Even if your computer craps out, there’s no reason to lose your work. Rated five stars on VersionTracker, SuperDuper! is the dead-simplest and most reliable backup program for Macintosh I know. With a click, it makes a fully bootable backup of your hard drive. If disaster strikes your data, or if someone steals your laptop, you can boot and restore from the cloned drive.
SuperDuper runs on Intel and Power PC Macs, and is compatible with Time Machine under Leopard. Download and use it forever for free, or buy for US $27.95 to unlock scheduling and Smart Update. (Smart Update copies only the data that has changed since your last backup, enabling you to backup your hard drive in minutes instead of hours. Which means you’ll actually get into the habit of running the backup program every day. Which means you’ll never lose your work. Best $27.95 you’ll ever spend.)
Update Jun 3, 2009
Ironically enough, this morning, a routine backup failed. SuperDuper immediately presented me with a simple “report the problem” form that included a log of everything that had happened on my system. I filled out the form and hit SEND. Within 30 minutes, I had an email from Shirt Pocket Support diagnosing the problem:
It looks like your destination volume failed during the backup. Here’s some stuff from your system log that shows the error in progress: [etc.]
There were also simple instructions on how to test (and possibly fix) my backup drive.
There was even a note about some scripting additions carried over via migration that were likely no longer working on my Intel Mac.
This is unbelievable service.
To anyone who thinks this is a paid ad, don’t be silly (or insulting). I really love this product and this company. You will, too.
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