Forum: General
01-13-2024, 10:39 AM
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Is schedule per-user only?
I'm getting ready to do a system update and I don't want SD to run until I'm sure everything is OK. The usual user of this system has a SD schedule; the user I log in as for upgrade stuff has none....
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Forum: General
03-05-2023, 04:45 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 6,135
Good advice! I wasn't sure what you meant by...
Good advice! I wasn't sure what you meant by "erase from the hardware", but I used Disk Utility to remove the volume (it automatically removed both parts of the linked OS backup volume, the main one...
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Forum: General
03-04-2023, 09:28 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 6,135
I'll try the erase trick. Actually, I was...
I'll try the erase trick. Actually, I was wondering whether this is yet another instance of Catalina's being somewhat half-baked (e.g., the silly removal of Mail column customization). There are two...
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Forum: General
03-04-2023, 04:04 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 6,135
OS backup duplicate names
I use SD! to make backups of my Catalina (10.15.7) OS drive; they are named "MB2OSXBkp1" and "MB2OSXBkp2". Both backups are volumes within an APFS container on an external HD. When I restart and hold...
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Forum: General
12-14-2022, 04:18 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 4,840
Permissions issue in Catalina
I have an iMac with OS newly upgraded to Catalina, 10.15.7. The internal drive started with three Journaled HFS+ partitions, MBOSX for the OS, MBUser for most user home directories, and one Extra...
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Forum: General
01-10-2022, 09:45 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 8,280
Monterey woes
I decided to update my 2017 MacBook Pro directly to Monterey from High Sierra. BIG MISTAKE! Lots of problems, decided to just restore the system disk from my backup in SuperDuper, which runs...
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Forum: General
05-28-2019, 04:12 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 8,102
Thanks, Dave! Since I've heard that Mojave is...
Thanks, Dave! Since I've heard that Mojave is somewhat buggy, and I very rarely use the require-password feature, I'll just live with the minor inconvenience until Mojave gets better. Except of...
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Forum: General
05-28-2019, 08:54 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 8,102
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Forum: General
09-25-2018, 04:24 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 9,209
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Forum: General
09-22-2018, 04:20 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 9,209
Migrating Time Machine to a new disk
My old (2009, 1 TB) external HD is showing signs of needing to be replaced. It is partitioned (GUID Partition Map) into an 800 GB APFS container with several volumes on it and a 200GB Mac OS Extended...
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Forum: General
07-29-2018, 08:24 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 10,189
I hadn't, but now that I have looked at it it...
I hadn't, but now that I have looked at it it looks promising. Thanks for the suggestion! (I gather that the answer to my original question is that no, SD! is not designed to use a cloud storage area...
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Forum: General
07-29-2018, 08:07 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 10,189
Can SD! back up to a cloud drive?
I need to make offsite backups of about 250 GB of photos (mostly it's just three High Sierra .photoslibrary files). I have tried Apple iCloud but it seems wonky and/or unreliable. Is there a cloud...
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Forum: General
07-18-2018, 07:11 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 18,269
SuperDuper and iCloud don't play nice?
Until a few days ago, SD! was working fine backing up the user drive on my wife's El Capitan machine. The drive contains two inactive PhotoLibraries (total 119 GB) and one active one (about 100 GB)...
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Forum: General
04-06-2018, 05:59 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 13,552
Dave, thanks for the advice, which I followed....
Dave, thanks for the advice, which I followed. Everything seems to be working. A couple questions/comments: If I want to create a new backup, it appears that I need to use Disk Utility to create a...
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Forum: General
04-05-2018, 11:55 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 13,552
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Forum: General
04-05-2018, 11:10 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 13,552
New Mac with APFS backing up to ext HFS+?
I split my new MacBook Pro's APFS internal SSD into three volumes (MBOSX, the system disk; MBUserData, with all user account data; and MBExtra, which is scratch I won't ever back up). These are all...
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Forum: General
03-13-2018, 01:37 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 6,165
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Forum: General
03-13-2018, 10:32 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 6,165
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Forum: General
12-13-2017, 02:50 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 8,867
What is a "snapshot"?
I was intrigued by the update notes about v3 regarding snapshots. However, there's nothing in the user manual about such things. Is there a new user manual I can download? How do I tell whether I...
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Forum: General
07-07-2017, 06:21 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 21,852
Replacing a failing multipartition internal SSD
I have a MacBookPro11,2 running 10.11.6. I am getting internal-test (S.M.A.R.T.) messages that the 500 GB SSD internal disk is wearing out. I have three partitions on it in addition to EFI and...
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Forum: General
04-17-2017, 04:18 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 21,183
Sparsebundle greyed out in SD but mountable
I wanted to restore a HD partition from a recent SD! backup sparsebundle (which is stored on a different HD partition, WD_Bkps, but is not a separate volume). In SD!, trying "Copy" from Disk Image......
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Forum: General
04-16-2017, 08:24 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 24,055
How to boot to a sparse bundle
Is there a way to boot to a sparse bundle (which is not on its own partition)? I recently migrated to El Cap, saving my previous Mavericks bootable partition to a sparse bundle. I want to back boot...
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Forum: General
08-05-2012, 06:52 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 6,075
Update requires to redo schedules -- unlock only?
The "please update me" message which came up with SD 2.6.4 this morning warns that the schedules will have to be re-done afterwards. However, after the install of 2.7, all the schedules seemed OK,...
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Forum: General
08-05-2012, 06:47 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 9,277
Auto-install of 2.7 failure message
This morning when I started SD it asked to upgrade and I clicked "OK". The built-in installer ran but the log ended with an alleged failure: the last few lines of the log are
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Forum: General
02-21-2012, 08:05 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 13,470
One thing I forgot to mention: after the...
One thing I forgot to mention: after the re"install", the first time I ran anything I got the prompt to authorize, which, per other posts, is not surprising since that bundle info would not be in the...
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