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SuperDuper v3.1.1 is here, and it incorporates full High Sierra HFS+ and APFS support! SuperDuper is the uncontrollably acclaimed program that makes recovery easy, in light of the fact that it makes making a completely bootable reinforcement effortless. Drive-cloning utilities: The best Mac apps for making a bootable backup. Super disk cloning. Carbon Copy Cloner (left) and SuperDuper (right) are our top picks for Mac drive-cloning.

Reply by lemon4611 on March 12, 2017 I find your review very hard to take seriously since is is centered mostly around the price. Also if you find Time Machine so wonderful why are you adding another method of back up?

Over the last thrity years or so, it hasn't always worked. Better to find out before rather than afterwards. Eric Nepean wrote: These three products backup your data in different ways, as a result they each serve different purposes best. That is kind of the key to the whole answer, along with the idea that it is not an either/or. I use Time Machine to keep versions of files that go back months. I use Carbon Copy Cloner (SuperDuper is good too) to keep a complete bootable clone of every drive so that if a drive dies, the clone can be put into service immediately with practically no downtime. And while I rotate my clone drives off site, I'm considering adding online backup (like CrashPlan) to fill in my off-site backups between trips to the safe deposit box.

The main drive had a corrupt file on it causing me to initially not be able to get any data off of it. I travel a decent amount so the gaping hole in my strategy was that when my laptop wasn't home, CCC wasn't copying data to the backup AND Crashplan wasn't running. There was a week that passed that I didn't connect and make those happen. Luckily, a disk recovery software got the missing data (except for the actual one corrupt file) and all is well. I then decided to get a more permanent solution for my office that stays put and stays backed up. I now have an iMac that has two OWC RAID 5 drives attached (16tb and 20tb).

Time Machine does my hourly versioning. Carbon Copy Cloner performs two staggered bootable backups, one daily, the other weekly. And Crash Plan is my off-site backup (which, as a bonus, also does versioning). I feel pretty confident about this approach.

Perform actions: schedule, put to sleep the computer, eject the target drive, and more. Your backup files can be located with Finder, and you can restore them saving the backup to the original location or dragging them back. Customer support is available via email. You can download the SuperDuper free version, but functionalities are limited to backup and drives clone. If you want to unlock Smart Update, scheduling, Sandboxes, scripting and other features you need to buy the paid version for $27.95.

It seems to be backing up my iMac fine. Do I need to also backup(s) 'clone' my iMac system with Super Duper and/or Crash Plan?

You need not worry if you have forgotten to update your backup, as the update will be automatically carried out in the background as per your schedule. You can constantly change the time of scheduler, and by default, the backups are scheduled to occur every day. Versioning: It allows you to roll back to a previous state, as the previous states are always saved. This feature is most helpful when an issue has aroused due to natural or manufactured disasters. The different retention scheme allows you have at least 10 last system states to roll back.

It also provides some context for today’s Mac Gems review of ( ), which focuses on the improvements. SuperDuper 2.1 has all of the great features that made version 1.5.5 so good; it’s easy to use for the most basic functions while offering a set of advanced features not found in other similar utilities: • Easy-to-use interface. • Four different types of clones: Backup - all files; Backup - user files; Safety clone - shared users and applications; and Safety clone - shared users. • Four different copy options: erase volume and copy; smart update; copy newer files; copy different files.

I was able to do a full system restore from my clone (thus no need to start from scratch and reinstall every program, etc.). Then I just restored some documents and things from the Time Machine disk.

The more you think about backups, then the more you realize how important this is, and so it becomes less surprising that three contenders can be thriving away in it. What's maybe still surprising and frankly unhelpful is that all three have such a mix of broad appeal and specific strengths that we recommend any and all of them. That means this is less a smackdown, and more a sit down with a nice cup of tea, but we're okay with that. If you're in a hurry, just go buy one of them for yourself -- and the fact that it's for yourself, and you're in a hurry, tells us you urgently need backup -- and that Carbon Copy Cloner is your best bet. Backups are so important that if you then go on to buy one of the others as well, that's still money wisely spent.

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Try this: select SuperDuper icon, then hold the Option key, and choose Empty Trash from the Finder menu. The drag-to-delete method works in all versions of Mac OS X. Most 3rd party apps can be smoothly uninstalled in that way, but it is not applicable to built-in apps on Mac. How to Delete SuperDuper Remaining Files & Folders? Some of you may have noticed that, even SuperDuper has been successfully removed from Applications folder, some of its components still reside on your hard disk.

