Digital Photographer's Software Guide - Bertemes - Net

Comments
If all you want is simple backup, this product could meet your needs. It will not back
up over a network, but you can schedule days or times for backup of your hard disk
(which the vendor expects will be a LaCie hard disk) with full automation. At the time
of writing it is not intended for use with Macintosh Leopard (OS X 10.5.x), which has
its own Time Machine backup. Says the vendor: “A fix is being investigated.”
Version: Silverkeeper 1.1.4 (2008)
OS: Mac OS 9.2.2 or later and OS X 10.2.8 (not 10.5.x)
RAM: 256MB
Supported file formats: N/A
Price level: Free
Address: LaCie S.A.S, 17, rue Ampère, 91349 Massy Cedex, France
www.lacie.com
SuperDuper!
Vendor: ShirtPocket
Purpose: Creates a perfect copy of your hard drive on an external drive
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Description
SuperDuper! creates a perfect copy of your hard drive on an external drive, providing
the facility to reboot immediately from the external disk. Shareware, it runs on both
Intel and Power PC Macs, takes around 10 minutes to back up 50GB data, and performs
updates even when another backup application has carried out the initial cloning
operation. It uses the “exclude” model of backing up and is a very useful alternative to
Apple’s Backup utility.
Comments
David Nanian’s SuperDuper! is highly regarded by users who find that it faithfully preserves
their files, including metadata. It requires no special expertise to install or operate.
However, it is not designed to back up to CDs, DVDs, or tape, but rather to an
external FireWire drive. You need to check that this external drive will actually boot the
computer, as some FireWire drives will not.
SuperDuper! works well alongside Time Machine in Leopard, allowing to you store a
bootable backup next to the Time Machine volume. Why would you need both? All the
answers, or at least a good argument for being doubly careful, can be found in the vendor’s
60-page user’s guide. A free trial is available.
Version: SuperDuper! 2.5 (2008)
OS: Mac OS X 10.4 or later