I just want to make sure it's fine to back up two hard drives to two partitions on a single drive at the same time. I'm religious about backing everything up (safety first, as they say). I also have another external drive for Time Machine. If my Media drive dies, I like having a backup ready to go without needing to restore it first. If my Mac hard drive dies, I like having a bootable backup ready to go in an instant without needing to restore it first. I already have an external 3TB drive partitioned for backups. Select your Macintosh HD in the left menu, select your new firewire drive in the right one, select backup all files. With SuperDuper, can I schedule both to run at the same time?Īlso: Since my Mac and Media drives are SSD but my backup drive is a partitioned HDD, is there anything I should be careful of when I format the backup drive?ĮDIT: I'm specifically asking about backing up multiple hard drives to separate partitions on a single drive. I've been backing up one drive M/W/F and the other T/T/S, but I'd like to switch to backing both drives up daily.

Using SuperDuper, what's the proper way to back up two separate drives to partitions on a single external drive? Can I back up my Mac HD and my Media HD at the same time? It'll be running automatically in the middle of the night, so speed isn't a concern.

One of its benefits is creating a bootable clone, so in the case of any trouble, you can connect the backup drive, hold Option/Alt and boot your alternative system. Time Machine HD, (4TB, but this drive isn't relevant for my question). SuperDuper is one of my favourite backup applications for the Mac, and I use it as part of my backup and recovery strategy.Daily Backup HD (3TB HDD, partitioned into a 2TB Daily Backup Mac HD, a 500GB Daily Backup Media HD, and an irrelevant 500GB Spare HD).

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