Application for Cloning a Hard Drive
Reading the Time Machine thread reminded my that I haven't cloned the hard drive yet for my Mac Pro. In the past I've used Carbon Copy Cloner, which I didn't find very intuitive, especially when it came to cloning a bootable drive. I've noticed that several people have mentioned Superduper. How does Superduper compare with Carbon Copy Cloner for cloning a bootable drive, especially in terms of ease of use, reliability and speed?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
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The speed is decent and will clone 250GB in about 2 hours 45 minutes. Another benchmark is 30GB in 45 minutes.
It seems to speed up the longer it is transferring and it will go faster for large files as opposed to lots of small files.
On average expect about 1GB per minute.
I don't use it much because I just clone once and then update the backup manually but it has never failed on me.
The best part of SuperDuper is the smart backup feature, which allows you to make an up-to-date clone of your hard drive in just a few minutes. Until Time Machine comes out, it's your best bet.
Is there any way for SuperDuper to backup my MacBook 60 gigger to a folder on my Maxtor 300 gigger?
No, but you can backup to an image on it.
Actually, you can just make a 60 gig partition on your 300 gigger and back it up to that, as long as you don't mind your 300 gig showing up as two separate hard drives. I did this with my pb, and I'm happy as a clam.
Galley specifically said "folder", though, implying they don't want to create a partition.
The best out there I have used. I use to use CCC but SuperDuper has become more user friendly and has built in scheduling. I backup my disk every night at 2 am with SuperDuper. It has saved my a$$ more than once. I do a weekly backup to a sparseimage over the network once a week too.
Once Leopard comes out I am going to see what shakes out with home directory synching. I will probably purchase Leopard Server and setup a dedicated MacPro or iMac G5 (I have this already) as a big file server and server on my home network to keep home directory's sync'd on all my computers in my house.
Until then, SuperDuper is the bomb.
One pet peeve-- there's some great bargains right now on Seagate and Maxtor external drives but these drives seem to be geared to Windows users as they don't come with Firewire 800. Still for the price, one shouldn't really complain.