Using the awesome powers of SuperDuper! for backups

A while ago i have bought a license of SuperDuper!. An awesome application that can copy entire hard disks, make a clone, to another. This can be done to quickly move files but also to make a rock solid bootable backup.

I have used this app for a while on my iMac and now i entrust my server to it. I have a few schedules running there. Yes SuperDuper! also does scheduled copies.
Every monday, wednesday and friday the main system disk is cloned to the second disk in the computer and every Tuesday and Thursday the system disk is cloned into a restorable disk image which is stored on an external drive.

SuperDuper is also very handy to copy disk images to a hard disk or thumb drive to take the actual DVD or image out of the equation. Imagine, installing OS X from a USB 8GB thumb drive. It’s like 4x faster than from the DVD.

So even if my server breaks down, say the hard disk breaks. I could simply replace that disk. Boot up from the other disk and perhaps restore the backup in the image if that one is newer. And be on my way fixing the server. Simply cloning the disk back to the newly placed hard disk. Amazing!