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SubjectRe: Paintshop and Corel
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Date2013-11-27 10:56 (2013-11-27 04:56)
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In article <2013112700563627294-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:

Savageduck
Full backup of the MBP HDD is a separate issue an is dealt with by Superduper. My desktop Mac is backed up with TimeMachine

Sandman
How come you don't use Time Machine on your MBP? SuperDuper is nice, but Time Machine is incremental, which sounds like a better choice, no?

Savageduck
The MBP is meant to give me a degree of portability and lugging a HDD farm around adds a burden to that portability. One OWC FW800 Mercury drive doesn't take up too much space. TimeMachine is a consideration, but the way I use my MBP would make it less than efficient or perhaps a little less practical.

you don't have to lug a hard drive for time machine. new with lion are local time machine snapshots, which takes snapshots to your internal hard drive when the backup drive is offline, such as when you're not home. it's not intended to be a backup since it's the same drive but it does let you recover older files if needed.

when you are home and the actual backup drive is available, time machine will back up to that, as expected.

BTW: Superduper does incremental saves.

it does incremental clones, which means copying only the changed files. what you end up with is a full clone of your drive as it stands when you run superduper, it just doesn't take as long as copying the entire drive each time.

what he's talking about are incremental snapshots, so you can go back in time to what was on the disk at some point in the past. you can recover a deleted file or retrieve an earlier version before you made a major change.

you can't do that with superduper because deleted files on the main drive are then deleted on the backup drive. you just have a clone of your drive *now*.

time machine and superduper do different things and cover different types of failures. both are a good idea.