[DM-MUG] superduper

[Bryan Baker]

Just thought I'd add to the conversation, that as fine a product as  
SuperDuper is, you can clone a drive quite nicely using nothing more  
than Apple's own Disk Utility. SD may add some bells and whistles I'm  
not aware of, but I've always had more than adequate success with DU.

On the subject of upgrade methods, I just went through a Leopard  
upgrade on my dual G5. I used the Clone, Erase/Install, Migrate  
method. It worked well except for one oddity I noticed because I was  
having trouble installing newer drivers for my audio interface:  
Migration will bring over more kruft than I thought, since it did  
bring over at least the kernel level drivers for the interface, and  
while I was poking around I noticed I still had parts of Virex lurking  
on my system even though it's been deprecated for years now. To fix my  
inability to upgrade I ended up having to manually move some things  
out of /Library/Extensions and Startupitems - that was messier than I  
thought it should be.


On Feb 24, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Darcy Baston wrote:
> Well that's odd. I've been using SuperDuper with Western Digital  
> drives for more than a year and haven't had any problems, minus one  
> WD drive that died on me. When SD starting choking with it (after  
> working flawlessly with it for 8 months), I tested the WD drive on a  
> WinXP and WinVista machines and it wouldn't work on their either  
> even with OS driven file copying. It kept having read/write errors  
> and eventually stopped functioning altogether.
>
> On Feb 23, 2008, at 8:45 PM, John Eller wrote:
>
>>
>> >Is that documented by the software developer, or did you use an  
>> external drive that it had trouble with?
>>
>> bought a western digital drive.  didn't work.  then read somewhere  
>> (developer's site? read me? not sure, sorry) that the software  
>> doesn't work with all drives.  the drive works with the software  
>> that comes with it.

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