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Re: dmg; SuperDuper vs Disk Utility

From nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: dmg; SuperDuper vs Disk Utility
Date 2013-12-24 15:05 -0500
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In article <SalmonEgg-347A7C.09272024122013@news80.forteinc.com>,
Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> As I understand it, SuperDuper allows cloning a disk image, but Apple's 
> Disk Utility allows you to do the same thing. What is the relative 
> advantage/disadvantage of these apps?

superduper can do an incremental clone, copying only changed files.

it's *much* faster.

another option is carbon copy cloner. it has a few more features but
it's slower, unless you're cloning the entire drive and ccc can do a
block copy (it can't always).

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dmg; SuperDuper vs Disk Utility Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-12-24 09:27 -0800
  Re: dmg; SuperDuper vs Disk Utility Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2013-12-24 17:38 +0000
    Re: dmg; SuperDuper vs Disk Utility me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-12-24 17:48 +0000
    Re: dmg; SuperDuper vs Disk Utility nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-24 15:05 -0500
  Re: dmg; SuperDuper vs Disk Utility nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-24 15:05 -0500
  Re: dmg; SuperDuper vs Disk Utility Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-24 20:12 +0000
  Re: dmg; SuperDuper vs Disk Utility Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-24 19:08 -0800

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