SuperDuper

Use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. You can get either at; http://www.versiontracker.com

I just tried to superduper my drive to an ASR-image and it failed with some copy-error on a Java archive of some sort... Back to CCC for now. However I must say that I like the interface of SuperDuper! (although I hate names with !s in them...) and would actually _like_ to use it. But if it fails the first time I try it, it's not for me...

Hi everyone, thanks for the quick replies. I'll try unchecking the 'fix permissions' options and seeing if that helps much. Other than that, I cant think of why it would be so slow. Also I guess I'll just stick to carbon copy since most are saying there is no speed difference between it and superduper.

Using SuperDuper on a G4/1GHz, 1.25GB ram, 60GB drive, 12GB used, took about 28 minutes to clone the drive. Cloned drive boots fine.

I have used both SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner and as far as I can tell there is no noticeable difference in the speed. ...

SuperDuper is supposed very good from the reports I've seen.

I have made a backup of all my apps and other things (not system) which I have on a separate partition to my FW harddrive. Not I cant copy or clone them back as there seems to be a permission problem or something? I have tried to use Batchmod etc. to set the permissions on the FW drive, but all attempts fails. Nor copy, Carbon Copycloner or Superduper can copy them back :(

Copying data off of a drive and then back onto the drive does indeed defrag the drive, and the reason it does is simple. When you copy data off the drive, the data is copied file-by-file. When the file is copied, it is written to the target disk in one chunk. Then it moves on to the next file, which is written as one big chunk adjacent to the previous chunk. Therefore, the...

My power book was severely fragged but I suppose it was because of using Photoshop so much. Since I don't have another drive in my laptop to use as a scratch disk my main drive gets really beaten up. I tried to use Norton but it failed with an error (good thing from what I read above.) I ended up using Techtool 4 even though it took 10 hours. I'm beginning to wonder if...