Ah ok, wil it be ok to use Superduper with a time capsule? Or
would
it be better to get a USB drive, and use it with that?
On Jan 9, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi Dan
Time Machine and Super Duper are equally accessible, but they're
two
different solutions to the backup problem. What super duper does
is
make a clone backup of your disk, bit by bit, onto another disk
or a
disk image. If cloned to another disk, that disk is bootable in
the
event your main system goes down--i.e. you can boot off of it and
get your OS X system as it was at the point when you last cloned
it.
Time Machine is an incremental backup solution, one designed to be
able to restore your machine in the event of a failure, but also
to
be able to pull backups as they existed at a certain time or date.
It is an archival backup solution, in that it stores numerous
backups that you can open and retrieve files from at any time.
However, time machine backups are not bootable, you must first
boot
off your OS X cd to perform a restoration of a time machine
backup.
Super Duper doesn't do this, when you clone your drive with it you
get a copy of your disk as it was at the point you cloned it. If
you
clone your system again to the same disk at a later point, the old
clone is overridden.
Which is the best depends on what you want from a backup. Of
course,
you could always be safe and do both of them--a time machine for
normal use and keep your clone up to date every so often in case
the
hd in your mac goes down and you need a bootable system right
away.
If you're happy with time machine, though, I see no reason not to
stick with it.
On Jan 9, 2009, at 13:15, Dan Eickmeier wrote:
I'm currently using time machine for backups to a time capsule,
is
Superduper in any way more accessible as far as restoring your
backups? Or would it be beneficial to use both to back up to the
same drive?
On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:12 AM, Esther wrote:
Hi Mike,
There are two programs that you can use to create bootable clones
of your hard drive, since you're talking about imaging and dd in
linux. Cabon Copy Cloner is available from Bombich Software
and is
freeware. SuperDuper from Shirt Pocket Software is $28, but you
can use it in clone-only mode for free. Both these programs can
also update only files that were changed since your last backup.
SuperDuper has an extensive manual that includes explanations
about
basic concepts behind backups and has a chattier dialogue, so
some
people prefer it for this reason. Both work fine.
Cheers,
Esther
P.S. On the Intel Macs you can boot from a cloned disk with
either
Firewire or USB connections. On earlier model Power PC Macs this
could only be done via a Firewire connection. I'm just
mentioning
this because some of the furor about Apple's dropping the
Firewire
port on the new late 2008 MacBooks was centered around issues
like
this, and other ways to restore through Firewire such as target
disk mode.
On Jan 9, 2009, at 5:17 AM, Michael Ryan wrote:
Hi all:
Is there a program available for OSX-10.X Leopard that will
allow
you to create an Image of your hard disk for backup and restore
purposes?
Something similar to Part Image and DD in Linux? If something
happened, I would hate to have to re_install everything from
scratch. Not a Problem mind you but it would be a pain. I'd like
to Image my perfectly functioning system, complete with
installed
aps and files and just restore it if something major occurred.
TNX all:
Michael
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