Hi Dan, Paul, Mike, and Others, Like Mike, I've used both SuperDuper! and Carbon Copy Cloner. And like Mike and Dan, I'm mostly using CCC right now, but I think it's more a question of personal preference. For the purposes of making a bootable clone of your hard drive, which is one of the main uses of these programs in contrast to Apple's built-in Time Machine backup, either program will work: this functionality is complete in the free trial download of SuperDuper!
Mike Bombich (developer of CCC) did work for Apple for several years after writing the first few versions of CCC for his own work as an IT support guy in higher education, and then making it generally available. However, he's currently working on his own projects, so there is no direct affiliation with Apple now. Lynne Smith, one of the mods/owners of the mac-access list wrote up a nice article on making backup clone drives with CCC, SuperDuper! or with Terminal: http://www.mac-access.net/Extras/System_Backup.html As Mike says, both of these are good products. I like the fact that CCC gives good, brief descriptions, and seems to be a bit faster. However, many new users like the more extensive documentation of SuperDuper! So it really is a question of style, here. I have one question for others who have used these products. Does anyone who uses a Bootcamp partition know the preferred means of backup via these software packages? I'm asking for someone else, since I don't use Windows on my Mac. My understanding from reading the FAQs is that CCC will copy the Bootcamp partition, but that you can't directly boot into the Bootcamp partition using the cloned drive. You can copy the Bootcamp partition back onto your main hard drive after you've done a system upgrade. It appeared to me that Super Duper! would not handle the Bootcamp partition at all, although both these products can handle backing up a Virtual Machine. Does anyone know how Bootcamp partitions (using Windows XP) work in Lion? The reason this may be tricky is that the Lion installation creates a recovery partition, and I don't believe the system "knows" about Bootcamp partitions that may be present on the disk when it writes the new recovery partition. Thanks for any pointers on this. Cheers, Esther On Jul 24, 2011, at 19:07, Dan wrote: > Hello, > I currently don't use Super-Duper, so I don't know about them. > CCC was updated a few days ago. Also, I read somewhere that the developer of > CCC works for Apple. So I don't think you'll go wrong. > > > Dan > > On Jul 24, 2011, at 9:59 PM, Paul Henrichsen wrote: > >> Thanks, Mike. So, It would appear the smarter move would be to use carbon >> copy cloner and save yourself $26. I just wanted to make sure they had the >> same features before I decided which to buy. >> SuperDuper has that sandbox feature, but that doesn't sound like anything >> I'd use. >> I'm also a bit concerned as to how often a developer would update a free >> program as opposed to one where he made some money from the program. >> I guess you have to assume that people will pay the $10 to the CCC program >> developer and not just continue to use is program for free. >> >> On Jul 24, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: >> >>> Both programs have this feature, but you need to purchase super duper to >>> get it, carbon copy cloner is totally free, though you can make a donation, >>> which is worth it, it's a great program. I use carbon copy cloner myself, >>> but super duper is a great program as well. >>> On Jul 23, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Paul Henrichsen wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, Guys. I am wondering if there is any significance between Carbon Copy >>>> Cloner and SuperDuper. Obviously, one is free and one costs $26. But do >>>> both have the smart backup feature? >>>> I'm trying to figure which to get, but I really want the smart backup >>>> feature so my backups to a USB drive won't take so long. >>>> Thanks for any help. >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
