My have to change my vote: It is advertized that booting into root isn't required for backing up a bootable volume, but when using the "run as root" command, SP still missed a couple files (such as .ds, as I recall). Perhaps I did something wrong? An easy solution was to use Rooter by MacMagna, which allows any application dragged upon it to be run with root privlidges ... seems to work very well. Since I gave it a 5*, and I want it to have a 4*, I'll give it a 3* here.