The cornerstone of my Mac backup plan now works in Leopard. That’s right, SuperDuper has been updated to work with OS X 10.5. Perhaps one of the last major shareware applications to be updated for Leopard, the delay drew a lot of criticism from users. Some users had switched to using Carbon Copy Cloner due to the delays with SuperDuper. Many power users have implemented a backup plan and SuperDuper has become vital to so many users of its users. I actually delayed upgrading to Leopard because SuperDuper wasn’t yet Leopard compatible. I upgraded a little more than a week ago so this update comes at a perfect time for me.
Other than full Leopard compatibility, what else is new? SuperDuper 2.5 brings the ability to store bootable backups alongside Time Machine backups. You can also run scheduled copies on demand. A revision history can be found by selecting Help > Revision History from the SuperDuper menu. When I get home I’ll update this post with more information about the changes made in 2.5.
It appears like the traffic from the 2.5 release is crushing the Shirt Pocket servers as their forum and blog are both down. If you can hold off downloading the new version for a few hours you might want to wait for the traffic to die down.
SuperDuper will make bootable copies of your Mac hard drive and it won’t cost you a dime. For $28 you can purchase the software and it will unlock additional features likes scheduling, Smart Update, scripting, and more. The Smart Update feature saves hours of time backing up and if you are serious about backing up then $28 will be money well spent. As an alternative, you can also try Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) from Bombich Software. CCC is donationware and if you find it indispensable I highly suggest donating to the developer.
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