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SuperDuper?

Hello all,

I understand that there are probably a billion other posts concerning backup and this program. However, I have just a couple of questions I would liked confirmed.

Does SuperDuper require an external drive? If not, where does the program store your precious data?

I want the backup to be bootable, can SuperDuper achieve this?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.7), 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo, 1GB ram

Posted on Aug 2, 2006 6:00 AM

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a brody

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Posted on Aug 2, 2006 6:07 AM

Superduper yes requires some sort of volume that can store data. With its built-in scripting mechanism you can specify where you want the destination files to be. However, the only bootable type of solution which follows your needs is an external hard drive. And yes Superduper makes a bootable backup to any external hard drive that is Firewire that has that capability. Three I'm familiar with that do are http://www.macsales.com/ http://www.lacie.com/ and http://www.granitedigital.com/

Since you posted in the MacBook Pro forum, there have been some who have succeeded in making Intel Macs also bootable from external USB hard drives. Don't know which of those do support booting and not.

Mac OS X will boot on Mac OS X Server based networks, but that's a whole different story and something someone in the Mac OS X Server forum would better know how to work.

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Aug 12, 2006 11:14 AM in response to skillz1318

Hi,

If you need to restore your backups, how do you do it?

Thanks in advance,
Oleguer

ClintB

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Aug 12, 2006 3:15 PM in response to Oleguer Vilella

Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but that's where a disk image backup/restore gets tricky. You've backed up, but you'd need to have a seperate boot source in order to mount, then restore the disk image contents. Say you backed up to a disk image on Monday and on Tuesday your boot volume gets hosed somehow. Stil bootable, but something that can't be repaired (hypothetical scenario). Even if it is possible, you really wouldn't want to boot from the hosed volume, mount the disk image and restore from there. You'd want to boot from another bootable volume, mount the image and restore from SuperDuper!.

MacBook Pro 2.16 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 100GB 5400rpm, 1GB RAM

Aug 13, 2006 10:53 AM in response to ClintB

Hi,

And can you restore it using the system CD (using system utilities)?

Regards,
Oleguer

ClintB

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Aug 13, 2006 1:31 PM in response to Oleguer Vilella

I'm a new convert and thus haven't tried that scenario yet. I'm pretty sure you can restore from a disk image when booted from the restore CD/DVD and using Disk Utility. Not in front of my MBP right now, so I can't answer that definitively.

Aug 13, 2006 2:42 PM in response to ClintB

Hi,

Yeah, that's what I mean. Using the disk utility from the system CD.

I'm not sure... Can anyone give us a better answer?

Thanks!

Oleguer

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