Forum: General
09-29-2020, 11:34 AM
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Forum: General
09-28-2020, 07:38 PM
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Replies: 3
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backup of system data volume will not mount
I have an external drive partitioned into two APFS volumes (but only 1 container). I ran SuperDuper! to clone my laptop Catalina (10.15.7) system drive to one of the partitions on the external...
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Forum: General
08-19-2020, 10:52 AM
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Replies: 1
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Using SD for archiving original versions of files?
I'd like to archive original versions of photo images after they are transferred from the camera's card to my hard drive. So, I want SD not to alter any file on the destination, no matter what has...
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Forum: General
06-03-2020, 10:15 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 13,097
Thanks for the reply.
Perhaps you can...
Thanks for the reply.
Perhaps you can suggest a better alternative for me...here's my use case:
My laptop has <250GB on it, and because it has no important data on it that isn't elsewhere...
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Forum: General
05-31-2020, 10:38 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 13,097
Backing up to disk images in Catalina?
I've always used SD's "clone to disk image" feature to keep backups of volumes as part of my backup strategy. (I have a rotating set of 4 drives to which I make a normal backup, and then...
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Forum: General
06-14-2018, 03:43 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 15,624
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Forum: General
06-14-2018, 10:35 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 15,624
Thanks for the quick reply.
I think of SD!...
Thanks for the quick reply.
I think of SD! with my weekly (rotating for a month) full system cloning as my "backup" in terms of recovering from things like disk failure, system updates that went...
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Forum: General
06-13-2018, 11:47 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 15,624
SuperDuper! and copying Time Machine drives
Over the years I've used SD! successfully a number of times to clone a TM drive when the drive ran out of room (or if I just wanted to use a newer drive). It's always been successful (AFAIK...)
I...
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Forum: General
07-18-2017, 06:02 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 7,453
SDCopy process running, SD app is not
In Activity Monitor, the SDCopy process is running and hogging about 110% CPU, but the SD app itself is not running.
Am I correct that this is not expected behavior?
Thanks.
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Forum: General
08-23-2015, 03:19 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 8,317
A small question of reporting...
This obviously doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things, but I was cloning off a large disk (3TB), and I came across the attached, which shows SD reporting more files evaluated (160,949)...
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Forum: General
03-28-2015, 06:17 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 11,949
Hmmm...interesting. I have seen this problem...
Hmmm...interesting. I have seen this problem without an intervening restart.
I just decided to try deleting the .DS_Store file in the Settings folder. I have no idea whether than will make a...
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Forum: General
03-28-2015, 12:16 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 11,949
I can't account for this, but this is what...
I can't account for this, but this is what happens for me....
I backup using SD once a week, and I have three different volumes to backup, using three different SD settings files. When I first...
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Forum: General
03-10-2015, 12:22 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 11,949
sort order in Load Settings
This is an extremely small matter....
Whenever I open SD and then go to Load Settings, the sort order of the items is always by modification date rather than by file name (I'd prefer the latter). ...
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Forum: General
10-27-2013, 08:29 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 8,451
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Forum: General
10-27-2013, 06:02 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 8,451
size of sparseimage clone
I just cloned a volume that was 108GB, but the sparseimage target is only 88GB. When I mount the sparseimage, the resulting volume is 88GB in Finder's Get Info, but when showing file/folder sizes in...
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Forum: General
10-26-2013, 06:29 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 11,258
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Forum: General
10-26-2013, 05:04 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 11,258
Color me potentially confused...sorry if I'm...
Color me potentially confused...sorry if I'm being dense.
1. It seems to me that if I want to clone a physical volume to a physical volume AND I wish to have a compressed, read-only disk image of...
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Forum: General
10-26-2013, 03:10 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 11,258
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Forum: General
10-26-2013, 03:09 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 11,376
(Didn't miss the reply this time..but for some...
(Didn't miss the reply this time..but for some reason I don't get the email notification, even though I have "instant notification" on...doesn't show up in the Gmail spam folder, either...perhaps the...
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Forum: General
10-26-2013, 02:54 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 11,258
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Forum: General
10-26-2013, 02:48 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 11,376
Thanks for the quick reply, which somehow I...
Thanks for the quick reply, which somehow I missed. :(
So, the conclusion for next time I need to do this is "Go ahead, click 'ignore ownership' and don't worry about what the system does...when...
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Forum: General
09-28-2013, 04:54 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 11,376
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Forum: General
03-22-2013, 07:23 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 12,486
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Forum: General
03-22-2013, 03:45 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 12,486
recovering from i/o error
Yesterday I cloned one external drive to another external, and just about the same time that SD finished up, there was a spontaneous unmount of the target volume. This has happened to me before...
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Forum: General
12-25-2012, 03:01 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 8,958
Thanks for the reply. I've tried a variety of...
Thanks for the reply. I've tried a variety of different destinations, and the problem only seems to be from this particular sparseimage source. So perhaps there could be a corruption issue there?
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