05-14-2007, 03:13 PM

I have searched and couldn't find the clarification I was looking for on a couple of questions...

I have a WD 80GB Passport External Hardrive. If I buy the full version of SuperDuper, I can make a carbon copy for my entire 80GB hard drive from my macbook onto it?

And if my computer gets stolen, lost, broken, etc...I can plug in my External Hardrive to a new macbook and hold the option key and boot from that hardrive and have the same exact computer of the one I lost?

Could I then migrate all of that to a new macbook and have a replica of my old system with very little work?

Thanks for any help.

05-14-2007, 03:34 PM

Yes, yes and yes.

1) You can actually do this without the full version - but you'll have to do a full backup each time - no "smart" backups (so it'll copy the full 80 GB each time you run it).

2 & 3) Yeah, just boot off the external drive and run Superduper again, just select the opposite drives. (external copies to the internal)

05-14-2007, 10:34 PM

Superduper rocks!!

Give it a try!

05-14-2007, 11:38 PM

I'm using Superduper, and it does rock, but I'm having problems with scheduling. My scheduled backups never run. And everything seems so simple, I can't imagine where I'm screwing up.

cheers

05-14-2007, 11:45 PM

I think carbon copy cloner does the same thing and is free, but I've only used Superduper (free)

05-15-2007, 05:53 AM

Another vote for SuperDuper here. I had come across a head to head comparison between SuperDuper!, Carbon Copy Cloner, Apple's Backup and another backup software (can't remember the name) and SuperDuper! came up on top with the least dropped files.

I use it every time there is an OS update, I backup all my files to a 500GB external: once that's done, I unplug all my peripherals (except mouse and keyboard) and then install the update.

I haven't had any problems, but if ever I did, the clone that SuperDuper! makes is bootable so it would be no problem to start from the external or revert to before- the-update state if need be.