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SuperDuper! Changelog

What's new in SuperDuper! 3.7.5

Feb 26, 2023
  • Bug Fixes:
  • API differences between earlier and later OS versions caused some attribute mismatches; fixed in this version.

New in SuperDuper! 3.7.4 (Feb 26, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Arrgh. A typo that compiled somehow, and passed internal tests, caused issues in some situations, because of course. Fixed.

New in SuperDuper! 3.7.3 (Feb 26, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed intermittent crash at start of scheduled copies
  • Worked around intermittent early termination on some systems (typically after copy but before cleanup)

New in SuperDuper! 3.7.2 (Dec 19, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Corrected launch Apple Event behavior; shouldn’t load settings

New in SuperDuper! 3.7.1 (Dec 16, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Worked around post-replication mount failures on some systems
  • Ventura “startup item” prompts now use the SuperDuper! name
  • Upgrade installer no longer prompts for Rosetta

New in SuperDuper! 3.7 (Oct 24, 2022)

  • Enhancements:
  • Ventura compatibility, While the backup will be configured for boot, Apple bugs may cause startup to be unsuccessful (although restoration is still possible). See the blog for the latest information.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Cloud drive storage handling improvements
  • Worked around Ventura bless issues
  • Improved asr state tracking
  • Adjusted Full Disk Access helpers for Ventura redesign

New in SuperDuper! 3.6.2 (Jun 1, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Worked around bless hang on Apple Silicon in 12.14

New in SuperDuper! 3.2.4 (Nov 15, 2018)

  • Enhancements:
  • Missing Volume Support for scheduled copies. You can now tell us that you don’t want an error when a drive is missing when a schedule runs.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Worked around -1708/-1701/-1712 errors, improving automated copies
  • Sorts file columns in the script editor

New in SuperDuper! 3.2.3 (Oct 28, 2018)

  • Enhancements:
  • Smart Wake for scheduled copies. Our automatic wake is now smart enough to not wake a Mac that’s already awake, ensuring the screen doesn’t turn on if it doesn’t need to.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Works around bad symlinks caused by APFS conversion (typically of Fusion drives)
  • Fixes Summer Time/DST CPU/Memory problem in time-based schedules
  • Fixes timeout problems during some schedules
  • Works around 10.12 power manager wake events tag bug

New in SuperDuper! 3.2.2 (Oct 10, 2018)

  • Enhancements:
  • Automatic Wake for scheduled copies. No matter how many schedules you may have, and no matter how complex the number of events, SuperDuper! will automatically wake the system before it’s time for the copy to start, eliminating the need to set one manually (and allowing more than one time, since you can only have a single wake in the Energy Saver preference pane).
  • Smart Delete improvements for extremely full drives
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Works around problems with various unsigned SATSMART drivers, distributed with many SSDs and DriveDX, that weren’t fully Mojave compatible and caused errors in Disk Utility

New in SuperDuper! 3.2.1 Build 114 (Sep 27, 2018)

  • Enhancements:
  • Smart Delete provides additional statistics
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Scheduled copies window now draws properly on Yosemite (10.10)
  • Drive names with ‘ no longer cause scheduling errors

New in SuperDuper! 3.2 Build 113 (Sep 25, 2018)

  • Enhancements:
  • Full Mojave support
  • Smart Delete works hand-in-hand with Smart Update to avoid disk full errors
  • Full Disk Access & Automation prompting
  • Automatic mounting of source and destination volumes during schedules, including encrypted ones
  • Completely rewritten scheduling
  • Service to automatically run settings selected in Finder
  • User accessible command-line tool that runs settings automatically

New in SuperDuper! 3.1.7 Build 111 (May 18, 2018)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Drives now eject on quit more reliably
  • Destination pop-up no longer goes blank in some situations when the drive is erased
  • Improved error handling for read only disk image locations
  • Further verifies application and helper integrity to fix a potential security exploit (thanks to Thomas Chauchefoin for the report)

New in SuperDuper! 3.1.6 Build 109 (May 4, 2018)

  • Bug Fix:
  • Corrects a rare crash on launch.

New in SuperDuper! 3.1.5 Build 108 (Apr 28, 2018)

  • Enhancements & Bug Fixes:
  • Allows multiple Scheduled Copies to run from the Scheduled Copies window with one click
  • Much more reliable backup when the Mac is sleeping; be sure to set a wake event in the Energy Saver preference pane for the same time as the backup
  • Works around 10.13.4 inability to prebind earlier OS versions (and improved behavior when trying to copy later versions. too)
  • Scheduled Copy “progress spinners” no longer spin forever in some edge cases
  • Works around a system “pipe” problem that caused some crashes
  • Disables “spell checker” for the log window and improves its behavior when a copy is in progress
  • Fixes a problem that could occur if a file was deleted while it was being copied

New in SuperDuper! 3.1.4 Build 106 (Feb 1, 2018)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Works around missing drive identification information in some configurations

New in SuperDuper! 3.1.3 Build 105 (Feb 1, 2018)

  • Enhancements & Bug Fixes:
  • Locked APFS & CS volumes are unlocked before scheduled copies
  • Improved status progress bar color / visibility
  • All of SuperDuper is now 64-bit
  • A bunch of under-the-hood improvements

New in SuperDuper! 3.1.2 Build 104 (Jan 13, 2018)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes snapshot date parsing in some regions
  • Changes “Stop Copying” sheet to make it less awful
  • Properly saves default settings in all cases
  • Renamed drives now properly reflected in the UI
  • Stop button no longer beeps on 2nd stop
  • Drives with # in their name can now be erased

New in SuperDuper! 3.1.1 Build 103 (Dec 10, 2017)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Ignores “dataless” snapshots.

