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Originally Posted by legaltocarry
Hi! But also remember the resulting clone likely wouldn't work well since you would be getting low on disk space in short order. Tom
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Yes, I agree that data grows. The question is remains can SuperDuper create a backup of 450 gigs of data on a 750 gig drive to a target disk that is larger than 450 gigs but smaller than the 750 gig size drive?
Here is one example of where this would be handy.
If you have a Mac Pro (handles 4 drives internally), you might set up a system where two drives are striped, one drive is for a backup and the 4th drive is used for say VM of Windows or bootcamp and as perhaps other uses.
Example
2x 750 gig drive striped and uses as the primary "drive" for OSX/Apps etc.
1 750 gig drive for back up target (assuming data is smaller than 750 gigs)
1 750 gig drive for Windows and other uses
the striped drive offers speed
the back up is used in case one of the drives of the stripe fails and for EFI upgrades (EFI upgrades don't do well with the sofware raid at times).
I don't intend to use more than 50 percent of the Raid 0 (striped) volume and would simply move stored media files outside the system. The use is strictly for read/write speed.
So - can SuperDuper handle this set up? I wish to avoid messing with Unix style "rsynch" scripts etc. Btw, I am using Leopard OSX 10.5x
Thanks : )
Phrehdd
PS - if SuperDuper can do this, its a very good "safe" set up for folks like me that work with larger media files.