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DESCRIPTION
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.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.6.2:
- Faster than ever - up to 2x on 10.5/10.6
- Full Snow Leopard support, including compressed files
- "Backup on connect" - optional backup when a drive is attached
- Backup drive can be ejected at end of copy
- Support for Sparse Bundle image type
- PGP Whole Disk Encryption support for source and destination
- Performance and many other improvements
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4-10.6 or later.
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| Developer: | Shirt Pocket |
| Downloads: | 175,633 |
| - Version d/l: | 6,805 |
| Utilities: | System |
| License: | Shareware |
| Date: | 13 Oct 2009 |
| Platform: | PPC/Intel |
| Price: | $27.95 |
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| SuperDuper! User Reviews (139 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 28 2009 |
PAUL.SEIFER This morning my OS hard drive died. It seemed to be running fine until a restart. After a couple troubleshooting techniques failed, I decided to try booting with my OS back up [made with SuperDuper]. The start up went fine and I was then able to use two different disc utilities to confirm the worst case: drive failure [well, its better than logic board failure
]. I purchased and installed a replacement drive; booted from my OS clone; formatted the new drive; launched SuperDuper and copied the data onto it. I rebooted on completion and was up and running. [NOTE: Selecting "Restart from..." under 'On successful completion' in the General Options pane allows you to walk away and return to the newly copied OS up and running]. The entire process would theoretically have taken less than an hour if I had a spare [internal] drive handy. How's that for minimizing downtime? Look, THINGS HAPPEN & HARDWARE FAILS; often without warning. MY ADVICE: GET SUPERDUPER, A PORTABLE HARD DRIVE [I prefer OWC's Mercury On-The-Go 2.5" drives], AND GIVE YOURSELF A SAFETY NET FOR A RAINY DAY. If you rely on your Mac for important endeavors, it makes no sense not to have a [current] bootable OS clone. All app updates are free and the support is superb as well. SuperDuper is well worth the $27.95 price tag, especially when you consider the value of your time.
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 | Oct 15 2009 |
DR. GIRLFRIEND SuperDuper is the most reliable, consistently updated and easiest to configure backup solution on any platform (imho). I started using it in Tiger and found it indispensable. To this day, I still use it in Snow Leopard and it hasn't failed me once. I have a MacPro and run multiple O/S versions on several different internal harddrives. I use SuperDuper to clone these drives and keep them up to date. SD works beautifully every single time -- right down to the last file opened and read in my email or the last song rated in iTunes. When Snow Leopard came out, I upgraded right away, knowing that SuperDuper had my back (and my backup of Leopard!) safe on another drive. I did the same during the Tiger/Leopard upgrade and can't tell you how freeing and wonderful it was to be able to go back to the older, more stable O/S with all of my apps and settings intact, while the bugs were being worked out on the new one. I've given up using TimeMachine and other backup schemes in favor of scheduled SuperDuper backups and my life has never been easier. When one of my internal HDDs died a while ago, I just switched to my SuperDuper clone and kept right on working. I only lost less than an hour of work (the time between my scheduled backups) rather than the contents of an entire harddrive. How cool is that? Like 1Password, I now can't live without it and only wish it was available for other operating systems. 5 unqualified gold stars!
(Version 2.6.2) | |
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| Oct 14 2009 |
DONMONTALVO This is really good stuff. CCC is great too (I didn't hesitate to donate to Mike Bombich so he keeps updating it). But I keep finding myself coming back to SuperDuper! Don Montalvo
(Version 2.6.2) | |
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| Oct 14 2009 |
ITTY The best keeps getting better. I first bought this while waiting for Retrospect to get ''fixed''. Since then, I've dumped Retrospect (after using it and it's progenitors for over 20 years) and now use SuperDuper along with Toast (and it's disk spanning ability) to effectively replace Retrospect altogether. Runs great under Snow Leopard, and I especially like the new Backup on Connect feature. But most importantly, unlike Retrospect, SuperDuper is very stable, reliable and consistent.
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| Oct 14 2009 |
RRNOWELL I have been using SuperDuper! for a while now and appreciate the support I have received and the promptness of updates.I wish I could give a more specific review, but for me it just works and ultimately that is what I want as a user.
