[X4U] Which program to clone with?

[B. Kuestner]

SuperDuper gets good reviews. Some folks are initially confused by  
the UI, but after a while I have not heard that anybody wasn't  
satisfied with the app. It is not free.

Disk Utility is not free. You have to look around to find the actual  
functionality which might not be available in older versions. It does  
not synchronize, meaning that it always copies all files, even if  
maybe only 1000 files have changed between the latest mirror and your  
current state. That can take time.

CCC is very affordable and seems reliable. I have a few issues with CCC:
- Only requests password but not login name. So you cannot run it as  
a non-admin user and only authorize this one process with admin  
privileges
- CCC requests the password over and over again at initial copy (when  
it isn't syncing)
- You need psync installed. CCC should help to install it, but the  
link in the application is broken. You can get it from Mike Bombich's  
home page
- Sometimes the GUI virtually freezes: switching to the application  
does not bring up the window, interrupting processes (e. g. repairing  
permissions) is not possible

Björn