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SuperDuper is an advanced, yet easy to use disk copying program. 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 for safety. To ensure you can safely roll back a system after the unexpected occurs. With a few clicks, you can easily "checkpoint" your system, preserving your computer's critical applications and files while you run on a working, bootable copy. If anything
Clones for safety. To ensure you can safely roll back a system after the unexpected occurs. With a few clicks, you can easily "checkpoint" your system, preserving your computer's critical applications and files while you run on a working, bootable copy. If anything
What's New
Version 2.6.4:
Enhancements & Bug Fixes
- SuperDuper now prevents the destination from being manually ejected during copy
- Proper error message now issued when a destination ejects itself due to hardware errors
- Resolved AppleScript dictionary compatibility issues under 10.4 that prevented scheduled copies and some shutdown actions from running
- Overly aggressive copy verification under Leopard no longer cause copies to fail on highly active files
- Setting permissions on read-only disk images no longer fail when there are bad OSAXen installed
- Launchpad and Mission Control are now shared for Sandboxes
- Sandbox script syntax error corrected
Version 2.6.4:
Enhancements & Bug Fixes
- SuperDuper now prevents the destination from being manually ejected during copy
- Proper error message now issued when a destination ejects itself due to hardware errors
- Resolved AppleScript dictionary compatibility issues under 10.4 that prevented scheduled copies and some shutdown actions from running
- Overly aggressive copy verification under more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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SuperDuper is an advanced, yet easy to use disk copying program. 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 for safety. To ensure you can safely roll back a system after the unexpected occurs. With a few clicks, you can easily "checkpoint" your system, preserving your computer's critical applications and files while you run on a working, bootable copy. If anything goes wrong, just reboot to the original. When you do, your current Documents, Music, Pictures -- even iSync data -- are available! You can get back to work immediately.
Clones for industry! SuperDuper has enough features to satisfy the advanced user, too. Its simple-but-powerful Copy Script feature allows complete control of exactly what files get copied, ignored, even aliased ("soft linked" for the Unix inclined) from one drive to another.
Clones for safety. To ensure you can safely roll back a system after the unexpected occurs. With a few clicks, you can easily "checkpoint" your system, preserving your computer's critical applications and files while you run on a working, bootable copy. If anything goes wrong, just reboot to the original. When you do, your current Documents, Music, Pictures -- even iSync data -- are available! You can get back to work immediately.
Clones for industry! SuperDuper has enough features to satisfy the advanced user, too. Its simple-but-powerful Copy Script feature allows complete control of exactly what files get copied, ignored, even aliased ("soft linked" for the Unix inclined) from one drive to another.
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Bigboysdad reviewed on 21 Jan 2012
MacBloke reviewed on 11 Jan 2012
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Carbon Copy Cloner can do this, why not SuperDuper?
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You'll need an app that does "block-level" clones to keep that partition like Carbon Copy Cloner (set to block level), Clone X or Stellar Drive Clone. At least until the SuperDuper dev addresses this issue and adds block level cloning to the app.
For more info, MacFixit.com explains it in much more detail.
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Davyboy reviewed on 08 Dec 2011
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Donmontalvo reviewed on 07 Nov 2011
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Frontpage reviewed on 21 Oct 2011
And it's free when that's all you need.
SuperDuper wants to wipe the drive before cloning onto a temporary one. I had hoped that it could be done using the free space on a 2TB drive, but the program warns that it must erase the whole drive before installing data to make it bootable. So don't just hit OK, unless you're fine with having all information wiped out. My original internal 2.5" drive rated at 5400 rpm xferred @ 9 MB/sec, while this 7200rpm drive is accepting @ 24 MB/sec, all information shown as the copying process takes place. Great app!
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So to be safe, don't add or delete or move anything during the process. It would be nice if, when the app sees a problem, that it can pause instead of stop, and ask if you really need the changes to be applied, or whether you need the whole thing to start over.
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myiphoneadventure reviewed on 17 Oct 2011
SuperDuper has saved my skin on one occasion, and using it to create backup drives has provided me peace of mind since then. I'd bet competing products probably work as well, but I know with 100% certainty that SuperDuper works. When I had my "incident" I was using the free version, and upgraded to the paid version after. If you are doing regular disk backups you'll want to get the paid version as the "smart update" copy (which only updates changes on the disk) is exponentially faster.
I also love how SuperDuper will mount your backup drive, backup to it, and unmount it. For the longest time I had no idea that SuperDuper was capable of this feat. Currently I just leave my backup drives unmounted and let SuperDuper do its thing every night as 2 AM.
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Cowicide reviewed on 11 Oct 2011
Otherwise great product aside from some needed interface improvements (like making the process of ignoring folder/files much more intuitive and quicker) and the fact you can't delete a "copy script" unless you physically find it on your computer, etc. and editing them is rather cumbersome.
Do wish the SuperDuper! dev would look at these issues and improve this app.
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Now I'm hesitant to download this upgrade directly from here. Any advice? -MTC
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Sorry for the trouble!
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http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/
Has "Shirt-Pocket" gone out out of business or closed shop? Their website appears to be down and I can't seem to find any alternative servers to download SuperDuper! 2.6.2
Can anyone provide any info?
