Ever-Growing Sparse Image File...

[Marco_Polo]

'Problem is, it takes hours and hours (and hours) to shrink the sparse image that way.

And I'd have to automate it to run pretty often.

And doing that on top of doing the nightly backup would mean that my machine would be busy with the backup and compacting of the image well into daylight work hours.

It would probably take less time to erase the current backup and start from scratch every night.

Is there any easy way to work the alternative? To back up to a regular disk image every night? SuperDuper refuses to mount the disk image when I try this -- it creates a new sparse image rather than cloning to a .dmg file.

I suppose that I could have it run a bit of AppleScript to mount the disk image first... is that the best way to get it to make a scheduled clone to a regular disk image?