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SuperDuper is perfect companion to Apple Mac OS X Leopard’s Time Machine

Monday, October 13, 2008 - 02:46 PM EDT

"With Leopard, Apple released Time Machine. It is the ultimate backup system for newbies and professionals alike. They say its a true one-click backup solution. I agree. The simplicity and beauty of the Time Machine backup is simply mindblowing. Retrieving files, emails, addresses, and the ability to completely restore a system back to a date and time rightfully makes Time Machine the star feature of Leopard," Milind Alvares reports for Smoking Apples.

"But, and there’s always a but, Time Machine has some drawbacks. For one, you cannot boot from a Time Machine drive. In cases of system failure, a faulty OS update, or you just plain want to boot from your earlier system state, you cannot do that with Time Machine. You also have very little control, security, and mobility with Time Machine," Alvares reports.

"SuperDuper has been a favourite among many mac aficionados... At it’s core, SuperDuper makes carbon copies of your system anywhere you want it to. This is a bootable copy, which can be used as your startup disk. This copy can be used to bring back your system to the time of the backup. This backup can be mounted on your desktop so you can browse your system using the Finder to retrieve files and folders. And all this can be scheduled," Alvares reports.

"For most part, if you just want SuperDuper as a companion to Time Machine, the free version works just fine. But if you are serious about backups, then you need to pay for SuperDuper," Alvares reports. "A reasonable $28 gets you Smart Updates, Scheduling, Sandboxing and Scripts."

Read the full review here.