Superduper Mac

t startp in target mode. So what I got was a clean install with a new user name. Then I thought maybe I could restore the user files with SuperDuper and boot from them. Nope. ...

s an application that allows me to meet my personal backup goals while helping others to join the backup bandwagon, even family members who have not yet made the Mac migration until CrashPlan came along. ...

Buy a cheap Firewire external and use any of the backup options of Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner or Superduper to make "bootable" backups. ...

If I did do that, and I backed up the Mac partition with Superduper! and the Win partition with Winclone, would the restore of both partitions individually be seamless and ultimately work properly? ...

Also, the manufacturer of external FireWire device, its model number, and the manufacturer and model number of the actual hard disk drive, should have been provided. And one needs to know if the specific FireWire device is boot able - due to the 'chip set' incorporated. Based on the provided information: 01. Backup the other partition(s) of data on the external FireWire...

'... Superduper! ... backed up my startup hard drive to an external firewire ... hard drive, which ... should be bootable. But I can't get the computer to start from the external hard drive.' - missing information: Mac model, MacOS X version number, and SuperDuper! version number. Quickly, if the (unknown model) Mac is Intel based - was the external FireWire drive formatted...

Sounds like you do this often - What kind of problems lead to to the conclusion that you have to erase and reinstall everything? This is quite unusual to do this more than once or twice on any Mac. There's some good backup software available - Carbon Copy Cloner is very good - http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html or SuperDuper...

If you want to use an external as an off Mac store why not clear out the USB drive and use that one? ...

Thank goodness I made a SuperDuper clone right before I installed Leopard!! ...

First make a bootable backup of your existing computer onto an external HD using Superduper or Carbon Copy Cloner 3. ...