SuperDuper!

Version: 2.5 || Release Date: 2008-02-05 || License: Shareware (27.95USD) Developer: Shirt Pocket

SuperDuper can make a full backup, or "clone" — in moments, you can completely duplicate your boot drive to another drive, partition, or image file.

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icancu, 2009-06-26

SD is not good backup software imho, backup software should never change the source disk, but it does, if power runs out in the middle of a backup your system disk will be seriously messed up, this software messed up my system and had to reinstall from scratch. Good backup software doesn't change the source disk.

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templogin, 2009-05-28

Errors were being reported from OSX and I had accidentally thrown away my OSX disks for my new Macbook Pro in a recent house move. I needed those disks to be able to repair the boot disk. Fortunately I use SuperDuper weekly and when it does a backup to my external LaCie disk it makes it bootable. I was then able to boot from the external disk to repair my Macbook Pro disk - hooray!!

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johanhwb, 2009-04-15

Last week only a single app had crashed so severely that not even a uninstall/reinstall fixed the problem! A complete rollback to a backup taken with Superduper a week earlier solved the problem. I finalized the process by updating my home folder with the Time Machine backup.

I also love that I can take my Superduper backup to another Mac and continue working where I left off. Great comfort.

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guns, 2008-06-19 (score: 1)

When Leopard came out, I tried to replace SuperDuper with Time Machine as my main backup solution. Time Machine is much faster than SuperDuper's Smart backup, but it does not work transparently; it excludes many large files that would slow it down considerably (VMWare virtual machines are an example), and furthermore, it does not support backing up to anything but a disk or network partition. I like to backup to encrypted disk images, so I went back to SuperDuper.

I suspect that a future version of SuperDuper will interface with fseventsd, like Time Machine, and that this will speed up Smart Backups by orders of magnitude. I would gladly pay for a new version when that happens.

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matt, 2008-05-17 (score: 2)

geira, SuperDuper does far more than a simple file copy. I use a Firewire WD MyBook Pro and a smart backup takes around 30 minutes, and a full backup every so often takes a few of hours.

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geira, 2008-04-27 (score: -4)

Has some nice features, but unfortunately is slow as molasses. Taking a full backup of my MacBook Pro onto a new WD USB MyBook before Leopard installation, Finder took 20 mins or so for 30 GB of audio, but in two hours Superduper only managed 6GB of my home dir. I then gave up and used tar. Now Time Machine is zipping along in the background, having copied 9 GB in about 10 mins. Prior backups to Firewire disks have also taken the better part of a day, so this is definitely a sub-performer.

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saktomo, 2008-03-25

Great product and superior support.
It wasn't working in the morning and I sent in an error report. When I got home that same night I had a complete solution to the problem.
The support in itself is worth the price.

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dnanian, 2008-02-12

Please don't download from the link, below -- use the standard download link. Connectivity problems have been fixed.

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rampancy, 2008-02-05

Leopard-compatible version 2.5 is now up - sadly, Shirt Pocket's site seems to be down.

This mirror, which I got from MacUpdate, might be helpful:

http://homepage.mac.com/bruce_lacey/.Public/SuperDuper!.dmg

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calvinfurano, 2008-01-30

If you're looking for a backup solution, stop looking. SuperDuper! does the job.

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