SuperDuper

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

I'm just thinking worst-case here

I think I'd preferred a nice 3.5" FW drive with a fanned enclosure for that... they're a bit mote expensive, but if you suddenly might have to rely on it as a boot disk a FireWire disk should give you better overall performance over a USB one... also a typical 3.5" disk @7200 in a self-powered and fanned "desktop" enclosure will almost always be better than the smaller, more protable 2.5" disks in enclosures drawing power from the connector... </over explanation>

 

[~Shard~]

I think I'd preferred a nice 3.5" FW drive with a fanned enclosure for that... they're a bit mote expensive, but if you suddenly might have to rely on it as a boot disk a FireWire disk should give you better overall performance over a USB one... also a typical 3.5" disk @7200 in a self-powered and fanned "desktop" enclosure will almost always be better than the smaller, more protable 2.5" disks in enclosures drawing power from the connector... </over explanation>

That's along the lines of what I was thinking - thanks for the feedback.

 

[skd]

so superduper doesn't make a clone of bootcamp -
if I'm running my window programs with VM or Parallells thru the mac HD, does superduper make a clone of the window programs and settings?

 

[stevep]

if I'm running my window programs with VM or Parallells thru the mac HD, does superduper make a clone of the window programs and settings?

I'm sure it does. I can run parallels off my backup clone.

ps SuperDuper - excellent tech support from this company- you could always drop them an email.

 

[dvd]

Fusion (and probably Parallels) can be configured to use an existing bootcamp partition.. if so, SuperDuper won't back that up. But if you create a new virtual disk using either tool, that will get backed up.

I love SuperDuper! and I'm happy to finally see it Leopard compatible.

How does the backup it creates differ from simply using the built-in Disk Utility to "restore" your internal drive onto your backup drive? That seems like a good way to get an occasional full backup for off-site storage, etc.

Seems like both ways, you end up with a bootable backup.

Thanks!