I tried SuperDuper! long ago (yeah, the applicationâs name has an exclamation mark), but shifted to Carbon Copy Cloner as a paid user since the latter was advancing and keeping up much faster (with the Mac OS changes) and better than SuperDuper! seemed to.
But I like this new design in SuperDuper! 4.
I always wondered about the pricing and upgrades, but this is impressive:
> In all the years SuperDuper has been on the market, weâve never charged for updates and never even raised the price. Thatâs 22 years of free updates.
Talk about value for money for the end user!
> SuperDuper 4 is a totally new version, far more capable than before, and as such, Iâve decided this is going to be its first paid upgrade. Iâve also adjusted the price for inflation since 2004. So itâs still the same bargain it was back when it was first released, but in todayâs dollars.
The price to buy it as a new user is above the price that Carbon Copy Cloner charges (and that has paid upgrades at half the buying price every two or three years). But if this keeps up with Appleâs changes faster, it may be a bargain again. Iâll be trying this and probably buying this soon.
This makes me really happy. Dave has kept the great things about SuperDuper (I especially love âwhatâs going to happen nextâ - wonder why other software doesnât do this) and upgraded its abilities.
Backup sounds simple but it has 1000 edge cases, from idiosyncratic behavior of different drives, to filesystem-specific issues. To keep on top of that while each MacOS release brings its own changes and challenges is a Herculean task.
It means that when I occasionally do a backup I can benefit from all that knowledge and hard won experience. No âit worked with the other drive but not this one, maybe itâs the cable?â type issues. Easiest purchase decision ever.
I tried SuperDuper! long ago (yeah, the applicationâs name has an exclamation mark), but shifted to Carbon Copy Cloner as a paid user since the latter was advancing and keeping up much faster (with the Mac OS changes) and better than SuperDuper! seemed to.
But I like this new design in SuperDuper! 4.
I always wondered about the pricing and upgrades, but this is impressive:
> In all the years SuperDuper has been on the market, weâve never charged for updates and never even raised the price. Thatâs 22 years of free updates.
Talk about value for money for the end user!
> SuperDuper 4 is a totally new version, far more capable than before, and as such, Iâve decided this is going to be its first paid upgrade. Iâve also adjusted the price for inflation since 2004. So itâs still the same bargain it was back when it was first released, but in todayâs dollars.
The price to buy it as a new user is above the price that Carbon Copy Cloner charges (and that has paid upgrades at half the buying price every two or three years). But if this keeps up with Appleâs changes faster, it may be a bargain again. Iâll be trying this and probably buying this soon.
This makes me really happy. Dave has kept the great things about SuperDuper (I especially love âwhatâs going to happen nextâ - wonder why other software doesnât do this) and upgraded its abilities.
Backup sounds simple but it has 1000 edge cases, from idiosyncratic behavior of different drives, to filesystem-specific issues. To keep on top of that while each MacOS release brings its own changes and challenges is a Herculean task.
It means that when I occasionally do a backup I can benefit from all that knowledge and hard won experience. No âit worked with the other drive but not this one, maybe itâs the cable?â type issues. Easiest purchase decision ever.
Apparently, "SuperDuper" is a backup tool for Mac OS. I would really appreciate the article mentioning it.
Oh no, you had to click and read around for an extra 45 seconds instead of everything being spoonfed to you like a baby. Quelle horreur!
It wasn't written for the HN crowd. Someone who is a 'tech person' and uses macOS would know what SuperDuper is.