Jan 24, 2010 · The recommended way of restoring a CCC Backup, SuperDuper backup or Time Machine backup is boot from Recovery, erase and reinstall and migrate from the backup with Migration Assistant. This will migrate the contents of your -Data volume on …

Jun 20, 2010 · Incremental backups are fast because only the modified files are added to the backup set. Having said that, I still use CCC as well as the Time Machine. It is easier to pick an individual file to restore from a Time Machine backup as opposed to finding a file you are looking for inside the history folders of the CCC backup set.

Jul 20, 2021 · In the event of a disaster you can recover the whole system from the backup. Growly backs up specific folders you have chosen. You might want to try Growly as a second level backup for your documents and photos, but not for full system recovery. Personally I prefer my second level of backup be to a cloud service using, for example, Arq Backup.

Oct 31, 2016 · Now when I tried to CCC my drive to my backup drive via battery, my power would die before the backup would complete. Then I bought a 3rd party imitation HDMI/USB/Power dongle from curry's in the UK for £30 so I could power and backup to my external Sandisk SSD (it came with an adapter to change usb-c to USB so I could use it in this dongle).

Feb 6, 2012 · I know I'm paranoid, having lost business data years ago due to a bad HD and backup tapes not readable. It cost me $2500 to recover the data and even that was not complete. Hard drive and even SSD storage is now cheap, and I run 4 CCC backup drives (backup to a different drive each day) TM and an online backup.

Apr 13, 2011 · I've always preferred SuperDuper! to CCC, so was excited to find that they finally have a backup for Big Sur M1 Macs that lets you boot of an external drive. IOW, a complete backup. After 11.4 came out, I downloaded the SD Beta 3.5-beta.3, and did an erase then copy of my 500GB Boot Drive, onto a spare 250GB USB 3 (A type connector, 6 Gb/sec ...

Nov 23, 2012 · (SD). Specifically, after making a backup of one's OS 10.15.5 system with either program, the backup was not bootable. That of course is a precarious situation. Bombich software issued an update to CCC within 2 days, and just yesterday, issued another update. Meanwhile, nothing has happened with SD.

Apr 2, 2018 · Even Apple's own Time Machine can backup FAT32, ExFAT, and NTFS volumes, and Time Machine is really the least feature-rich backup solution there is. I think anything you'd pay for should at least do what Time Machine does and more, not less. I now bought "Get Backup Pro 3" and it seems pretty cool! It's very cheap and does quite a lot!

Mar 27, 2007 · Went to do a SuperDuper backup on the same volume and realized I couldn't without deleting the Time Machine sparse bundle, so this evening I'm going to blow everything away and partition the 6TB drive into separate partitions for Time Machine and SuperDuper.

Oct 30, 2013 · Plug in your backup and start the Mac whilst holding down the option key. Select your backup disk and your Mac will boot into Mavericks (exactly as it was when you made the backup). Re-partition the internal disk. using disk utility from your backup. Run SuperDuper and clone from backup drive to internal.