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10.5: Ease restore from Time Machine
Authored by: jiclark on Oct 26, '07 11:07:56AM

Sorry to veer off-topic, but the one thing I've never been able to figure out how to do with SuperDuper (and is exactly what TimeMachine does) is to save files that have been deleted from the source volume... Doesn't SuperDuper just maintain a backup that is a mirror of the source? In other words, doesn't it delete files from the backup that have been deleted from the source?

Back on topic, I can imagine Time Machine simply becoming another element in my backup strategy, as opposed to a replacement. I will definitely keep my external drive (cloned with SuperDuper, and updated daily with ChronoSync), so that I have an immediately bootable solution, and then use TM as a redundant backup of changed/deleted files...



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10.5: Ease restore from Time Machine
Authored by: kbradnam on Oct 26, '07 11:15:33AM

I use SuperDuper to make two sets of backups. One is a nightly backup which makes the backup an exact copy, so this will delete files from the backup if necessary.

I also backup to a second partition using the 'Copy Newer Files' option. This only ever adds to the backup, and can actually quickly take up a lot of space if there are lots of large temporary files that you only ever work with for a day or two. But this backup helps if you delete a file and don't realize for a day or two. This is an inelegant backup strategy to say the least, so I'm hopeful that Time Machine will make this part of my backup strategy redundant.



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