Thanks in advance.
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Please help
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sorry about wrong bug report…
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On a side note, the SD icon in the .dmg had corrupted or no icon image at all.
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•Leopard Ready (Privileges)
•Progress Bar not Work on Large File Copy
•Some copy to ImageDisk made "error, not enought space left"
Thank for tour Great/Nice Soft
One (small) issue though...after a successful backup, the program will not quit. It doesn't freeze up, it just seems to require a force quit to get out of it. The backup definitely proceeds successfully though. Not a big deal but thought it was worth mentioning to make sure there isn't some stability issue lurking. Running 10.4.9 on a powerbook G4.
Again, this program is awesome.
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SuperDuper! Log (Created Friday, November 12, 2004 12:14:45 PM America/New_York)
[***] Friday, November 12, 2004 12:15:25 PM America/New_York
|12:15:25 PM|Info| SuperDuper!, version 71, path: /Applications/Utilities/SuperDuper!.app, OS: 10.3.6 (7R28)
|12:15:25 PM|Info| Source Drive: /Volumes/MAC 08, name: MAC 08, device: /dev/disk1s5 type: hfs, OS: N/A, capacity: 74.52 GB, used: 2.99 GB, directories: 1554, files: 16809
|12:15:25 PM|Info| Target Image: /Users/Shared/G4-MAC08.dmg, name: G4-MAC08.dmg
|12:15:25 PM|Info| Copy Mode : Copy all files.
|12:15:25 PM|Info| Copy Script : Backup - all files.dset
|12:15:25 PM|Info| Transcript : ImageTranscript.plist
|12:15:25 PM|Info| PHASE: Prepare Volumes
|12:15:25 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Enable Permissions
|12:15:25 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on MAC 08
|12:15:25 PM|Info| Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
|12:15:25 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for MAC 08
|12:15:25 PM|Info| Permissions on '/Volumes/MAC 08' are enabled.
|12:15:25 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Prepare ASR image "G4-MAC08.dmg"
|12:15:25 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Creating disk image /Users/Shared/G4-MAC08.dmg
|12:15:26 PM|Info| Initializing...
|12:15:27 PM|Info| Creating...
|12:15:28 PM|Info| Formatting...
|12:15:28 PM|Info| Finishing...
|12:15:28 PM|Info| created: /Users/Shared/G4-MAC08.dmg.sparseimage
|12:15:28 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Mounting /Users/Shared/G4-MAC08.dmg on /tmp/SVUmount
|12:15:30 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on /Users/Shared/G4-MAC08.dmg mounted on /tmp/SVUmount
|12:15:30 PM|Info| Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
|12:15:30 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for /Users/Shared/G4-MAC08.dmg mounted on /tmp/SVUmount
|12:15:30 PM|Info| Permissions on '/tmp/SVUmount' are enabled.
|12:15:30 PM|Info| PHASE: Clone from Source to Target
|12:15:30 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Copy Files from MAC 08 to "G4-MAC08.dmg"
|12:15:30 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Copying MAC 08 to /Users/Shared/G4-MAC08.dmg
|12:15:30 PM|Info| Copying all files using script: /Applications/Utilities/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
|12:15:31 PM|Info| Loading 19 commands from copy script /Applications/Utilities/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system temporary files.dset
|12:15:31 PM|Info| Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/Utilities/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Norton FileSaver files.dset
|12:15:31 PM|Info| Loading 2 commands from copy script /Applications/Utilities/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
|12:15:31 PM|Info| Copy script command hash contains 9 commands
|12:16:04 PM|Info| Ignoring /Volumes/MAC 08/private/var/run
|12:16:04 PM|Info| Ignoring /Volumes/MAC 08/private/var/tmp/mnta
|12:16:04 PM|Info| Ignoring /Volumes/MAC 08/private/var/tmp/mntb
|12:16:04 PM|Info| Ignoring /Volumes/MAC 08/private/var/vm
|12:18:14 PM|Info| Ignoring /Volumes/MAC 08/.Trashes
|12:18:14 PM|Info| Ignoring /Volumes/MAC 08/.vol
|12:24:06 PM|Info| Ignoring /Volumes/MAC 08/mach
|12:24:06 PM|Info| Ignoring /Volumes/MAC 08/Desktop DB
|12:24:06 PM|Info| Ignoring /Volumes/MAC 08/Desktop DF
|12:24:06 PM|Info| Scanned 18338 items occupying 2.98 GB (1554 directories, 16692 files, 92 symlinks)
|12:24:06 PM|Info| Copied 18324 items totaling 2.97 GB (1545 directories, 16688 files, 91 symlinks)
|12:24:06 PM|Info| Cloned 2.97 GB of data in 516 seconds at an effective transfer rate of 5.90 MB/s
|12:24:06 PM|Info| PHASE: Conclude Target Setup
|12:24:06 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Finalizing "G4-MAC08.dmg" session
|12:24:06 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Unmounting /Users/Shared/G4-MAC08.dmg from /tmp/SVUmount
|12:24:07 PM|Info| "disk2" failed to unmount (0x0000C001)
|12:24:07 PM|Error| rmdir: /tmp/SVUmount: Device busy
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