Shirt Pocket Discussions  
    Home netTunes launchTunes SuperDuper! Buy Now Support Discussions About Shirt Pocket    

Go Back   Shirt Pocket Discussions > SuperDuper! > General

 
 
Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #1  
Old 10-02-2006, 02:50 AM
denke denke is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Posts: 17
Thumbs up SD is working great!

It's been over two months since I last logged in here. That's because SD is working just great. It took a few days to get the Growl notification working just the way I want, but everything has been going like clockwork since then.

I bought a license for myself, which I use on my desktop and laptop. Once that was working, I got another license for my wife's desktop. Each desktop boots from a "sandbox" on its own (big) external Firewire drive. System updates are installed on the sandbox and tested there until I'm confident that everything is working okay. Then I install it on the actual internal drive of the desktop. No worries about system updates! What a relief!

Each desktop automatically does a Smart Update daily, alternating between two other partitions on its external FW drive. The backups happen in the wee hours, when we're usually both asleep. Growl puts up a little green notice when the copy is successful, which we see when we first wake up the computers for the day. I have instructed Growl to put up a little red notice if the copy is ever unsuccessful, but it's always succeeded so far.

With the iBook, I do manual backups. (Only when we're traveling does it actually get any new data of its own.)

This is a big improvement over Retrospect Desktop, which I was using before. It was always having problems of one sort or another. Once I'd get Retrospect working again, I was afraid to make any change for fear of breaking it. But SD is so clear, understandable, and predictable, that I have no such qualms. And SD makes non-propietary backups, which is far more reassuring than one big file in a proprietary format that cannot even be read without the application.

In summary, everything works great, just the way I want. I cannot recommend SD too highly.

Thanks, Dave (and Bruce)!
Reply With Quote
 


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Scheduled backup stopped working picaman General 3 02-08-2006 09:02 AM
not working briantully General 1 12-23-2005 09:24 AM
Scheduling not working? kbradnam General 10 12-01-2005 04:05 PM
What A Great Product! RE Metz General 1 07-19-2005 12:58 PM
NetTunes controls not working Steven General 5 12-07-2003 03:05 PM


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 01:22 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.9
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.