> On Apr 29, 2010, at 9:09 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote:
> > My SuperDuper settings call for "smart update" which mimics the
> > complete backup option
> > so all files not on the original drive must have been erased, and
> > thoroughly.
>
On Apr 29, 8:42 pm, Kris Tilford <ktilfo...@cox.net> wrote:
> I don't think your hypothesis is correct. I've used both SuperDuper
> and Data Rescue. ,,, I don't believe that SuperDuper would have taken the
> time to
> zero all data on the HD unless you specified this in a preference
> beforehand.
Thanks for that thorough response Kris.
I guess part of my trouble is that I'm not sure what happened.
Typically, I back up my boot drive to another drive that I take with
me when I travel along with the 1 TB drive.
Regrettably, I didn't look at the SD settings ("this drive to that
drive"),
but, did note that it was taking a long time to "smart update".
Still, I figured this was because I hadn't backed up for weeks, and I
don't recall it taking an hour or two.
I may have booted the TB drive when setting up, not sure. But, almost
certainly didn't do anything else.
>
> Also, to correctly use Data Rescue you'd need access to another clean
> HD.
I understand this and figure(d) I'll need another TB drive to recover.
>While you may be able to compile a list of recoverable files using
> a smaller HD,
That's what I thought and hoped. But I don't see anything in the
recoverable files that look like my lost files.
>
> I still think there SHOULD be MANY recoverable files using Data Rescue
At your prompt, I'm going to look again
> UNLESS the HD was zeroed, and zeroing a 1TB HD is a fairly long
> process that's not normally part of a SuperDuper backup.
right. Thank you
Cliff
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