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SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner
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Personally I prefer SuperDuper! for it's ability to do backups only copying the changed files. And lots of people are reporting that it works well enough on Leopard: the incompatibilities appear to only be in slightly unusual cases.
I'm a fan of Bombich's software, Carbon Copy Cloner being one, but Super Duper does have a much nicer interface.
I just use Time Machine at home and image with NetRestore or the System Image Utility from Apple.
I just use Time Machine at home and image with NetRestore or the System Image Utility from Apple.
SuperDuper is the only backup utility on the Mac that preserves ALL filesystem metadata. CCC and all the rest have problems with something or other. See this: http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/mac-backup-software-harmful/
This is what I was told when I told a buddy of mine I was using CCC. Therefore I've switched to SD.
Yeah, the problem is that you can't boot from the external - at least that's what I've noticed...
Sounds like I'm sticking with SuperDuper... I paid for the software for scheduling purposes, I'm getting impatient at not being able to schedule backups at this point.
That's not likely to be a problem with SuperDuper!, rather a problem with the external drive. Not all bridge chipsets are bootable. For example I have a number of Firewire externals, all of which are bootable when SuperDuper! makes a bootable clone. I also have a single cheap USB enclosure: this is not bootable.
Nope, it's a SD/Leopard problem, acknowledged in their blog/forums. USB's are bootable, with an Intel mac.