Comments on: SuperDuper! Mac Backup

By: Allen

Allen — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:53:42 +0000

I just discovered that Super Duper does not automatically save my address book! I have to manually save the ~/library/Application Support/Address Book folder. Discovered when Tiger erased all my addresses and phone numbers for reasons unknown. When I tried to recover just that folder – it was not in my backed up files.

By: Chris Doubleyou

Chris Doubleyou — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:37:57 +0000

Sorry, but cloning != backup.

It provides only minimal protection from user stupidity, unlike a real backup (e.g. Timemachine – yay!).

By: Chad Chabot

Chad Chabot — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:22:30 +0000

This is almost the exact same thing that happened to me when I began using SD for the first time, save for one minor difference: I hadn’t actually *paid* for SD yet, and all the same, I got an email back from Dave Nanian within hours of my error submission.
I was a poor student at the time [and still am, mostly] but how can you not buy a licence after an experience like that?

$35 CDN is nothing. A night at the bar with buddies, an evening with my partner.

Worth at least 10 times that amount on the occasion that your drive finally fails.

By: Stan Kossen

Stan Kossen — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:09:51 +0000

With no doubt in my mind, SuperDuper, is the finest, most efficient, and user friendly backup software I’ve ever used.

To me, one of its outstanding features is the ability to boot from an external disk drive, if necessary.

I strongly recommend it for Mac users.

No, I don’t work for SuperDuper. I just like the application.

Stan Kossen

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By: Jan Kabili

Jan Kabili — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:42:38 +0000

Can someone help with this:

I partitioned my 1T external drive, allocating 200 GB for a bootable Super Duper backup. I was happily using the Backup All Files command with the Smart Update option for a several months to make ongoing bootable backups of my entire 17″ Macbook Pro (whose hard drive size is reported in System Profiler as 186.31 GB capacity with just 14.15 GB still available). The problem is that now when I run this same Super Duper backup I get a message that there is not enough room on the external drive partition.

Why is this happening? I was under the impression that Smart Update does not save files I’ve changed or deleted on the computer, but just replicates what is currently on the computer.

How big should the partition be if I start over with a new external drive?

Do you know any way to re-partition the existing external drive to add some room for the backup without losing the data on the external drive?

Anyone know how I can contact Dave Nanian?

By: Rick Graham

Rick Graham — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:08:43 +0000

I am contemplating this software but I have questions first. I am a newbie OSX convert from PC. I am looking for a backup solution that will not ‘fill the entire hard drive up’ I am wondering if this software allows you to set, say 30 days of backups and then overwrites the first one. Thus I am assured that I have 30 days of backups. Will this software do this? I tried TM which does seem to fill your hard drive up. and I’ve tried CCC, which is dreadfully slow.
I have a 1TB eternal drive 7200rpm USB that I want to backup my MPC. Thanks! Rick

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By: Thiago Cavalcanti

Thiago Cavalcanti — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:40:40 +0000

I stopped using Macs in the last days of OS 9 (Now I use Linux exclusively). Reading more and more of this kind of posts has made me think about going back to Mac OS. Oh well… that… and the Air.

By: Krystyn

Krystyn — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:47:11 +0000

I use Super Duper also. It is, as the product name implies, super. And as Jeff mentioned above, support is excellent.

By: Josh Stodola

Josh Stodola — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:48:03 +0000

@Peter Mahnke:

You realize that all computers use the same hard drives, and that all hard drives eventually will fail regardless of operating system, right?

All computers use the same hard drives? Wow. Incredible statement. And the operating system has nothing to do with the longevity of the hard drive? Yeah, I suppose the architecture of the file system that your OS uses has nothing to do with the efficiency of the drive. You, sir, are the iconic Mac user.

@Everyone:

Regardless of my position on Mac, it is apparent by the comments here that the SuperDuper! product has significant user-friendliness and the company that produces it clearly has prestine customer service (hence this post). I apologize for taking the commentary down the wrong path!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:01:52 +0000

I think SuperDuper customer support is the best I’ve encountered. I usually get an email answer within 30 minutes.

By: Egor Kloos

Egor Kloos — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:22:02 +0000

I’ve been using SuperDuper for a while now. It’s seriously good software. When software is this easy you will backup. If you own a Mac you should own a copy of SuperDuper. It’s that good.

I don’t own shares or have any other connection to Shirt Pocket. So I can rant with a clean conscience.

By: Anthony Bosio

Anthony Bosio — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:06:06 +0000

@Josh Stodola

Ha! All hard drives dies eventually. I haven’t paid $2,000 for a hard drive in well, ever. (Though I sure people have in the past.) Also, Apple doesn’t make hard drives.

@Zeldman Update = awesome.