![]() ![]() Note also that USB drives do not allow booting Power PC based Macintoshes under any version of Mac OS X: this is not a SuperDuper! limitation, but one of the OS. Old-time Mac users know this already, but it may be useful especially for those who are discovering vintage PowerPC Macs only now: SuperDuper’s developer offers another important reminder. SuperDuper! only copies HFS+ (Mac-native/Mac OS Extended) volumes. One thing worth quoting from SuperDuper’s page is this bit: Please note that SuperDuper! is not designed to back up to CDs, DVDs or Tape, and needs a location (other than the boot volume) to store the backup – typically a volume on an internal or external (FireWire) drive. There are versions for Mac OS X Leopard, Tiger, Panther and even Jaguar. The links to download older versions of the app are provided in the sidebar of the page I’ve linked to. I like its interface because it really guides you every step of the way and explains what the app will do according to the options you choose. SuperDuper! - I have actually used SuperDuper! and it was extremely helpful in a few key circumstances.You can download version 3.4.7, which is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard from this download page. And this is just one of the many features this application offers. Carbon Copy Cloner - A great tool to clone disks and make bootable backup copies of them.I never interfered, nor tinkered with it, and never had a problem. My only bit of advice: let Time Machine do its job, no matter how long it takes. Considering a few horror stories I’ve heard, I may have been lucky. ![]() I started using it since I upgraded to Leopard and I’ve never lost a backup. If you’re running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, don’t forget that a basic backup tool is built in the system itself: Time Machine.Backup tools for PowerPC Macs running Mac OS X (and Mac OS 9.2.2) The majority of them have an impeccable reputation, though, so I guess they’ll be useful to you. For this article I thought I could gather a few resources and reading material related to the essential practice of backing up data.Ī necessary preamble: up to the advent of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in October 2007, my personal backup strategy was a selective, manual backup of all the data I considered vital, so I never really used any tool to perform automated backups, therefore I don’t have any real direct experience with some of the applications mentioned below. As of late, I’ve been suggesting a few great applications that are still available for PowerPC Macs (where by ‘PowerPC Macs’ I generally mean ‘PowerPC G3/G4/G5 Macs running Mac OS X’). ![]()
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