SuperDuper Vs Carbon CC Vs A.N. Other

Carbon Copy Cloner is great, but only if you want to make a full clone of your drive. If you selectively backup it looses its worth quickly.

Right now I use Lacie silverkeeper to do my backups. It is free and says it makes bootable backups although I haven't tested that. I find it easy to use and flexible in what it copies. It is also very easy to set up automatic backups.

I have both SuperSuper! and CCC on my iMac. I use CCC mostly, but wish Apple would release a lite version of Backup for all users.

I use SuperDuper partly because I like the interface - I love that it tells me exactly what it's going to do and what the results are.

I've restored from it on occasion and booted from it and all has worked perfectly.

The real benefit for me and why I paid for it, was the incremental backup functionality. Cuts down the time of making a regular backup by a huge margin.

I'd say it was probably overkill if you're not creating full-back ups. If you are, it's wonderful.