Busy week
Post-Labor Day (on which I still labored), it’s been a busy week here at Shirt Pocket HQ.
I’ve been adding a few little features and fixes to SuperDuper, improving behaviors with regard to images, Cloud Storage, and wrapping up Golden Gate support for its release, which will likely be a few hours after this posts.
Details are in the release notes.
SuperDuper is ready, but…
Golden Gate, in my view, looks to be one of the more reliable releases we’ve had in years, even in its 27.0 release. I wouldn’t hesitate to encourage people to install it, without waiting for the (inevitable) 27.1 release. I even recommended it to the curious during the very stable and reliable Beta period. Shockingly painless.
That said, there’s always a but in these releases, you know?
The big but(t—sorry) in Golden Gate 27.0 is a SuperDuper issue (that is actually an Apple issue): backups, even though a bootable backup is properly configured to boot, they aren’t showing up as choices in either the startup disk preference pane or the startup picker. (FB24210103, reported quite a while ago, Apple friends.)
Fortunately, unlike when this happened before, there’s no error during copy. But, even though the end result is bootable1, it just doesn’t appear.
Remember: a drive doesn’t have to boot to be fully restored. But there are many scenarios where boot is essential, and I’m hoping Apple will fix this soon.
Ecosystem: engage!
I was delighted to see that there’s a third-party app called [OpenBackup][open] that offers mobile notification when backups run for both SuperDuper 4 and SuperDuper Classic. It works on both iOS and Android.
I always hope, when I implement things like Shortcuts support, that other developers will make use of them to do cool things2…it’s nice to see it happening.
In the meantime
I continue to be surprised and delighted by how well the rollout of SuperDuper 4 is going. Thanks to everyone who has registered, to those who have recommended it to their friends, and to the folks that have reviewed it.
But now, it’s time to update SuperDuper using the built-in updater, or
Download SuperDuper! 4.0.6 Now
As always, thanks for using SuperDuper!—your support is appreciated.
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You can prove this to yourself if you really want to by booting into Recovery, reducing security with the Startup Security utility, and then using
bless --mount /Volumes/Backup-Volume --setBootin Recovery’sTerminal. But don’t unless you really have to. ↩︎ -
It’s always nice to leave some space for fellow developers (not to mention users) to build on what you’ve done: we did this with Classic, with support for
Growland extensive AppleScript support. ↩︎