Re: does SuperDuper run in Yosemite?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: does SuperDuper run in Yosemite?
Date	2014-08-17 03:23 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2014-08-17, David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>
> The recovery partition has four prominent features:
>
> - Restore from a Time Machine backup
> - Reinstall OS X (via download from Apple)
> - Run a limited version of Safari ("Get Help Online")
> - Run Disk Utility
>
> There are other features which aren't quite so obvious:
>
> - Firmware password utility
> - Network utility
> - Terminal, through which several command line tools are available
> - Reset password utility (via Terminal: resetpassword)
>
> All of the above are also accessible via a bootable installer for the
> appropriate OS X version.
>
> The recovery partition is a required component if you want to enable
> FileVault 2 encryption on the main partition, since the system needs to
> partly boot via the recovery partition to get to the login prompt and
> unlock the main partition. This is a case where a bootable installer
> cannot be used as a substitute.

So it is, in fact, quite useful, IMO.

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  Re: does SuperDuper run in Yosemite? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-08-09 16:16 -0400
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