SuperDuper! 2.1.3 review

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Click to read our editor's review for SuperDuperSuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless.

License: Shareware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 0K
Developer: Shirt Pocket
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Price: $27.00
Updated: 24 Aug 2006
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Click to read our editor's review for SuperDuperSuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper's built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically.

SuperDuper is the most advanced, yet easy to use disk copying program available for OS X.

Clones, though, don't work very well when it's time to recover from an unexpecteddisaster. Unless you take specific steps, restoring a drive image restores everything on the drive, overwriting both the system and user files.

If that's what you want to do, great. But it's usually not, since all the work you've done since the backup would be lost!Clones for safety.To ensure you can safely roll back a system after the unexpected occurs, SuperDuper doesn't stop there.

With a few clicks, you can easily "checkpoint" your system, preserving your computer's critical applications and files while you run on a working, bootable copy. If anything goes wrong, just reboot to the original.

Its simple-but-powerful Copy Script feature allows complete control of exactly what files get copied, ignored, even aliased ("soft linked" for the Unix inclined) from one drive to another!SuperDuper is perfect for software developers, software "seed" sites, QA testers, even system administrators.

Limitations:
Some features are disabled.

What's New:
There's a little for everyone in 2.1.3 as we continue to polish and refine.
The changes we've made include:
Can disable ACL copying in Advanced options
The What's going to happen? section now says when the destination is an image
No longer allows erroneous restarting/startup from an image
Scheduling now works with multi-byte characters in volume names
Scheduling now works under 10.3.x for Japanese language users
Addressed various other minor issues
Of course, the new SuperDuper 2.1.3 still improves on the acclaimed original in many ways, including:
The ability to easily schedule backups
Additional imaging options
More control over shutdown
Better AppleScript support
Hundreds of UI improvements
Growl support
And a completely rewritten, task-based User's Guide.
And it's a free update for registered 1.x users!

Keep the feedback coming, and we hope you love the new version!

Requirements:
Does not support optical or tape drives.

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