It will reassemble the entire disk using that snapshot. While I know that, I still use SuperDuper clones in addition to Time Machine.

• Shutdown the iMac and restart booting from the internal drive. As an aside, I typically don't keep the clone drive connected or plugged into the UPS battery backup. I only connect it when I'm going to do a clone.

• Empty the Trash to delete SuperDuper leftovers permanently. It is a little tedious and risk-taking to manually locate and wipe out all components pertaining to target app.

Have no fear. SuperDuper v3.2.4 is here, and it includes full Mojave HFS+ and APFS support! SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper's built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. It's the, allowing you to store a bootable backup alongside your Time Machine volume—and it runs beautifully on your Mac! Version 3.2.4 lets you ignore 'missing drive' errors during scheduled copies, and also improves Smart Wake, which ensures your backups happen whether your Mac is awake or asleep.and won't turn on your screen if your Mac is already awake.

But any changes to the contents of /Users (such as modifications to documents in your home folder) are made on the original drive, not the clone. What’s the point of all this? For starters, you can safely do anything you like while booted from the Sandbox clone—upgrade OS X, install new software, try out wacky system customizations, or whatever—and none of those changes will affect your original drive. However, you can also feel secure knowing that any changes you make to documents and settings while working from the clone will also show up when you switch back to the original drive. (Note that if you use the “Sandbox - shared users and applications” option, updates made to linked third-party apps while running from the clone will affect the original drive.) This makes a SuperDuper Sandbox a great way to test, say, a beta version of OS X. SuperDuper’s documentation cautions that you should not treat a Sandbox clone as a replacement for a regular clone, but as a supplement for testing purposes.

I use Time Machine in conjunction with Super Duper on my iMac. Time Machine enables me to go back and grab a file I may have accidentally deleted. SuperDuper enables me to boot from my small external that I clone on a nightly basis. So, I basically can take my iMac environment and boot up on my wires iMac. I have two drives on my iMac and Super Duper clones each drive simultaneously each night. Essential for easily creating a bootable clone of your internal drive. If your internal drive ever fails (and it will, sooner or later.) you can run off the external drive until you can get the internal fixed.

It's stayed at nearly the same level for a full week. Their tech support has been very sympathetic yet unable to solve the problem. Time to move on. Good strategy and as I said before, give Crashplan a try. It's free for 30 days and then you can go month by month at $5 and see how it works. If it doesn't just stop. It's less than a lunch / month = no brainer.

I am not computer litterate, hence my questions. Thanks in advance. Lena I highly recommend Crashplan and think it's a good practice to have a local backup as well as a backup that is offsite, assuming you deem your data as important. I back up everything via TM and use Crashplan but also add in another external drive (latest one was 3TB) to back up certain blocks of time of images/videos/data and then put that in an old bank safe. Thank you for your reply.

For our purposes here, close the manual and come back to SuperDuper. The interface is truly basic: choose your inside drive (the one you need to reinforcement) from the “Copy” fly up menu on the left. Choose your reinforcement volume from the “To” fly up menu on the right: Next, tap the “Options” catch and choose “Smart Update” from the “Amid copy” menu.

Verdict Acronis True Image for Mac has been rated five stars by the Mac users, who give value to simplicity and ease of use. If you are not worried of its high price, then it is the perfect full package backup solution for Mac users.

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Time Machine makes back ups of all files that have changed while retaining the old versions. This can be quite helpful in that you can go backwards to look at and restore an older version of that file. Super Duper makes a 'bootable clone copy' of your Hard Drive so that you can make complete restore of your Hard Drive.

Simple Steps to Uninstall SuperDuper on Mac OS X • Bernice Curry • 16-12-16 9:09 • 2518 Have no idea how to uninstall SuperDuper properly? Still have its traces lingering around your system? This guide will show you how to fully uninstall SuperDuper. For Mac is a 3rd-party disk copying and backup application. You can utilize this tool to back up the whole volume, and even your Macintosh system including permissions, user profiles and private settings. As a complement to Mac’s built-in Time Machine, SuperDuper provides adequate features, like making bootable or incremental backups, to satisfy the advanced users.

My habit has been to use CCC at the end of each days computing session thereby providing peace of mind, that for me is priceless. As you've duly noted the luxury of time machine, besides being fully automated, is its comprehensive store of ones complete drive.

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