you're booted to a clone!
SuperDuper is wonderful, and I use it regularly for backups. I am troubled, however, by the fact that when I'm booted to my clone, there is nothing on my Desktop that indicates that.
Case in point. Let's suppose there is a power failure, and my internal drive craps out. When the power returns, my Mac automatically boots to my clone and, for all intents and purposes, things look exactly the same. If my internal drive craps out, I want to know that asap! But the only way I can know that is by going to "About this Mac" and seeing which startup disk is listed there. I would not ordinarily do that. This is perhaps more a system issue than a SuperDuper issue, but I'm wondering if there is some strategy that lets the user know that their internal drive has crapped out, and one is booted to a clone. |
It certainly says what you're booted from in "About This Mac", but we intentionally do not change your drive to do something different on the copy. It wouldn't be much of a copy if it wasn't a...copy.
You could, of course, do things in an "On Successful Completion" shell script to mark the copy in some way. But it's definitely something I don't do. |
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The "On Successful Completion" is just about what happens when you MAKE the clone. Not when you boot from it. That's exactly right that a clone is precisely that. It's whole purpose in life is to make a boot that looks exactly like your original boot. So that's why this is more a system issue than a SuperDuper issue. SuperDuper is doing exactly what it's supposed to do. But it would be nice if the system made it more prominent which disk/partition you were booting from. I guess my question was whether there was such an option to make it conspicuous. |
Yes, I know that's going to happen when you make the copy. What I'm saying is you could use a shell script there to set something on the backup that would tell you you're on the copy.
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I use an AppleScript script at startup to do some things, including not loading Dropbox if booted from a clone. Something like that could be used to indicate the boot drive is a clone.
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Of course, I realize that if I come back to my computer, and am presented with a login screen (I don't usually log out), it means there was a reboot, and I'd be smart to check "About This Mac" to see who I booted from! |
Well, you could potentially replace your desktop image. You could copy a file to your desktop. Something like that. "How this would work" is kind of up to you, Dan. I'm trying to give you a mechanism you can use to achieve your goal...
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Of course, if the internal disk dies while I'm logged in, without a power-failure reboot, it will end up being a manual decision to restart and boot to a clone. |
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