Mike Karthauser said recently:

> so now i have superduper copying the hd over onto a Read/Write
> ³Sparse² Image on my external fw drive. i can't do a straight copy as
> the drive has over files on it and isn't partitioned.
> 
> this looks like its working but it running sooo slowly. effective copy
> speed is now 0.29MB/s. I've got 30Gb to backup. based on this speed i
> would guestimate another 20-25 odd hours to backup the volume which is
> un practical as i have got to be in work in around 22 hours.


Hi Mike

Maybe you could just back up your user data and not worry about the System
stuff which might be best to reinstall fresh in the circumstances. Its only
System based data that needs to be cloned.
You could just drag and drop User folders across to the FW HD.
all the best
Brian



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