Problem copying time machine backup

[rich]

I ended up buying SuperDuper and using Smart Update which worked perfectly.

It's very frustrating when a long running task, such a backup, fails after several hours. So I would like to suggest an improvement to prevent other customers from being bitten by this type of failure. When SuperDuper is copying a time machine archive it should check that the destination volume will be HFS+ journalled at the start of the copy and if it is not then either:

1) Fail early. So that the failure takes seconds not hours
2) Enable journalling on the destination volume. This could be automatic, a preference setting, or after a prompt.

Another thing that would have helped is if SuperDuper recognised that I had manually enabled journalling via Disk Utility part way through the backup. Rather than insisting that journalling was off when it was actually on.

Anyway, just some ideas.

Thanks,

- Richard