Superduper Rocks--Cloning a Drive in Catalina, It'll Do That!

[John Eeee]

With these "trial" deals and once-every-four year HDD/SSD swap out I didn’t really have to pay for Superduper but I'm a happy customer so I did. I tried Carbon Copy Cloner first, and granted I bumped the USB a few times and re-started the dupe, but theirs FAILED to make a bootable backup. Urgh. As I’m you know when you’re dealing with a “mid 2012” MacBook moving 600gb takes over SATA takes 8 hours over USB 2.0 (I replaced a 1TB HDD with a 1TB SSD), so if it fails you have to START OVER, a heavy price to pay. Superduper just worked, first time, and if your dealing with this “Catalina” (Apple just.keeps.changing.everything) you have two choices (CCC and Superduper) basically. Great, great product, reasonably priced and does what it says it does, period. This was overall (including the CCC failure) a 24-hour project (typing this into a mid-2012 MacBook Pro that is actually usable and pretty fast now)... If anyone cares used a Crucial MX500 SSD 1TB, don't forget the SATA cable (!) Woohoo!

 

[tommiy]

Never had an issues with CCC failing to make a bootable backup. Both a great products. Reminds me to backup for the week.

 

[John Eeee]

Never had an issues with CCC failing to make a bootable backup. Both a great products. Reminds me to backup for the week.

Fair enough note that the CCCC dupe was interrupted by my human error (accidentally bumping a loose USB), so my bad, but the documentation did say that it would recover from interruptions which it didn’t... this was more meant as a + for SuperDuper than neg for CCC...

 

[tommiy]

No probs I'm always super cautious doing backups to not interupt it because the intent is to use it in an emergency and the last thing I relly want to be doing is testing that software handles interruptions when making a bootable backup. Goood to know that CCC may not handle that instance. I'll keep that in mind but its not some thing that I'm likely to use. Thanks for the information though.

 

[Jack Neill]

I have used both a lot and both are great. I have a 2TB MX500 in my Mid 2012. BTW that Mac has USB 3.0.

 

[spyguy10709]

Both products seem like lighting $30 on fire when you can just clone the disk in disk utility or recovery

 

[Jack Neill]

Both products seem like lighting $30 on fire when you can just clone the disk in disk utility or recovery

There is a little more to CCC than that. Version 5 is excellent and worth 30$ for sure.

 

[spyguy10709]

There is a little more to CCC than that. Version 5 is excellent and worth 30$ for sure.

Not trying to start a flame war here, genuinely curious - I've used CCC long ago when it was freeware almost a decade ago, not really since. Poking around their website, I'm not sure what can justify the price tag other than ease of use and potentially incremental backups. What is it you find useful about the suite?

 

[newadventure]

Is this a shill advertisement?

 

[Taz Mangus]

Is this a shill advertisement?

It is interesting that the OP joined the same day to post about Super Duper.

 

[honestone33]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: either SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner will do the job, and both are great! I use SuperSuper! (SD), and it has never failed me. Used the free version for about a year, and was glad to pay the $27.95 for the paid version. And Shirt Pocket Software has never charged a single penny for upgrades to SD.