Will SuperDuper make a clone of my entire computer which includes a mac partition and a bootcamp (windows) partion? Or will it just clone the mac partition like time machine?
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SD will only clone the Mac OS X partition. you can use Disk Util or WinClone to clone the Boot Camp partition. of course the external disk you are cloning Boot Camp to has to be NTFS or FAT (which ever you chose).
OS X only I'm afraid, you'll have to find another utility for the Windows parition - might want to check out Disk Utility though...
Also, keep in mind that SuperDuper is not currently compatible with Leopard. If you read the updates over at Shirt Pocket they say that the next update is imminent, but who knows how long it will actually be.
Also, keep in mind that SuperDuper is not currently compatible with Leopard. If you read the updates over at Shirt Pocket they say that the next update is imminent, but who knows how long it will actually be.
Yesterday...Also, keep in mind that SuperDuper is not currently compatible with Leopard. If you read the updates over at Shirt Pocket they say that the next update is imminent, but who knows how long it will actually be.
Time Machine lets you go back to your files as they were at different points in time.
SuperDuper gives an exact clone of one given drive to another from whenever you performed the clone.
SuperDuper gives an exact clone of one given drive to another from whenever you performed the clone.
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I've. Been. Waiting. A. Long. Time.Nice! You're really on the ball with this one, aren't ya?...
Seriously thought, I'm used to running SuperDuper! (at least) once a week, and having a 3 day old clone back when my HD died made that more of a nuisance than the disaster losing all my data would have been.
Really been wanting to get those clones back, I was saved by my Time Machine backup when my system totally crashed last week, but I'd been even better of with a bootable clone... reinstalling OS X (twice, just to be sure) and then transferring back the system could have been too time consuming if I had something that was really pressing...
"SD will only clone the Mac OS X partition. you can use Disk Util or WinClone to clone the Boot Camp partition. of course the external disk you are cloning Boot Camp to has to be NTFS or FAT (which ever you chose). "
How can I tell which format (NTFS or FAT) the external disk is?
thanks
How can I tell which format (NTFS or FAT) the external disk is?
thanks
so I want to make a clone (or is it called image) of my bootcamp from disk util - th window HD partition is in FAT 32 format - for the external HD I have that partitions into two parts - mac and windows. When I click on the windows partition of the external hard drive the format reads mac os extended. Do I need to change that and how is that done?
I've. Been. Waiting. A. Long. Time.
Seriously thought, I'm used to running SuperDuper! (at least) once a week, and having a 3 day old clone back when my HD died made that more of a nuisance than the disaster losing all my data would have been.
Really been wanting to get those clones back, I was saved by my Time Machine backup when my system totally crashed last week, but I'd been even better of with a bootable clone... reinstalling OS X (twice, just to be sure) and then transferring back the system could have been too time consuming if I had something that was really pressing...
This is one of the reasons I think I would prefer a solution such as SuperDuper over Time Machine. With Time Machine, there is still work involved to recover from a hard drive failure, i.e. reinstalling the OS, etc. as you say. With SuperDuper, as long as the backup drive is bootable, you could run your whole system off it, correct?
I have no back-up solution right now other than burning my most important documents and my pictures off to 2 DVD-RWs every month and storing them off-site. I'll probbaly pick up an external drive in the near future, but as my iMac is only 3 months old I should be sdafe from a HDD crash for a little while I would hope.
Then, instead of taking a couple discs to work I'll have to take a hard drive, but it won't be that much more of a inconvenience.
Yes...
I actually did this when my HD died... but since booting and running the system from an external USB drive isn't actually the fastest, I soon migrated some key files (and some important passwords from a Keychain secure note) over to my (backup) iBook and continued working from that while the MacBook was being fixed (I got them to change the slightly yellowing hand rests, too, when they took it in anyway...)
Gotcha... yeah, running it as a primary drive off USB 2.0 would be slow as a permanent solution, but better than nothing as an interim fix. Would FW400 have made much a difference in your opinion? Might be something I want to consider when I buy my back-up drive.... I'm just thinking worst-case here, i.e. my iMac's HDD eventually fails, I can't replace the drive for obvious reasons, and will need to run the system from an external HDD until I decide to get a new machine...
Thanks, psychofreak. I understand that any change in the VM causes a major backup effort by TM. I am wondering if I should exclude TM from the SUPERDUPER bootable backup.