![]() SuperDuper 3.5 - TidBITS SuperDuper 3.2 brings support for macOS 10.14 Mojave, including full disk access and automation prompting. As you can see my MEDIA drive shows up in a folder after it had failed so I could just copy the stuff back once I replaced the drive. You can now use an SD clone to boot another (good) Mac, or to boot and restore your original Mac once it has been repaired. You don't have to use TM to restore from the backups it makes, you can copy stuff back manually. computer crashes you need to insert the original DVD and restore from the Time Machine backup. Quite often you will have to go back through the dated folders because TM will have made backups every hour since the drive failed and you won't see it in the latest folders. Super Duper has a free version which will do the job. You just go into the backup folder in Finder manually and you will see the drive there in the folders. If it was an external drive then you will not see it in the time machine restore window as there no longer a drive with that name in finder. Hence I now keep 2 identical backups that I know I can access & rely on should an emergency arise again. All data was intact (though hideously out of date by that time) and I restored from an external copy I had made with SuperDuper. Seagate flashed the firmware on my drive and got the header back. It is a faithful copy, not compressed or anything, but does the job handsomely. But from my frustrated playing around with it, there's no 'instant access' like there is with SuperDuper, which doesn't rely on an accessible target volume to restore to first - I get the data directly from where I backed it up to. Had I a spare drive to swap out then I could have restored it and accessed it: once it had restored it. Individual files are also easy to restore: just drag and drop from the backup. And restoration which, should you be on deadline, you need not do immediately is just a matter of replacing the drive and copying back. bay 2) won't show up given its fault which seems to be where TM falls short. Simple to Restore With SuperDuper, recovery in that situation is literally a matter of booting from your most recent backup. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDupers built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. But there's no drive - in TM's opinion - to restore to, as where it was (i.e. SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Even my external Time Machine partition is MAC OS Extended (journaled). ![]() My external disks (two 3TB drives, each contain three partitions) are MAC OS Extended (journaled), except for the partition that I use for a bootable backup created by Superduper. For example, if the backup drive is called 'SuperDuper Backup', the command will end up being sudo asr restore -erase -source / -target /Volumes/SuperDuper Backup Press Return. Superduper needed APFS formatting since it contains a boot partition. Drag in the backup drive volume from your Desktop, which will be 'typed' for you. Normally you just go to the drive in TM select it and click restore. sudo asr restore -erase -source / -target followed by a space.
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