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SuperDuper!

SuperDuper! - 2.5

backup, clone, restore & more

All Time: (4.8)
This Version: (4.8)
Current Version: 2.5
Release Date: 2008-02-05
License: Shareware
Downloads (this version): 23,500
Downloads (all versions): 282,086
Price: $27.95

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Product Description:

Carbon copies. And a whole lot more.
The 2005 and 2006 Eddy Award winning SuperDuper is the most advanced, yet easy to use disk copying program available for OS X. It can, of course, make a straight copy, or "clone" -- useful when you want to move all your data from one machine to another, or do a simple backup. In moments, you can completely duplicate your boot drive to another drive, partition, or image file.

Clones, though, don't work very well when it's time to recover from an unexpected system disaster - like a bad driver or OS update. Unless you take specific steps, restoring a drive image restores everything on the drive, overwriting both the system and user files. If that's what you want to do, great. But it's usually not, since all the work you've done since the backup would be lost!

Clones for safety.
To ensure you can safely roll back a system after the unexpected occurs, SuperDuper doesn't stop there.

With a few clicks, you can easily "checkpoint" your system, preserving your computer's critical applications and files while you run on a working, bootable copy. If anything goes wrong, just reboot to the original. When you do, your current Documents, Music, Pictures -- even iSync data -- are available! You can get back to work immediately!

Clones for industry!
SuperDuper has enough features to satisfy the advanced user, too. Its simple-but-powerful Copy Script feature allows complete control of exactly what files get copied, ignored, even aliased ("soft linked" for the Unix inclined) from one drive to another!

SuperDuper is perfect for software developers, software "seed" sites, QA testers, even system administrators.

What's new in this version:

  • 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.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Does not support optical or tape drives.

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This Version:
Overall Rating: (4.8) Features: (4.7) Support: (4.8)
Ease of Use: (4.9) Quality / Stability: (4.8) Price: (5.0)
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SuperDuper! Troubleshooting ReportSuperduper disables DNS - Version: 2.5, 5/8/2008 10:51PM PST

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Sven Knutsen
I appear to have discovered a problem when running Superduper 2.5 on a Mac Mini Intel on 10.5.2 and EIMS 3.3.7 - Every time SD runs it appears to disable the computers DNS making the computer inaccessible to the network and the internet - A most undesirable situation for a Mailserver....
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SuperDuper! CommentaryWhy would anyone use this? - Version: 2.5, 3/18/2008 05:22AM PST

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Ray Singh
I'm confused on why someone would use this instead of Apple's own Time Machine...which is also free.

In the past it made sense, now, with Leopard, even if it was free, I don't see the benefit, especially from a third party developer.
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SuperDuper! Troubleshooting ReportIt simply doesn't work - Version: 2.5, 2/23/2008 10:29PM PST

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ma011
I've used SuperDuper! for years and it worked very well. Under Leopard, at the end of the backup (option copy all files) the Mac can't restart from the backup drive which is silently ignored. When I use the system preference to try to boot from the backup drive, the problem remains. I've tried to make a backup of Leopard on two different firewire devices (LaCie) and the backups failed.

The technical support of SuperDuper! answer that it is a hardware problem ! So, why does the backup of MacOS 10.4 made with the version 2.1.4 of SuperDuper! work fine ?
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