Forum: General
09-02-2023, 12:11 PM
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Forum: General
08-13-2023, 11:59 PM
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Copy Script Stopped Working
I keep all my Dropbox files locally stored. I set up a special script to clone only that folder that has the local Dropbox files. It has worked many times in the past, creating a clone of that one...
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Forum: General
07-03-2023, 11:41 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 6,079
Understood. And makes sense for those who...
Understood. And makes sense for those who physically store those files in the cloud and not on their local machine. I keep everything in the Dropbox folder on the local machine (mirrored in the...
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Forum: General
06-30-2023, 03:02 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 6,079
Dropbox files locally stored
I use Dropbox and have elected to also have all my Dropbox files stored locally, e.g. physically present on the computer main drive, in addition to be in the cloud. (Dropbox offers options to store...
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Forum: General
01-15-2023, 09:36 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 31,978
Just a random editorial comment -- putting a...
Just a random editorial comment -- putting a clone and a Time Machine backup on the same physical drive is not a resilient backup strategy. If a power surge takes out both your Mac and the physical...
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Forum: General
11-23-2022, 11:38 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,791
I have an expression: "a watched backup never...
I have an expression: "a watched backup never seems to complete"
Seriously though, best to let things go sometimes and complete on their own time table, not yours.
With SuperDuper, I have found...
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Forum: General
12-21-2021, 10:23 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 14,729
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Forum: General
12-19-2021, 11:26 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 14,729
P.S. I should add that after ejecting the clone...
P.S. I should add that after ejecting the clone and remounting it, the clone appears in the sidebar with the proper name. Disk Utility also shows that the original targets (Macintosh HD and Macintosh...
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Forum: General
12-19-2021, 09:44 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 14,729
Using SuperDuper with Monterey
I just upgraded a 2019 Macbook Pro from Catalina to Monterey. I read the blog for instructions on clones under Monterey, which is a little different than under Catalina.
I erased the target...
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Forum: General
03-10-2021, 06:00 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 5,534
Thanks for your quick reply. I figured you knew...
Thanks for your quick reply. I figured you knew what was going on. It's not a harmful error because a later Time Machine seems to work. I'll just continue using both Time Machine and SuperDuper and...
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Forum: General
03-10-2021, 04:33 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 5,534
SD and Time Machine
I have two Time Machine disks connected at all times, they run alternating Time Machine backups. I also periodically connect a clone for SuperDuper and run it.
This is for a MacBook Pro that is on...
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Forum: General
01-02-2021, 03:16 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 7,952
Bootable external SSDs
Multiple (not dozens, but several) people are posting in Apple Discussions (example: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252177156 ) about external SSD's that they used for booting typically for...
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Forum: General
09-20-2020, 01:44 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 7,618
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Forum: General
07-26-2020, 03:17 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 6,961
HSF+ and APFS
I used to have two backup disks, one used for Time Machine, and one used for SuperDuper clones. A while ago, I started putting two partitions on each physical drive, one partition for Time Machine...
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Forum: General
07-02-2020, 12:34 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 10,810
Hi Dave, I've been using SuperDuper for many...
Hi Dave, I've been using SuperDuper for many years.
I have two types of clones right in use:
(1) Clone of an HFS+ disk with ONLY raw and jpg files -- cloned to another HFS+ disk (neither the...
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Forum: General
07-02-2020, 12:04 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 14,621
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Forum: General
12-15-2019, 12:01 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 6,074
Error messages during clone
On MacBook Air, now on 10.13.6 (High Sierra, just recently updated from Sierra), drive being backed up is internal 256GB SSD; I have two clones that I alternate between, both WD external portable...
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Forum: General
08-15-2015, 01:46 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 8,551
P.S. After checking a bit more, it seems that...
P.S. After checking a bit more, it seems that disk0s3 is the recovery disk partition (hidden). I suspect that this message does not involve SuperDuper, but it did get reported through SuperDuper's...
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Forum: General
08-15-2015, 01:31 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 8,551
"mount changed" message
I noticed a message in a few SuperDuper logs recently. It says "mount changed" for a disk, but as you can see below from the log excerpts I have included, neither the source nor target disks were the...
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Forum: General
08-15-2015, 01:17 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 8,557
Thanks, I was unaware of that App Nap feature....
Thanks, I was unaware of that App Nap feature. Before I read your reply I had completed several other SuperDuper runs and the problem had never resurfaced. Nonetheless, I turned off App Nap for the...
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Forum: General
08-13-2015, 02:35 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 8,557
Progress bar not updating
The info in the progress bar window for a SuperDuper run seems to have stopped updating, e.g. time elapsed, files evaluated, files copied, copy speed, GB evaluated, GB copied etc. I am using SD to...
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Forum: General
04-19-2014, 01:28 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 16,601
There are pros and cons to everything. The...
There are pros and cons to everything. The downside to deleting files first on the destination before the copy is that for a short time (minutes to hours) this leaves you with no viable clone of...
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Forum: General
10-14-2012, 01:28 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 17,967
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Forum: General
10-14-2012, 12:17 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 17,967
Time Machine Issue with Restored Clone
Recently, my wife's 2008 iMac (10.6.8 OS) showed "failing" S.M.A.R.T. when its internal drive was examined with Disk Utility. I had made (a) a SuperDuper clone, and (b) Time Machine backups. Also,...
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Forum: General
01-01-2011, 12:26 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 29,640
I found this older thread and it describes...
I found this older thread and it describes something I'm interested in doing -- clone (and subsequently smart update) just one or two large folders to a backup drive. The reason for doing this is...
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