CCC vs SuperDuper

[ScottG]

Sorry Dick, but in what way are CCC clones not exact duplicates? I have been using CCC for years, and the clones have always been perfect clones, as far as I can tell.

cheers

scott

[karsen]

1 - Shceduled backups
2 - Incremental backups
3 - According to this review http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/2...e-harmful/ SuperDuper! is well worth the money

CCC doesn’t preserve BSD flags, locked flag, creation date, HFS+ extended attributes, ACLs [uses ditto]

SuperDuper! has perfect preservation of all metadata

[ScottG]

The first post here that actually does describe a difference between CCC and SuperDuper- preservation of metadata. This is interesting and, frankly, scary as I rely quite heavily on CCC. I will have to check just how much of a problem this is. On my main machine at home I am actually running off a cloned drive- I just put my new drive into the tower, used CCC to clone across, and now use the clone. There have been no problems, but as I say I will check to see that I don't have underlying troubles that I have missed.

cheers

scott

[ScottG]

Damnit, karsen is right. No more CCC for me then- most of the metadata that is not copied does not matter much to me, but losing the date created tag is a pretty big deal.

cheers

scott