USB will work fine for Super Duper. I use them all the time. Firewire will just work faster. You don't need to keep them connected all the time. You can schedule Super Duper to run at a time when you can have them connected (I have it set to run at 2am, and just plug in my laptop before bed), or you can set it to run whenever you do connect the drive (it can automatically run when it senses the drive has been connected).
On Apr 30, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Nora Probasco wrote: > Ok, I bought Super Duper. Now it is telling me it is best to get a firewire > HD for backup. I am backing up a laptop and cannot keep a hard drive hooked > up to all the time. Will that be a problem? Also, right now I am using two > USB portable hard drives from Western Digital. Can anyone recommend a > portable hard drive that has firewire that I could use? > > Nora > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Ed Wiser <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Burnett > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:42 PM > To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers > Subject: Re: [MacGroup] File Synchronization between multiple drives and a Mac > > > Well, I generally use SuperDuper! to make a bootable backup (complete clone) > of the internal hard drive in my Macbook Pro to an external drive. This in in > addition to the time machine backup I have and the Backblaze online backup > service I use. > > The benefit of the bootable backup is if I have a hard drive crash, I can > plug in the external and boot to it resulting in no down time. I can continue > to use my machine even before I replace the bad hard drive. This isn't > possible with time machine or a non-bootable backup. > > > As for the media files and such: I have a Mac Mini connected to our TV. There > are two hard drives connected to it, HD 1 and HD 2. I copy all of our DVDs, > music and Blu Rays to HD1. This makes it so that we never have to deal with > physical media except right after purchase. This is crucial as we have a > toddler in the house and I'd really rather not buy another copy of Cars or > Finding Nemo just because he scratched the disk. > > I use the "smart update" feature of SuperDuper! and it automatically runs in > the background every other day (you can set it to run as often or infrequent > as you'd like) and automatically copies any changes I'be made to HD1 over to > HD2. This gives me a bit of redundancy in case HD1 fails, I don't have to > re-rip/encode all of our media. > > > Do a google search and check out SuperDuper!. IT's great program and I highly > recommend it. > > > rick > > > On Apr 29, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Nora Probasco wrote: > > > > > Will it synchronize all the drives automatically or will I have to do a > manual operation for each one? Excuse my ignorance on the subject, but why > would you need to use a bootable back-up if you are already backing up your > files? Do I gather what you mean by media files are those found under > Documents? I am really new to all this backing up. > > Nora > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Rick Burnett <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd suggest ChronoSync and SuperDuper! > > SuperDuper! has a "smart update" feature that I use for all my bootable > backups as well as backing up my media center files. > > > > On Apr 29, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Nora Probasco wrote: > > > I am thoroughly stumped. Since having a hard drive crash I am now running > > 2-3 backup hard drives on my Macbook Pro. I also keep some of the same > > files on my back-up drives that I do on my Mac and need a software program > > that would synchronize these files from my Mac to all 2-3 drives. Is there > > any synchronization software out there that would do that? > > > > Nora > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MacGroup mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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