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« on: May 27, 2006, 11:14:03 AM »
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« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2006, 01:40:44 PM »
Interesting... CarbonCopyCloner is "not recommended." I gave up using it a couple of years ago because of serious problems, but I still read posts where folks give it Two Thumbs Up.

A lot of people are reluctant to pay for utilities like the ones reviewed, so they try to make the free programs work. There have been a number of posts on TS about Retrospect and problems associated with it, and yet some people persist in trying to get it to work properly; I stopped using it years ago even though MacWorld always gave it glowing reviews.  Apparently the reviewers never actually tried to use Retrospect...

Since backing-up is so critical, cutting corners when it comes to this kind of software is indeed Penny Wise, Pound Foolish.
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« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2006, 02:47:43 PM »
He says he didn't review .Mac's Backup yet since it requires a .mac account.  I'd like to understand what all the files in my backup folder mean.  It has a lot of files named by the date but only one folder of documents.

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« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2006, 08:46:17 PM »
I'm not a bit surprised that SD! came out on top. It is fantastic software with fantastic support. I've been using it for some time now. It's very fast and very good.

A tough combination.

You rock Dave Narian!

Oops, I haven't backed up for a while. Best go do that now while I'm thinking about it.

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« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2006, 08:54:20 PM »
I'm back already! (4 minutes flat)

I just cloned the following partitions to their backup partitions on my Seagate 300GB FW drive:

Macintosh HD --> OSX
Apps --> BApps (All, at least most of the non-Apple Apps on my system)
Files --> BFiles All my data files.

There's gotta be a lot of good to say about SuperDuper! !!!!!

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« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2006, 06:28:18 AM »
The current version of SD! almost justifies upgrading to 10.3.9+. It includes built-in scheduling (no more forgetting or remembering), even for multiple volumes. It will additional mount unmounted volumes, execute the backups, and then unmount the volumes.
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