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SuperDuper is a popular, powerful, and easy-to-use app for quickly creating a fully bootable backup (or "clone") of your hard drive, whether you're recovering from a mishap or just migrating between machines. Even better, SuperDuper is free if you don't want to pay for its more advanced features, including scheduling, scripting, and "Smart Updates" (which save you time by making incremental updates to backups using only recent changes).
SuperDuper's interface sets out to make backups painless. Less technical users will love its friendly, plain-language approach--for example, explicitly explaining what will happen when you press a button. More-experienced users such as admins and QA testers will find plenty of more sophisticated features, from premade and customizable scripts to the ability to easily maintain multiple OS versions across different drives. SuperDuper comes with a full user guide, responsive support, and access to active forums.
Data loss is inevitable, and every Mac user should have a reliable backup system. SuperDuper makes the process easy, effortless, and almost enjoyable.
SuperDuper - Back up, clone, and restore your data - Download Video Previews:Publisher's Description
From Shirt Pocket:
Carbon copies. And a whole lot more. The 2005 and 2006 Eddy Award winning SuperDuper is the most advanced, yet easy to use disk copying program available for OS X. It can, of course, make a straight copy, or "clone" - useful when you want to move all your data from one machine to another, or do a simple backup. In moments, you can completely duplicate your boot drive to another drive, partition, or image file. Clones, though, don't work very well when it's time to recover from an unexpected system disaster - like a bad driver or OS update. Unless you take specific steps, restoring a drive image restores everything on the drive, overwriting both the system and user files. If that's what you want to do, great. But it's usually not, since all the work you've done since the backup would be lost. Clones for safety.
What's new in this version: The latest version of SuperDuper! is faster, better, compatible with Mountain Lion (in fact, it's compatible with OS X 10.4.11 and later), and improves many parts of the user experience. Of course, it still includes great features like Backup on Connect, Eject after Copy, Sparse Bundle support, lets you store a bootable backup alongside Time Machine backups, copy Time Machine backups to other drives, and run scheduled copies on demand. As with every update, we've polished and improved many other... See all new features
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"Bad Product, Terrible Support, DONT BUY!"
Version: SuperDuper 2.7.1
Pros
I have to write 10 characters, so I will. This product can sometimes be used for a full backup of a hard drive. Users of Time Machine, beware!! If it doesn't work, sucks to be you is what Shirt Pocket Support has to say about that.
Cons
The actual product is very limited and poorly made, especially for the incredibly high price of $27.95... Might be worth $5.00... but even that's a stretch.. For what this product can do, just use the Disk Utility built into your Mac....
While it will make a backup of a hard drive, it apparently is prone to not work with Time Machine, at which time the people at Shirt Pocket, the company that makes the software, will just tell you that Time Machine backups are poorly made error prone pieces of garbage. Which is funny, because there was no problem with my Time Machine backup, I used Carbon Copy Cloner and it did a perfect job.Summary
Unless you enjoy being spoken down to by the Shirt Pocket Support, have $27.95 that you want to flush down the nearest toilet, and want to have to go spend the time and money to buy a different software that will work, I would avoid purchasing this software, and just go buy Carbon Copy Cloner instead which has much better software and support!
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"easy to set up, simple to use, reliable, great support,"
Version: SuperDuper 2.7.1
Pros
ease of use, simple instructions, amazing software support, rapid backup, can logon from the backup, the software has saved me from two Apple computer crashes and a time machine failure
Cons
only if one does not follow the simple instructions
Summary
some complain that the software only backups a full partition, not a portion of a partition. If this is a problem than simply create a separate partition for the data requiring backup.
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"I Like It So Far"
Version: SuperDuper 2.7.1
Pros
Allows separate backups of disks to other disks. I couldn't figure out how to do this with time machine.
It will keep track of changes on the original drive and only back up changes.
The interface is very clear with a dialog box that tells you exactly what is supposed to happen if you choose certain options.
Your backup is not an unreadable obscure proprietary huge file. It's a copy of the original disk that you can look at with finder if you need to.Cons
Haven't found any yet.
Summary
I just bought a MacPro with a 500 GB SSD drive. Not great for storage, but very fast. I do a lot of photography and also need a big storage drive for my photo archives. I had some hard drives from my previous computer that weren't very old and I wanted to set up an internal and external backup system that would work with multiple drives. This lets me schedule a bootable backup of the SSD to a 1TB drive and another backup of the storage drive to a separate 2TB drive. I can also back these up to a set of portable drives that I keep in a separate location.
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"avoid this software"
Version: SuperDuper 2.7.1
Pros
If I wanted to copy a whole partition this'd be great
Sadly I don't, and it is useless as a straight backup toolCons
Awful, restricted demo with no real options
Even paid-for version is lacking in decent backup options
I want to backup data from one place to another - how hard is this?
I don't want to copy a whole partition I just want to back folders
Customer service are uselessSummary
Why would I spend money on your software when the demo version is so terrible?
Don't promise things you can't deliver, I will never buy/try software from you again -
"Good, but many problems"
Version: SuperDuper 2.7.1
Pros
Copies entire partitions well. Even optimizes startup partitions when copying.
Cons
Only want part of partition copied or what to copy partition to part of another partition. An example.
You have partition 1 with folder A and partition 2 with folders A, B, & C. Copying A from 1 to 2 is no easy matter, it's impossible unless you are a programmer . I've contacted SuperDuper many times about this problem. I've never received an answer or usable answer.Summary
Great for some simple chores involving entire partitions. Not good for anything else.
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