Unless you’re using an older Mac Pro or you’ve built your own Hackintosh, this is most likely going to be an external drive. You need a second hard drive to which to backup. You use someone else’s Mac as a dumb terminal to access a perfect copy of your out-of-action Mac. With a SuperDuper! clone you can even boot directly from your backup. To perform a recovery, all you have to do is reverse the cloning procedure and copy all the data back from your backup to the Mac.įurther, while you can access the files you’ve backed up with Time Machine using someone else’s Mac, you may run into issues where they do not have the right applications installed, or the right privileges to access your files.
With a SuperDuper! clone, the operating system is backed up alongside the user files. I had to do this once and it was an overnight process for a 128GB MacBook Air I can only imagine doing it with a computer with a multi-terabyte drive. If the worst comes to the worst and you need to restore your entire computer, you first need to reinstall OS X-which if you have a Mac without a recovery partition, involves a five gigabyte download-and then restore everything from Time Machine. Time Machine, unfortunately, does not back up the operating system files. If something goes wrong with an application update or you misplace a file, it’s easy to use a Time Machine backup from a week, a day or an hour ago to sort everything out. Where it really excels is keeping versioned backups of your files and applications over time. OS X’s built in backup service, Time Machine, is great. If you want to ensure you never lose a single byte of data, read his tutorial carefully. Tuts+ author, Marius, has written a great tutorial on creating a totally foolproof backup system. You’re, digitally, back to square one.Īll of this can be prevented with a solid back up plan. When disaster does strike, and it will, the work you’ve done, photos you’ve taken and movies you’ve downloaded are wiped in one fell swoop. The problem is that modern computers are so good that it is very easy to go years without ever needing a backup you might lose the odd file that you accidentally deleted but, for the most part, you’ll get by okay. You Never Need a Backup-Until You Doīacking up is the digital equivalent of eating kale-everyone knows it’s a good idea, all the experts rave about it and yet, almost nobody does it.
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to start using SuperDuper! clones as a backup, how to access the backups-if you need to-and how to restore from them. This gives it a couple of advantages over other backup solutions such as OS X’s built in Time Machine. When you use it to back up a Mac, it copies the entire operating system-along with all the applications, files and almost everything else. SuperDuper! is an application that makes a perfect clone, of a Mac’s hard drive, on a different hard drive.
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