Superduper Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

So you just got a hard drive -- now what?

by Mel Martin (Dec 25th, 2008)

All day on December 25, TUAW presents "Now What?" We've got first steps and recommendations for all the Apple gifts you (hopefully!) found under the tree today. Happy holidays! Some good soul gifted you with a hard drive for the holidays. I can't think of a better gift! There are two ways to use ...

Backing up iTunes

by Dave Caolo (May 27th, 2008)

Just like every machine with moving parts, the hard drive that holds your iTunes library will eventually stop working. Read that line again - I didn't say might stop working, but will stop. It's going to happen, so be prepared. Mark Nichols at zanshin recently wrote about his own experience of ...

Mac 101: Back it Up

by Chris Ullrich (May 9th, 2008)

If you're like me, you probably spend a great deal of time using your Mac. From checking email, working with photos, surfing the web and paying bills to writing posts just like this, my Mac serves me well in so many ways. Using it every day as I do, I tend to create a massive amount of files, ...

At long last, a Leopard-compatible SuperDuper!

by Michael Rose (Feb 5th, 2008)

Pity the plight of Leopard users, who have wandered in the backup wilderness for so long, with only the ghost of H.G Wells to show them the path forward. Sure, Carbon Copy Cloner 3 has been a friend in time of need, but for those who crave a bootable clone that updates automatically and has a ...

Ask TUAW: reading Mac files from Windows, printing posters, VNC and more

by Mat Lu (Aug 22nd, 2007)

This week on Ask TUAW we cover questions about reading the Mac partition while running Windows in Boot Camp, remote management, printing posters, AGP video cards for G5s, problems with Flash and more! As always, leave your questions for next week in the comments. ...

Ask TUAW: iPhone alerts, Migration Assistant, annoying coworkers and more

by Chris Ullrich (Jul 11th, 2007)

Welcome to this week's edition of Ask TUAW. As you probably know from last week's column, Mat Lu, your favorite TUAW answer-man, is on vacation and this week I'm here to try and fill his very large shoes. We'll see how that goes but I feel optimistic. Remember, if you want to ask us a question here ...

Ask TUAW: time shift in iPhoto, HDTV to a Mac, backing up, and much more

by Mat Lu (Jun 20th, 2007)

Last week, Mike did a great job with Ask TUAW and we had a bumper crop of questions. We won't be able to get to all of them this week, but we'll be looking at a number of different issues including: shifting times in iPhoto, getting a Mac and HDTV to work well together, comparing the 24" iMac to the ...

SuperDuper bumped to 2.1.4

by Michael Rose (Feb 27th, 2007)

Dave Nanian's highly regarded (and practically foolproof) backup utility SuperDuper! is now at version 2.1.4, available from the shirt-pocket.com website or via the auto update within SD itself. New and fixed items include: Displays are no longer kept active during a copy Scheduled copies ...

Carbon Copy Cloner 3.0 Beta - Newly Built and Universal

by Mat Lu (Feb 19th, 2007)

Back in the day, Mike Bombich's Carbon Copy Cloner was one of those must-have Mac apps. It was the first solution for making bootable backups to an external hard drive. Unfortunately, CCC had not been updated in quite some time (2003) and its former place has been taken on many Macs by the excellent ...

TUAW Tip: The easy way to backup on mount

by Michael Rose (Jan 12th, 2007)

Sometimes you have to suffer through the hard way once or twice just to find out... there's an easier way. I've posted recently about commercial backup applications that trigger a backup when you connect a target drive; I've posted on roll-your-own scripts that do the same thing. Over at ...

Adventures in tech support: iBook edition

by Dave Caolo (Sep 4th, 2006)

Alternate title (and moral of the story): A good backup saves the day. When I'm not gleefully blogging for TUAW in our secret, undisclosed location (Scott's livingroom), I'm working as the "Computer Guy" for a large, Mac-friendly company (yes, I'm essentially Nick Burns). On Sunday I received an ...

SuperDuper 2.1.2

by Scott McNulty (Jun 14th, 2006)

Shirt Pocket software has just released version 2.1.2 of SuperDuper, their excellent backup software. This Universal Binary fixes some bugs and adds Growl support (something I think many more applications should support). SuperDuper $27.95 for the full version, however if you download the software ...

SuperDuper! 2.1.1

by Scott McNulty (May 18th, 2006)

Backups are incredibly important, that's why you need to get a system in place to make it as easy as possible to backup your Mac. SuperDuper! is a great way to kick start that system, and version 2.1.1 has just been released. It is a Universal Binary (that showed up in 2.1), it can automount ...