SuperDuper!

Licence: Shareware (27.95USD)
Version 2.6.2 | Release Date: 2009-10-13 | Download
  • Significant copy speed improvements
  • Preserves compression when copying
  • Fixed extra copying under Snow Leopard
  • Scheduled copies in old format are now disabled and we prompt the user to recreate
  • Scheduled copies work on Japanese systems and with more Unicode/composed character drive names
  • Backup-on-mount should work on 10.4.11
  • Adjusted SDUtil path to improve robustness when application is moved (now symlinked/refreshed)
  • Minor copy tweaks
  • Reworked SL status to use 1000B = 1MB, 1024B = MiB for Leopard and earlier.
  • Fixed crontab escaping if user has tcsh as their default shell
  • Fixed issues with explicit Spotlight disable/enable under 10.5+
Version 2.6 | Release Date: 2009-08-28 | Download
  • Full Snow Leopard support
  • "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
Of course, the new SuperDuper 2.6 still improves on the acclaimed original in many ways, including:
  • The ability to easily schedule backups
  • Additional imaging options
  • More control over shutdown
  • Better AppleScript support
  • Can store a bootable backup side-by-side with a Time Machine backup on a single volume
  • Can copy Time Machine backup volumes to other drive when you need more space (or want to back up your archived data)
  • "Run Now" button for scheduled copies
  • Automatic preservation of any custom icon on the destination volume
  • Hundreds of UI improvements
  • Growl support
  • And a thorough, easy to read, task-based User's Guide.
Version 2.5 | Release Date: 2008-02-05 | Download
  • Full Leopard support
  • Can store a bootable backup side-by-side with a Time Machine backup on a single volume
  • Can copy Time Machine backup volumes to other drive when you need more space (or want to back up your archived data)
  • "Run Now" button for scheduled copies
  • Automatic preservation of any custom icon on the destination volume
  • Improved Spotlight handling
  • Performance and other improvements

Of course, the new SuperDuper 2.5 still improves on the acclaimed original in many ways, including:

  • The ability to easily schedule backups
  • Additional imaging options
  • More control over shutdown
  • Better AppleScript support
  • Hundreds of UI improvements
  • Growl support
  • And a completely rewritten, task-based User's Guide.
Version 2.1.4 | Release Date: 2007-02-27 | Download
  • Allows display to sleep during copy
  • Scheduled copies work for Japanese locale/language settings
  • Preliminary compatibility support for Leopard
  • Improved scheduling for all users
  • Addressed various other minor issues
Version 2.1.3 | Release Date: 2006-07-13 | Download
  • Can disable ACL copying in Advanced options
  • The What's going to happen? section now says when the destination is an image
  • No longer allows erroneous restarting/startup from an image
  • Scheduling now works with multi-byte characters in volume names
  • Scheduling now works under 10.3.x for Japanese language users
  • Addressed various other minor issues

Of course, the new SuperDuper 2.1.3 still improves on the acclaimed original in many ways, including:

  • The ability to easily schedule backups
  • Additional imaging options
  • More control over shutdown
  • Better AppleScript support
  • Hundreds of UI improvements
  • Growl support

And a completely rewritten, task-based User's Guide.

Version 2.1.2 | Release Date: 2006-06-13 | Download
  • Growl support for manual and scheduled copies. (Existing scheduled copies must be deleted and re-created to get notifications.)
  • The copy mode (e.g. Smart Update) is now displayed in the status view
  • Corrected directory "cycle" recovery
  • Improved ACL copy error handling
  • Fixed crash caused by invalid Scripting Additions or Components