SD plus Time Machine - Restoring?

[rh26]

Originally Posted by dnanian

If you don't have a recent SuperDuper! backup (which I think you should have), you can restore from your Time Machine backup.

By definition, I won't have a recent SD backup. Even if it runs every night, a hard drive failure at 5PM means the SD backup is not complete. The TM backup is nearly so.

Originally Posted by dnanian

If you have a recent SuperDuper! backup, you can restore than and then, if there is something you were working on that you need back, restore that file (or two) from the Time Machine archive.

If I do have a crash, by the time I get a new drive, suffer stress, etc. there is a good chance I won't remember all I was working on.

So why can't SuperDuper! have some kind of Smart Restore feature? I would install the new virgin hard drive. Boot from the SD clone FW drive. Turn on and mount the Time Machine Drive (or in the case of the TM backup on the same partition then skip that step). Run Smart Restore which clones the SD backup onto the new/clean iMac drive, *THEN* goes to the Time Machine backup, finds the most recent completed TM backup in the folder structure and then copies over everything that is newer (and optionally deletes things to make them identical). It's the same logic as a Smart Update isn't it?

Don't get me wrong. I love SuperDuper! I have used it for a LONG time now-- it saved me when my MacBookPro drive died. And I'm more than just a little uncertain about Time Machine. But, IMO the solution has to get better...