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FYI, SuperDuper did the trick!
I found SuperDuper to be a better drive cloner than Carbon Copy Cloner. Better standard Mac interface, better help, better support..worked perfectly in Tiger on a G5.
Rich Rubasch
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Thanks for the feedback! It’s great when an orginal poster reports a successful resolution of their issue.
Thanks again,
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Why not just use Disk Utility? It performs the same function.
Kevin Monahan
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[Kevin Monahan] “Why not just use Disk Utility? It performs the same function.”
Hi Kevin,
I have found that DU does a slightly better job because with Superduper there will be a few minor problems reported with Diskwarrior. Here is what the developer said:
“We’re using Apple utilities, at the lowest level, to do the actual disk erase and file copy, and those utilities are causing the ‘errors’ Disk Warrior is reporting. None of these errors are of any significance, so I truly wouldn’t worry about them: they’ll do no harm.I know that sounds like ‘passing the buck’, but there really is nothing we can do to prevent the problems: we’ve reported the issue to Apple, and they might be fixed in future OS releases. In the meantime — do not be concerned. Disk Warrior is just being overly ‘sensitive’ in indicating extremely minor things as error (minor things that would be found even in a brand new Mac).”
On the other hand right now if I use DU on my main boot partition it crashes, the partition becomes unbootable and I need to run DW to get it back (not acceptable).
Best Wishes,
Mitch
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One of the nice things about SuperDuper! is the scheduling of scripts.
Overnight SuperDuper! looks at my media drive RAID and copies over
to one of my Firewire 800 backup drives, whatever has been added or changed
while editing that day. I set it to look into a folder I call “FCP Media”
on my SATA RAID. In there are the audio render, auto save, capture
scratch, etc. files. I then set SuperDuper to look at only the folders within
those folders that have to do with a particular project I’m currently working on.
This means I can backup an entire project to one firewire 500 gig drive and
keep it as a separate backup for each project, from the entire 2 TB RAID.
Generally my shows take up about 450 gigs for all offline, uprez,
graphics and audio. So this works out quite nicely for me.Dan
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Personal Backup does the same things. FYI
Have a wonderful day.
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What’s “Personal Backup”?
Dab
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Did the google and found Personal Backup. Never heard of it previously.
OK, at three times the price is it three times better than SuperDuper! ?
I don’t see any glowing reviews.Dan
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Sorry Dan, I don’t know anything about Super Duper, but PB is very good.
Have a wonderful day.
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