Will super dooper also work with uSB external drives
On 25 Oct 2007, at 18:47, Scott Bresnahan wrote:
Hi,
1. It depends on your Mac and firewire chipset, but yes. YOu can
boot from an externalofirewire drive. This is easy enough to test,
just use super duper and clone your drive to the external, and
change your startup disk in system preferences / startup disk to
the external drive.
2. SUper Duper is accessible enough--that is, I managed to do it
with voiceover.
3. Yes. YOu can migrate from an external firewire drive with the
upgrade assistant.
SuperDuper will totally erase your external drive's contents.
Therefore, I'd suggest formatting the external drive in HFS
Extended Journaledwith Disk Utility and naming it something
appropriate like [my hard disk name] Backup. SuperDuper will let
you pick drive volumes from a popup menu and doing a bootable copy
is very easy and it gives you a very nice sentence describing what
it will dobefore you commit to it. And for your purposes, you
won't even need to pay the shareware fee. Although, I do use it in
paid mode for my backup needs and have been very happy with it.
But, that said, the upgrade or archive and install feature of MacOS
Leopard's installer is essentially doing the same thing as the
migration assistant. I'd highly suggest you just install Leopard
in that way and avoid the assistant totally. Keep the backup
though, just in case.
Best,
Scott
