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So far so good, and not even a need to go to tech support. That's always a good sign.

My harddisk crashed! Superduper saved my life research when I realised I had backed up a week earlier. I just restored it. Simple.

The sparse backups are great. Just updating the backup once a week only takes 15 minutes maximum and it seems happy running the background while I continue to work. Worth purchasing.

I have been using SD for about 2 years. I trust completely this robust and high sophisticated app which never betrayed me. Easy to set up and easy to use. Just schedule the copies (carbon or dedicated ones), turn the external hard drive on and relax. I do recommend warmly.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Warning, if you are considering using this application, beware of two things:

1) There is a list of caveats that the support folks suggest to follow, but you don't see until you go looking for them in the right places. In other words, if you just go ahead and clone following the basic directions, and then discover you have a problem, and then search for answers, you will be "treated" to a list of things you should have known you should have known before doing anything so stupid as to try to use Carbon Copy Clone.

2) In the support forums, if you ask any stupid questions, or have other problems that display your ignorance, you will be treated to the tag-team of "Andreas" and "Baltwo" who seem to think treating dumb users by expressing and displaying the mentality of a pair of WWE (used to be WWF) performers, including encouraging the same rude behavior from the audience, is the best way to deal with some users. Real "Pros" they are; kinda sorta like those other "Pros".

Consider SuperDuper.

Very handy, became indispensible when my Powerbook HD started to die. I had a carbon copy on my Firewire drive, and was able to boot right backup and get back to work.

I used this product for about two years with great success. Then, when Bombich failed to keep CCC updated with Leopard, I switched to SuperDuper, which is what I use now. CCC is a great product, and it appears to be tested now with Leopard, but I've had great success with SuperDuper and will be sticking with it for the foreseeable future.

I used to suggest this app to everyone who'd listen, I even gave them money :)

Sadly with Leopard it has ceased working, giving be a not too helpful error -51. A visit to the forums was of little help, suggesting I erase my backup and clone again . . which then left me without a backup at all :/ And I'd mirror the impression that dancingbrook said about Andreas's help.

Great app supported by great people.

Powerful. Stable. Better than MSProject. Missing a few useful features such as publish as web page (which is on the roadmap). Bottom line the best project management software I have used and I live by this stuff.

A Must-have, very well done app, supported by an excellent team.

A Must-have!!!

the most time-efficient function is cmd-Q.
nice gui, a lot of functions, better than ms project and i'm using it. but not recommend for non-projectmanagers.