[DM-MUG] superduper

[Matthew W.]

Yes, Disk Utility is a fine tool. I've had problems using it from the  
boot/install DVD in late Tiger and Leopard, and it has a slight  
learning curve, but once you figure out the routine, it's actually  
just as easy and useful as CarbonCopyCloner or SD!.

I, too, am befuddled occasionally by the "kruft" that Migration  
Assistant brings over. I'd like a LOT more granularity in choices for  
this. In addition, it sometimes takes two tries to get it right. It's  
a useful tool that I've not seen the like of anywhere else, but it  
has its problems and knowing a little UNIX never hurts if permissions  
get toasted. Ah, well, job security! I still recommend it.

Mw

On Feb 24, 2008, at 9:26 AM, Bryan Baker wrote:

> 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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