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| Oct 13 2009 |
RONL This is worth repeating... For many years I had used Retrospect. But then metadata was not being properly duped and after having to actually use a backup because of a major problem... modification and creation dates, etc. were listed as the day I had to do the backup. I am talking about thousands of files and folders that I could no longer search via dates! So when it came time to upgrade Retrospect I started searched for other backup software that would be more reliable. I came across this URL comparing various backup software (if you do not read the entire article, since it is very detailed, at least read the conclusion... "The only laudable exception is the great SuperDuper application, which performs flawlessly.") http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/mac-backup-software-harmful/ Using SuperDuper! has been great and the price is incredible. The only 'advantage' that I had 'enjoyed' with Retrospect was its rather simple way of coping only specific folders/files by checking boxes... but that was not nearly enough to continue using it and losing so much of important meta data which was necessary for searches, etc. AND SuperDuper! can do something similar though it takes a couple more steps. I highly recommend it... and their tech support actually gets back to you very quickly when you have a question (unlike Dantz).
(Version 2.6.2) | |
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| Oct 14 2009 |
COMMERCIAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT My primary difficulty with Retrospect was that they compressed the data in a proprietary format and the overall process seemed a bit awkward overall to me. I followed the blog linked by the prior reviewer and zeroed in on Carbon Copy Cloner as I am presently using this. That writer said "doesn't preserve . . . creation date, HFS+ extended attributes," "not recommended" Then I checked the Bombich software site FAQ and they state under the question "CCC requires an HFS+ formatted target volume": "The HFS+ filesystem defines many types of metadata that describe non-data attributes of your files. Creation date, access control lists, permissions and ownership, Finder flags, and extended attributes are among the various metadata types defined in the HFS+ standard. To adequately back up all of your files and their associated metadata, CCC requires that your backup volume is also formatted as HFS+." I back up daily to an OWC supplied Firewire 800 external drive, and weekly to the same drive offsite, plus using Time Capsule for protection of business data. This morning I booted up my MacBook Pro from the external drive using last night's backup made with Carbon Copy Cloner, checked Mail, Opened Safari, opened a cluster of database and word processing files I had updated yesterday and everything worked just fine. I only use one type of back up - incremental, deleting all differences, so I always have a duplicate startup drive. I was interested to see if Super Duper would be quicker, but the software (incremental backup) is disabled until payment is received, whereas Carbon Copy Cloner is fully functional as I believe was the original intent of shareware "try before you buy." Reviews I've read all seem to praise Super Duper, but unless I am missing something, I don't see the benefit to paying more for the same functionality.
(Version 2.6.2) | |
| Oct 13 2009 |
SHK747 just perfect as ever !
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| Oct 13 2009 |
KOMTOM This software is a "must have"!!! Wonderful...
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| Oct 13 2009 |
ORION MK. V 2.6.2 upgrade continues to be a "super duper" app. Never had an issue with SD for backing up as well as making fully bootable backups and this version is no different.
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 | Oct 13 2009 |
JUNIPER I have Mac OS X Snow Leopard and version SD 2.6.2 corrupted my applications' icons, including App folder's own icon. It shows all blank, no icon at all. I switched back to the previous version of SD and relaunched Finder to fix it. On a side note, the SD icon in the .dmg had corrupted or no icon image at all.
(Version 2.6.2) | |
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| Oct 13 2009 |
PENNYHEAD1 Didn't happen to me.
(Version 2.6.2) | |
 | Oct 13 2009 |
DNANIAN It sounds to me like you were actually having icon cache problems in general, since things were wrong before you even ran SuperDuper!. Try restarting your Mac, then use 2.6.2 again... and if you have trouble, drop me a note to the support email. It's a lot easier for me to help when I don't have to look for you!
(Version 2.6.2) | |
| Oct 13 2009 |
PENNYHEAD1 I have not updated in a long time (since Snow Leopard came out) and quite a bit had of info had to be backed up. What the developer said "Faster than ever - up to 2x on 10.5/10.6" is true!!! 322,628 files had to be updated out of 644,019 and SuprDuper! 2.6.2 did it in no time. Wish I had timed it but it was fast anyway. I love this app (not such a big fan of Time Machine, too many files!!!).
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