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Forum: General 09-02-2023, 12:11 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 5,486
Posted By sdsl
Thanks, my error!

Thanks, my error!
Forum: General 08-13-2023, 11:59 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 5,486
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 07-03-2023, 11:41 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 5,114
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 06-30-2023, 03:02 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 5,114
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 01-15-2023, 09:36 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 25,590
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 11-23-2022, 11:38 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 6,327
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 12-21-2021, 10:23 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 13,492
Posted By sdsl
Thanks for the clarification. What you say makes...

Thanks for the clarification. What you say makes sense because when running SuperDuper under Catalina the sizes of the "system" and the "data" portions of the copy were shown properly.

I like the...
Forum: General 12-19-2021, 11:26 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 13,492
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 12-19-2021, 09:44 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 13,492
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 03-10-2021, 06:00 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 5,082
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 03-10-2021, 04:33 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 5,082
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 01-02-2021, 03:16 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 7,203
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 09-20-2020, 01:44 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 6,862
Posted By sdsl
One thing I have been doing is maintain at least...

One thing I have been doing is maintain at least two SuperDuper clones. I use external SSDs, the updates are very fast. I alternate between the two clones. This way I always have two working clones,...
Forum: General 07-26-2020, 03:17 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 6,413
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 07-02-2020, 12:34 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 10,221
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 07-02-2020, 12:04 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 13,789
Posted By sdsl
After staring at my own Console, especially under...

After staring at my own Console, especially under Devices which deposits scores of lines of text every second, this strikes me as much ado about nothing. I don't think you can call sdbackupbytime...
Forum: General 12-15-2019, 12:01 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 5,589
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 08-15-2015, 01:46 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 8,235
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 08-15-2015, 01:31 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 8,235
Posted By sdsl
"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...
Forum: General 08-15-2015, 01:17 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 8,119
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 08-13-2015, 02:35 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 8,119
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 04-19-2014, 01:28 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 15,910
Posted By sdsl
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...
Forum: General 10-14-2012, 01:28 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 16,682
Posted By sdsl
You're right, it would make no sense to copy that...

You're right, it would make no sense to copy that file/folder, but I just wanted to check in case I was missing something. It seems that fseventsd somehow got corrupted on the new disk and recreating...
Forum: General 10-14-2012, 12:17 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 16,682
Posted By sdsl
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,...
Forum: General 01-01-2011, 12:26 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 28,981
Posted By sdsl
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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