I myself have not used carbon, but i do use SuperDuper. Regarding your Partitions You’re going to have a problem if you want to use Time Machine (TM) and SuperDuper together. Time Machine requires a partition of it’s own, or at least, 1 partition that isn’t being used by anything else. The format of your TimeMachine partition is fine, though you’ll have to either put your TM backup on another hard drive, or not use Time Machine, period. Booting from Super Duper is fine. It’s essentially considered another startup disk, just as your Mac’s internal hard drive would be. Select your backup drive in startup disk prefs, and click on restart. The Mac will boot off of your SuperDuper disk like nothing happened. hard Drive Space SuperDuper images take up the size of your Mac’s Drive. So, if your Mac has a 1TB drive, it’s suggested you devote 1 partition of say a 2 partitioned drive to Super Duper, that has at least 1TB. If you don’t, SuperDuper won’t back up correctly. There is a feature of Super Duper called Smart Update. Smart Update updates what hasn’t been updated, and wastes no time trying to back up the entire drive. It erases the partition you told it to copy to, and makes it like your internal drive is. Meaning, whatever structure your internal mac HD has, that’s what your external drive’s partition will look like, with the exception of, SuperDuper is making that 1 partition bootable.
One Thing To Note Warning! - Don’t Copy Files Manually To The Bootable Partition If SuperDuper makes a backup, do not attempt copying files direct to the partition. You’ll screw the partition up and make it not boot. Even if you went into startup disk, once you copy files manually to the partition, you’ll mess up the fact that the disk was ever bootable. For you to solve this problem, the permanent fix would be for you to use SuperDuper’s smart update,which will remake the disk bootable, based upon changed data on your Mac’s internal hD. I hope my explaining helps you in a wise choice in what to buy. Daniel Primary System Administrator Firestar-Hosting.Com <http://firestar-hosting.com/> Equality web hosting since November 2010 www.firestar-hosting.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
