On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Ed Gould wrote: >> I want to take a volume and copy it onto a volume that already has >> data. The default is to *ERASE* the receiving volume (you got that >> right). This might be good in a test environment to erase the data >> but to make it mandatory? I have live (good data) on my back up >> volume would you want to erase all of you good backup data? I >> would hope not. I know that SuperDuper! can do this. I don't know if the unregistered version has this capability though. Open SuperDuper!, go to the Help menu, choose User Guide, scroll down to: "Storing a backup alongside other files on a destination drive" ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html ___________________________________________