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From: Mark Conrad on 2 Apr 2010 17:14
In article <010420101513495646%jimsgibson(a)gmail.com>, Jim Gibson
<jimsgibson(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Your friend is wise to ignore your method of testing his backups. By
> making a single backup, then erasing his hard drive, he is putting all
> of his data at risk.
>
> If your friend made some mistake in setting up SuperDuper! and did not
> succeed in making a proper backup, your method of testing will ensure
> that his entire disk is wiped out!

Correct, and my friend would never rely on SuperDuper! again,
which is as it should be.



> ...your method of testing will ensure
> that his entire disk is wiped out!

Except his documents, photos, bank-records, music, etc which
he hopefully has enough sense to save ahead-of-time.

Wiping out one's entire disk is not the end of the world, in fact
sometimes I wipe out my disk for fun.

Just did so yesterday, as a matter of fact. My disk had a full
week of my loading up and configuring various app's and util's,
both on its OS X partition, and on its Vista partition.

....and I wiped it out, the entire disk, deliberately.


My reason was to test Terminals dd backup/restore "program"
that I had just finished creating, to see if it could restore the
entire disk.

The Terminal dd restore code worked just fine, as I expected,
even though it was the very first time I put it to the test
on this particular Mac.

If the backup/restore code had not worked, I would have had to
reload everything from scratch, a full week of work.



> While it is good to test backups, you should try restoring to
> a _third_ disk and booting off of that,
> without erasing the original.

That would not work, because my friend has a Boot Camp created
Vista partition on his Mac.

As soon as he tried to boot off the "third" disk, Vista would sense
the hardware change and refuse to work.

Moot point in any case, because SuperDuper! is not capable
of handling a Boot Camp created Windows partition, on a Mac.

Mark-
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