[mcthomas]

Thanks for the quick reply. Am already an advocate of Super Duper based on the reviews, this forum quality and the user's manual. Look forward to the next step of actual use.

So are you saying that if my current HD use is about 15 gig and not expected to exceed say 25 gig that the bootable clone partition can be set for 25gig + say 10%?

Also would you please clarify the comment about not mixing data with backup.

My plan is to isolate the bootable clone from the safety clone (two partitions) the Mac maintenance SW, eg. Tech Tool and Disk Warrior together in a different partition and a full Home Directory backup into a still different partition; plan to use Sync (can schedule) at least until SD 2 comes out. Is this what you meant?

Thanks

Mcthomas