In addition to running hourly backups via Time Machine to an external 2TB Western Digital HDD, I am also running a daily clone of my MBA's internal SSD via SuperDuper! to an external 256GB G-Tech Mini SSD. SuperDuper! created a Full Clone the first time it was run, and then creates an Incremental Clone each day after that, only cloning the files that have actually changed since the last Incremental Clone.
I've been running the Time Machine backups since January 2012 and the SuperDuper! clones since January 2013 when I bought the G-Drive Mini. I have a Growl alert that runs at the conclusion of the SuperDuper! clone job that indicates whether the clone job succeeds or fails, and have never received anything other than a Copy Succeeded notification.
For no particular reason, today I decided to check About This Mac > More Info > Storage, and was surpised to find that the numbers don't quite match up between what's on my internal SSD and what's on my external SSD from the SuperDuper! clone job, particularly the totals for Photos and Apps. I haven't excluded anything from the SuperDuper! clone job - I'm using the standard SuperDuper! "Backup - all files" job that only indicates "All files on (source) will be copied to (target), except the temporary and system-specific files that Apple recommends excluding." I'm aware that SuperDuper! does not back up the Recovery Partition (and that Carbon Copy Cloner does), but I don't believe that's the issue here.
Just wondering if anyone with more experience with SuperDuper! or with cloning a drive in general can shed some light on what might be happening here, since it looks like quite a few Photos and Apps are not being cloned. That would make me sad. See attached files for more details.
I've been running the Time Machine backups since January 2012 and the SuperDuper! clones since January 2013 when I bought the G-Drive Mini. I have a Growl alert that runs at the conclusion of the SuperDuper! clone job that indicates whether the clone job succeeds or fails, and have never received anything other than a Copy Succeeded notification.
For no particular reason, today I decided to check About This Mac > More Info > Storage, and was surpised to find that the numbers don't quite match up between what's on my internal SSD and what's on my external SSD from the SuperDuper! clone job, particularly the totals for Photos and Apps. I haven't excluded anything from the SuperDuper! clone job - I'm using the standard SuperDuper! "Backup - all files" job that only indicates "All files on (source) will be copied to (target), except the temporary and system-specific files that Apple recommends excluding." I'm aware that SuperDuper! does not back up the Recovery Partition (and that Carbon Copy Cloner does), but I don't believe that's the issue here.
Just wondering if anyone with more experience with SuperDuper! or with cloning a drive in general can shed some light on what might be happening here, since it looks like quite a few Photos and Apps are not being cloned. That would make me sad. See attached files for more details.
