Posted by Charlie V.

In part 2 of this backup blog, I’d like to talk about a fantastic system recovery application called SuperDuper!. SuperDuper! differs from Time Machine in the fact that it creates a fully bootable backup of your system, which is ideal if you have a dreaded hard disk failure and need to completely start over with a SuperDuper! is a breeze. You can choose to have the application take control and backup as often as you’d like, and the bootable image can be moved as one convenient (although sometimes large) file from one storage media to the next.

One convenient feature is the built in smart updater, which recognizes changes that you’ve made to your system since your last backup. SuperDuper! focuses on these changes, and can add them to your backup image without starting all over, which allows backups to happen quickly, and ensure you that all of your latest changes have been saved securely.

In researching both Time Machine and SuperDuper!, I have found that while they are both backup applications, they are even better compliment applications. Time Machine is great because of its instant search-ability, and its integration into the OS, where SuperDuper! shines at being bootable in case of hardware failure, and gives users that one image file containing all of their backup information.

Whatever method you choose, you’re doing a wise thing by backing up. As I said before, any system backup is better than nothing!

-Charlie