I have two shell scripts, mount_backup and unmount_backup, that SuperDuper! runs before and after the copy via these settings in its Advanced Options pane:īoth scripts use the diskutil program, both to get the drive identifier for the backup disk and to to mount it. This keeps the disk off my Desktop and and prevents me from inadvertently opening it, reading from it, and-worst of all-writing to it. The backup drive is always plugged in and running, but I prefer to have it unmounted except when the backup is being made. On my office Mac, I have SuperDuper! set up to do a backup automatically every weeknight. When you need to get your computer back up and running, there’s nothing better than booting from an external drive and having your normal working environment there for you. Hard disk failures never happen at a convenient time, and reinstalling the operating system and all your applications can take forever. My experience with hard disk failures has taught me to clone the entire drive instead of just my data. I use SuperDuper! instead of Time Machine because I like the idea of having a complete, bootable clone of my startup drive, and SuperDuper! is probably the easiest way to make such a clone. I don’t think I’ve made any changes since these scripts were first posted, but this seemed like a good time to bring them all together in a single article. You may have heard that a new version of SuperDuper! was released yesterday, so I thought I’d repost my SuperDuper! scripts. I then reformatted for Time Machine and am now back to square one with Time Machine.Next post Previous post SuperDuper! scripts redux Wow, I hadn't used command lines since my Dos 5.0 days, so it was definitely a blast from the past! I worked all day on it and finally manually deleted all the partitions using Mac Terminal command lines, which I knew nothing about. Every app and utility had it greyed out! I could not reformat it, and the recovery software that might have repaired the drive was breathtakingly expensive. Utilities could see it, but it was like dead to the world. The catch was that as usual the boot wouldn't work, but this time, my new HDD Drive was comatose! Nothing could access it. Why not, what the heck? Go for it! It then proceeded to overwrite and reformat my Apple Time machine ext HDD drive. Once installed It asked me if I wanted to make my Adata 1 TB HDD bootable. As usual, I d/l it then jumped through all the Apple security hoops, nannies, reboots etc. That was until I almost met my Waterloo!! It has the cheery name of Super Duper Backup for macOS. They all failed at creating a boot USB on the M2. I tried so many free options and even crippled versions, but none worked. I wanted 100% free, why not, it’s just for home use on one machine, plus on PCs this is not a biggie. So I set out on a quest to find a Macrium-like backup for MacOS. It's fast, elegant, modern and totally free. It is, however, rather long in the tooth, "The 90s just called, they want their backup returned!" LOL, I have been spoiled for life by Macrium Reflect Backup. It does the job and is convenient because it's hard-wired into the bios, so you don't need to use a boot device. Of course, I first learned how to use Time Machine. Backing up my new M2 has been, to say the least, a learning experience. I just did a search M2 backup info and got crickets.
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