Shirt Pocket Discussions - Backup, upgrade, then reverse backup

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Originally Posted by seatom

hi brich,

if i run DW from the external HD, should i run it from the clone that SuperDuper created of my internal HD, or, should i install DW on a separate partition of the external HD and run it from that? also, if i run DW after a smart backup, why do you reboot from the external?

thanks,

tom robisonn

Tom, I have DiskWarrior installed on my internal Panther drive. When I clone the internal to external FW, I then boot up from the external clone to make sure everything seems ok (even after an incremental Smart backup, I reboot from the clone to ensure it works ok). Occasionally when I do this, I go ahead and launch DW from the clone and graph/optimize the internal drive...this works more quickly for me than booting from the DW cd (which I find to be slower). If I ever decide to wipe the internal drive and copy the clone system to internal, I find that the newly cloned internal drive is 18-20% unoptimized (per DW graphing). I have found SuperDuper! to be reliable enough to work hand in hand with DiskWarrior, and my system just hums