APC Australia

how to Back up your Mac with SuperDuper

-

1 THE SOURCE IS WITH YOU

To set up your first backup, you need to select a ‘source’ and a ‘destinatio­n’. The source is your Mac’s hard drive, so select that in the ‘Copy’ menu. Here, the destinatio­n is an external LaCie drive, which we select in the ‘To’ menu.

4 GET SMART

Click on the During Copy menu to modify the backup process. The best option here is Smart Update, which will keep your last backup, and only copy new files from your Mac, or remove files that have been deleted recently.

7 PICK AND CHOOSE

Like Time Machine, SuperDuper allows you to exclude individual files and folders from your backups. The program’s interface gets a bit fiddly here, but you start by clicking the Using menu and then selecting New Copy Script.

2 BACKUP BASICS

There are a number of backup options available. The main one is ‘Backup – all files’, which copies the entire macOS itself, and all your personal files. Alternativ­ely, ‘Backup – user files’ just copies your Home folder.

5 SCHEDULED BACKUPS

The free version of SuperDuper allows you to perform manual backups by clicking Copy Now. But it’s worth buying SuperDuper for the ability to schedule automatic backups that repeat every day or every week.

8 CUSTOM BACKUPS

The Script window enables you to locate files and folders, and then tell SuperDuper to ‘ignore’ them during the backup. You can also add files or folders to create custom backups that concentrat­e on a specific group of files.

3 OTHER OPTIONS

You can click Options to fine-tune the backup process. By default, SuperDuper will erase your backup drive each time, and then make a completely new backup. That can take time though, so let’s look at some other options.

6 OVER AND OUT

You can also tell SuperDuper what to do when it’s finished backing up. You can tell it to eject your backup drive, or to shut your Mac down automatica­lly so that you don’t have to wait around for the backup to finish.

9 FIND YOUR FILES

The backup on your external drive is an exact duplicate of the files and folders on your Mac, so if you delete any files by accident you can simply find them on the backup drive and copy them onto your Mac again.

 ??  ??
 ??  ??
 ??  ??
 ??  ??
 ??  ??
 ??  ??
 ??  ??

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from Australia