Upgraded Super Duper... now super slow

[rz]

I just upgraded to the new Super Duper, which was "updated" for compatibility with Yosemite. I'm still on Mavericks. I usually backup my startup drive once a week. Takes around 15 minutes. Had been away and missed a few weeks, and when I backed up last week, it took around 45 minutes. So it's been a week and I'm backing it up. I figured it would take around 15 minutes.

It's been going for over 90 minutes now, and is only about 20% done. It says it's copied over 260,000 files, which I think is outrageous since it's set to do a smart update (only copies files which have changed). I can't believe that many files have changed in less than a week. If you use Super Duper, you may wish to hold off on upgrading, especially if you haven't upgraded to Yosemite.

[space-time]

CCC

Carbon Copy Cloner

Camel Camel Camel

[Article Accelerator]

Yep, Carbon Copy Cloner is Super Gooder. So are the Bombich folks.

[IronMac]

Contact the developer. He is extremely responsive!!!

[sekker]

CCC seems fine on my iMac running 10.10 and v 4 of this terrific utility. First 30 days are free, and it has a new interface. I'd contact the SD developer and then try CCC in the meantime to get you going with backups - don't stop good data protection practices due to a trivial technical glitch.

[rz]

Here's the final report. It took 4 hours and 30 minutes to copy 831,650 files. There's no way in hell that that many files changed in less than a week. I may go back to CCC.

[GGD]

rz wrote:
Here's the final report. It took 4 hours and 30 minutes to copy 831,650 files. There's no way in hell that that many files changed in less than a week. I may go back to CCC.

How many total files did it say there were, did it say that it copied fewer than the total on the drive? Was it acting like it did a full backup rather than a Smart Update?

Now, do it a second time, make sure that it's really set for Smart Update, and see if it's really a persistent problem with SuperDuper, or a one-time event.

[rz]

There were a total of just over 1.3 million files so it didn't copy them all. At the 90 minute mark, I noticed it said about half the files it had examined were already up to date, and I noticed it said it was doing a smart copy, so I don't think it copied everything. I have 4 other drives I backup, most change very little. Smart backups usually take about a minute. I'll check them next.

[Kramerica]

Super Duper is great. If the new one has a bug that is slowing it down, I expect it will be fixed very soon.

[deckeda]

Yes, do it again. My guess is something triggered more files being different than what you changed through normal use. Send he dev the log file and he may know more.