SuperDuper! Beta (Catalina Compatibility) Available

[honestone33]

I just saw this on Shirt Pocket's site:

Shirt Pocket Watch

The actual download link for the V3.3 beta is just before the heading "Quickly Getting to the Point", about 1/5th of the way down that first page. That paragraph entitled "Quickly Getting to the Point" contains some excellent reasons why it is best to wait until the final version is released. Besides, moving/upgrading to Catalina at this point does not seem to be a wise idea, given all the bugs, issues, etc. Plus I myself will not move to Catalina until there are stable, compatible versions of SuperDuper!, Onyx, and TechTool Pro.

 

[The Hammer]

I just saw this on Shirt Pocket's site:

Shirt Pocket Watch

The actual download link for the V3.3 beta is just before the heading "Quickly Getting to the Point", about 1/5th of the way down that first page. That paragraph entitled "Quickly Getting to the Point" contains some excellent reasons why it is best to wait until the final version is released. Besides, moving/upgrading to Catalina at this point does not seem to be a wise idea, given all the bugs, issues, etc. Plus I myself will not move to Catalina until there are stable, compatible versions of SuperDuper!, Onyx, and TechTool Pro.

Are you a long time user of SuperDuper? Have you done a restore with it?

 

[honestone33]

Are you a long time user of SuperDuper? Have you done a restore with it?

Yes, I am. And I've done 3 restores with it. Given that my Macs are basically trouble free, I rarely have had to do a restore from a SuperDuper! backup. Besides having a reliable bootable backup, it really makes installing a new Mac OS painless, along with being reliable.

 

[MSastre]

Yes, I am. And I've done 3 restores with it. Given that my Macs are basically trouble free, I rarely have had to do a restore from a SuperDuper! backup. Besides having a reliable bootable backup, it really makes installing a new Mac OS painless, along with being reliable.

I'm a long time SuerDuper user and fan. I've used it for well over 10 years and don't even bother with Time Machine, because I find working with clones is a much better option for me. Totally agree with it making the installing of new OSs painless and I also keep bootable clones of older OSs in case I need to use software that is no longer supported.

 

[honestone33]

+1000! Yeah, everything you stated is so, so accurate.

There is one "drawback" to using SuperDuper! instead of Carbon Copy Cloner, though. CCC can backup the (hidden) Recovery HD partition, whereas SuperDuper! can't But that is certainly not a hindrance for me., as 1) it gets recreated on a clean installation of the Mac OS, and 2) there are other ways of creating it.

 

[The Hammer]

+1000! Yeah, everything you stated is so, so accurate.

There is one "drawback" to using SuperDuper! instead of Carbon Copy Cloner, though. CCC can backup the (hidden) Recovery HD partition, whereas SuperDuper! can't But that is certainly not a hindrance for me., as 1) it gets recreated on a clean installation of the Mac OS, and 2) there are other ways of creating it.

I believe that I have recently read on the shirt pocket blog that it does now clone the recovery partition.

 

[honestone33]

I believe that I have recently read on the shirt pocket blog that it does now clone the recovery partition.

Nope. I just looked at the blog, and it does not mention that at all. Maybe provide the exact link if you saw it, but I did not.