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Forum: General 02-15-2024, 10:29 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 21,069
Posted By Dan Lester
Well, it is a little funny that my scheduled...

Well, it is a little funny that my scheduled backups were working for a year, and then quite suddenly, when I upgraded the OS, they stopped happening. Under scheduled copies, SuperDuper accurately...
Forum: General 02-15-2024, 07:56 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 21,069
Posted By Dan Lester
I thought I'd add this to an old query. I have a...

I thought I'd add this to an old query. I have a couple of daily scheduled backups. It seems they've been failing to run for a couple of days. Turns out that happened when I upgraded from Monterey to...
Forum: General 01-22-2024, 10:31 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,508
Posted By Dan Lester
True, but that's the machine we're talking about...

True, but that's the machine we're talking about here. MBP late 2011. But I agree that Apple doesn't seem to do such updates for contemporary machines.
Forum: General 01-22-2024, 08:33 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,508
Posted By Dan Lester
Well, but there is this ... ...

Well, but there is this ...

https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1499?locale=en_US
Forum: General 01-21-2024, 10:26 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,508
Posted By Dan Lester
Thanks. That's because the Boot Manager is in...

Thanks. That's because the Boot Manager is in BIOS/EFI? The EFI partition loads the boot device drivers. I guess that's not part of the OS because you need it to start up the OS. Maybe all I needed...
Forum: General 01-20-2024, 10:01 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,508
Posted By Dan Lester
fixed!

OK, let me wrap things up here. Dave and I did some discussion offline, but he finally suggested just dumping my High Sierra and reloading it. That took some effort as the Apple instructions for...
Forum: General 01-20-2024, 10:24 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,508
Posted By Dan Lester
OK, that makes sense. Now, because I couldn't do...

OK, that makes sense. Now, because I couldn't do the backup with APFS, I was assuming that High Sierra couldn't manage APFS. It can! I reformatted the backup disk to APFS with the High Sierra machine...
Forum: General 01-18-2024, 08:42 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,508
Posted By Dan Lester
That makes sense but, as I recall, when I plugged...

That makes sense but, as I recall, when I plugged that APFS SSD in to my High Sierra 2011 Mac, an icon DID appear on the screen. That's why I assumed I could back up to it. And when I commanded...
Forum: General 01-17-2024, 11:55 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,508
Posted By Dan Lester
Sorry, not being clear here. If you connect an...

Sorry, not being clear here. If you connect an APFS disk to an OS that does not know how to communicate with APFS, SuperDuper will STILL try to copy, and takes time grinding away seeming to do it....
Forum: General 01-17-2024, 10:15 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,508
Posted By Dan Lester
Thanks. Not a big deal, but if the OS DOESN'T...

Thanks. Not a big deal, but if the OS DOESN'T support APFS, it strikes me as a little funny that SuperDuper blasts ahead with trying to copy to a non-APFS disk. That is, you only find out half an...
Forum: General 01-15-2024, 08:32 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,508
Posted By Dan Lester
backup disk formatting

Just an FYI, not sure if it's been talked about before. I was trying to create a bootable backup for an old machine, for which the internal disk was formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled). The backup...
Forum: General 08-15-2023, 08:27 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 6,587
Posted By Dan Lester
OK, sigh, it all works now. My mouse was...

OK, sigh, it all works now. My mouse was connected to my powered USB hub, and on Power Boot it froze. When the mouse cursor froze, all the boot options didn't come up. I have rearranged so now I have...
Forum: General 08-15-2023, 08:14 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 6,587
Posted By Dan Lester
bootable backups not showing on power boot

I have a second backup disk that I just installed on my machine (M1 2021 iMac Monterey) (thanks to Dave for helping me get through an issue with an odd USB hub arrangement the disk was connected to)....
Forum: General 06-19-2023, 06:49 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 10,392
Posted By Dan Lester
Especially strange, because I give the name to my...

Especially strange, because I give the name to my backup disk. SuperDuper doesn't. That is, the name of the disk is NOT part of the backup. So by renaming the backup disk, you really aren't modifying...
Forum: General 06-19-2023, 11:35 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 10,392
Posted By Dan Lester
Interesting, but when I try to do diskutil...

Interesting, but when I try to do
diskutil rename "daily backup" "daily backup2"
I get "Failed to rename volume: Read-only file system (49182)".

If I do it as Superuser, I am still denied....
Forum: General 06-19-2023, 10:21 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 10,392
Posted By Dan Lester
renaming bootable backups - an observation

Just a comment. I've been surprised that I can't change the names of my bootable backups. That is, when you pull up the bootable backup volume, you click on the icon, and then on the title, the title...
Forum: General 06-16-2023, 11:51 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 5,123
Posted By Dan Lester
backup time stamp?

Simple question. Does the SuperDuper backup provide anywhere any info about WHEN the backup was done? That is, when I boot from a backup, I'm wondering WHEN this backup was made. Am I looking at...
Forum: General 05-15-2023, 04:29 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 3,955
Posted By Dan Lester
Thanks. Logs sent. So you're saying that the very...

Thanks. Logs sent. So you're saying that the very uneven progress rate is not unexpected, and it's really the fault of the Apple OS? In the past, when I've watched a SD backup, I don't remember the...
Forum: General 05-15-2023, 12:03 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 3,955
Posted By Dan Lester
copy failure

I'm doing a backup to a new Crucial 500GB SATA SSD. The progress of the copy-after-erase backup is confusing. With a 160GB total, "Replicating System Volume" starts out increasing fast, but then...
Forum: General 04-23-2023, 10:24 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 7,718
Posted By Dan Lester
Oh my, so it is. Thank you. Never noticed that. I...

Oh my, so it is. Thank you. Never noticed that. I guess I have to wonder why that is an option. Why wouldn't you always want to know if disks are missing?
Forum: General 04-23-2023, 04:37 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 7,718
Posted By Dan Lester
How do you set SuperDuper up to notify when...

How do you set SuperDuper up to notify when drives are missing? I've never noticed that option.
Forum: General 04-23-2023, 04:05 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 7,718
Posted By Dan Lester
OK. I figured it out. Geez Louise. Many days ago...

OK. I figured it out. Geez Louise. Many days ago I had to rebuild my system, and my internal hard drive is normally named "Shadowfax". After a few days I noticed that it actually somehow got named...
Forum: General 04-22-2023, 05:48 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 7,718
Posted By Dan Lester
OK, I did some more testing, and it's pretty...

OK, I did some more testing, and it's pretty weird. It is NOT an issue of scheduled back-to-back backups not working. It's an issue of ONE scheduled backup not working. My two backups are (1) to a...
Forum: General 04-22-2023, 09:11 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 7,718
Posted By Dan Lester
Unfortunately, the back-to-back backups didn't...

Unfortunately, the back-to-back backups didn't work. I scheduled a backup to disk #1 at 8:00am, and to disk #2 at 8:01am. The first backup went normally (and ended at 8:03am), but the second one...
Forum: General 04-21-2023, 08:28 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 7,718
Posted By Dan Lester
I was going to ask that, about just scheduling...

I was going to ask that, about just scheduling them back-to-back. That is, if I scheduled one for 2:00am, and the second for 2:01am, even though the first one didn't finish until 2:05am, the second...
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