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Fallinangel

macrumors regular
Original poster
Dec 21, 2005
200
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Why is SuperDuper missing some files while backing up to my external firewire drive? And why doesn't it even report it?
It just says job finished, when done, but when I compare the size of my primary harddrive, where OS X 10.5.4 is installed, to my external LaCie, there is a difference of about 500 MB!!!??? :mad:


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I'm using "Backup - All Files" in SuperDuper.
Furthermore, it repairs permissions first, and then makes a "Smart Update Backup"!

What am I missing?

(Please don't tell me to use Time Machine instead!)
 

macaroniguy

macrumors newbie
Jul 4, 2012
4
0
Yes! It may trash caches, but it also misses some NEEDED files.

For eg. it omits copying some QuickTime libraries, and applications that use these will not even open. Each time I boot from a SuperDuper! clone, I have to reinstall QuickTime.

Maybe it's Apple's fault, but SuperDuper! should have found a workaround by now!

And..... it would be nice if they gave the USER the choice to omit what they consider unneeded files!
 
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