Only 12 of 16 total hours to go! > > Cotty, I’ve used Carbon Copy Cloner on my work computer, and it has done > well. I’ll give Super Duper a look. Once the files on my 1TB photo drive are > transferred to my 2TB drive, methinks I will use CCC or SD to make a copy of > the photo drive. > > Cheers, > > Rick > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > >> On Mar 26, 2017, at 7:01 PM, Steve Cottrell <co...@seeingeye.tv> wrote: >> >> Rick >> >> In case this is of any use, I don't use Time Machine, instead preferring >> the manual control of Shirt Pocket's 'SuperDuper!' >> >> It's the dumbest name ever for a piece of software that is in fact one >> of the best methods to manually backup a hard drive. It is very well >> supported with updated versions released regularly and the modest price >> makes it attractive. >> >> It doesn't do what Time Machine does, but it does mean that backup space >> is more realistic, IMO. >> >> It basically clones a hard drive, but from that point on, whenever it is >> run, it will assess the drive to be backed up, and the target drive, and >> delete and copy across only those files that have changed since last backup. >> >> I have used it for years and never had an issue. Always found it easy to >> use, and has worked when I needed it. >> >> <http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html> >> >> HTH and YMMV! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.