Hi Phil, I only Have a single external disk drive which both time machine and SuperDuper! share. There is only a single partition on that external disk. In smart update mode SuperDuper! uses the time machine backup to minimise the SuperDuper! update activity. In my case SuperDuper! takes about one hour to do its smart update. I have a 320 GB hard disk in my iMac and I use a 1000 GB external hard disk for the time machine and SuperDuper! backups. If necessary I can boot my iMac from the external hard disk. The only snag is that you have to use the paid version of SuperDuper! to get the smart update function. However it is well worth the money. Hope that helps...
Paul Hopewellmahcine @ hav e On 28 Aug 2012, at 21:26, "Phil Halton" <philh...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Just one question, do you have the external drive partitioned one each for > superduper and one for Time Machine? Is that necessary? I thought I read or > heard that TM and SuperDuper both assume the entire disk or disk partition is > theirs and theirs alone. > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Hopewell" <hopew...@hopewell.org.uk> > To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 12:04 PM > Subject: Re: Command R start up options > > >> Hello, >> I use SuperDuper! in smart update mode and also time machine all using the >> same external hard disk. I do find time machine very useful for recovering >> mail items long ago deleted but which refer to some now current item. Time >> machine does frequent very efficient backups enabling you to recover a file >> you accidentally deleted a few hours ago and which is no longer in the trash >> as you also recently emptied that! . I then only do SuperDuper! backups >> approximately one a month or following major system upgrades such as a new >> ML release. They do work together very well and SuperDuper! really does work >> as I recently had to recover my ML system from the SuperDuper! backup. >> Best regards.... >> >> Paul Hopewell >> On 28 Aug 2012, at 16:21, Gordon Smith <gor...@mac-access.net> wrote: >> >>> Yes, but it really would be a little pointless. Super Duper! is a total >>> backup solution. Time Machine is a shadow or synchronous backup solution. >>> So they are two different species. They do two different types of backup. >>> Where they would work well together is in a situation where you registered >>> Super Duper! and then you have access to the "Smart Updates" functionality >>> of Super Duper!. In that type of scenario, you'd be able to get the best >>> out of both of them if you configure them right. >>> >>> But to be honest, I really think that if you're looking at a backup >>> solution to use Super Duper, I would personally advise you to forget about >>> Tie machine, and just make sure you have a regular strategic backup >>> routine. I hope that helps. >>> >>> Gordon >>> >>> On 28 Aug 2012, at 15:30, Phil Halton <philh...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Gordon, that was helpful. I just downloaded SuperDuper and will look >>> it over. Question: Can I use SuperDuper and Time Machine side by side on a >>> single external drive? Would I need a seperate partition for each? I'm >>> looking at a 2 terabyte firewire drive from IOMega for backup purposes. My >>> internal Mac HD is 500GB. do you have a favorite drive or a recommendation >>> for a good external backup drive? 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