Continuing our previous coverage of Retrospect 5 (with one item on Retrospect 4): Duplicate backup not bootable? Using the Duplicate option in the Preview version of Retrospect 5, we backed up an ...

The latest installment in the story of how bootable Mac backups will eventually disappear started with a blog post by Shirt Pocket Software’s Dave Nanian. In it, he explained why SuperDuper could no ...

The developer of SuperDuper! says what they think is a bug in macOS Sequoia 15.2 has inadvertently broken how the app can create bootable backups — however, it may not be accidental at all. It's some ...

Apple's latest macOS Sequoia 15.2 update has introduced a critical bug that prevents the popular backup utility SuperDuper from creating bootable backups, according to the app's chief developer, Shirt ...

Mac utility app SuperDuper! will no longer always fail to make a bootable backup because of a bug in macOS Sequoia — but Apple's fix doesn't remove all problems. Nanian thought the change might have ...

The ongoing fuss surrounding the bug in Apple’s asr tool that is breaking bootable backups made with Carbon Copy Cloner, ChronoSync, and SuperDuper caused me to revisit my backup recommendations (see ...

Well, I want to create multiple copies of the bootable backup, with a time constraint. It's well known to me that OS X seems to be slower at copying many small files than a few large ones, so I'm ...

Is there any reason to try to have a bootable clone for backup purposes these days? Or if the internal SSD fails, is the computer likely to be unbootable anyway? Drives are backed up with 3-2-1 ...

The other common alternative is to create a bootable (mirrored or cloned) copy of an existing bootable drive using backup software (such as Retrospect, DataBackup or SuperDuper!). In either case, you ...