New in SuperDuper! 3.1 Build 102 (Dec 9, 2017)

  • Enhancements & Bug Fixes:
  • Select and copy or restore from snapshots
  • Image backups now automatically mount the host volume
  • Holds system awake more aggressively during schedule
  • Assorted other tweaks and fixes

New in SuperDuper! 3.0.1 Build 101 (Nov 20, 2017)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Compatibility with Samsung SMART driver
  • Settings conversion related quit issues
  • More reliable sleep prevention during copy
  • Handles encrypted destination volumes on 10.12
  • Corrected Options page drawing on 10.10
  • Restored 10.9 support

New in SuperDuper! 3.0 Build 100 (Nov 9, 2017)

  • Enhancements & Bug Fixes:
  • Official macOS High Sierra (10.13) HFS+/Mac OS Extended compatibility, including APFS
  • Snapshot support for APFS boot volumes
  • Assorted other tweaks and fixes

New in SuperDuper! 3.0 Build 99.2 Beta 2 (Oct 2, 2017)

  • Enhancements & Bug Fixes:
  • Official macOS High Sierra (10.13) HFS+/Mac OS Extended compatibility, including APFS (http://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog)
  • Snapshot support for APFS boot volumes
  • Assorted other tweaks and fixes

New in SuperDuper! 3.0 Build 99.1 Beta 1 (Sep 25, 2017)

  • APFS support.

New in SuperDuper! 2.9.2 Build 99 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Enhancements & Bug Fixes:
  • Official macOS High Sierra (10.13) HFS+/Mac OS Extended compatibility (APFS coming soon, see http://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog)
  • Work around “Could not enable permissions” problem caused by corrupt /var/db/volinfo.database files
  • Ignore “operation not permitted” errors caused by tightened SIP in High Sierra
  • Improved schedule day display handling for non-English languages
  • Added Little Snitch “internet access policy” file
  • Assorted other tweaks and fixes

New in SuperDuper! 2.9.1 Build 98 (Sep 12, 2016)

  • Enhancements and bug fixes:
  • Official macOS Sierra (10.12) compatibility
  • Improve (and speed up) backup boot in some edge case scenarios
  • Work around "Busy image" cases when doing read-only conversion
  • Speed up quit when shutting down or restarting

New in SuperDuper! 2.9 Build 97 (Sep 1, 2016)

  • Mac OS X El Capitan compatibility. Note that you must delete and recreate your schedules if they’re from 2.7.5 or earlier.
  • Faster Startup. The rare “beachballing” issue at startup is fixed.
  • UI Improvements. Various little resizing glitches should be resolved.
  • Antivirus Program Compatibility. SuperDuper will now ignore (and log) “permission denied” errors from Antivirus programs.
  • Various other fixes and improvements. You know the drill.
  • Enhancements and bug fixes:
  • Improved bootability of RAID clones
  • Add application preference to ignore copy errors induced by Antivirus programs
  • Schedules now enable Backup on connect for SoftRAID volumes
  • Restored dyld cache rebuild after copy for 10.8 and later
  • The Mac App Store will now operate properly when running from a Sandbox
  • Scheduled Copies window sort order is preserved between launches
  • Disk Image Save Panel defaults to Sparse Bundle image type
  • Hard linked files made invalid in 10.10.3 will be now be copied instead of failing due to a link permission error
  • Fixed the long-standing upgrade animation bug that prevented the full update text from being visible (note: you won't experience the fix until the next auto upgrade)
  • Fixed intermittent beachballs during launch
  • Fixed numerous UI issues/edge-cases
  • Eliminated exceptions that occasionally caused crashes during launch

New in SuperDuper! 2.8 Build 96 (Sep 16, 2015)

  • Compatible with OS X 10.7 (Lion) to 10.11 (El Capitan) and includes a number of improvements, including:
  • Mac OS X El Capitan compatibility
  • Various other fixes and improvements
  • El Capitan "rootless security" and volume permissions support.
  • Improved scheduling

New in SuperDuper! 2.7.5 Build 95 (Nov 21, 2014)

  • Significantly faster copying
  • Even smarter Smart Updates, with finer-grained copying
  • Automatically excludes (and preserves) the Backblaze “.bzvol” folder
  • Upgrade animation error fixed (so the next update announcement will be visible for those who aren’t seeing it now), Rocky! This time for sure!
  • Various other fixes and improvements
  • Enhancements & Bug Fixes - Fixes issue with “looping symlinks” in some app frameworks (MDRP, FileMaker Deluxe Pro, iPhoto Library Manager 2, TextMate)

New in SuperDuper! 2.7.3 (Oct 17, 2014)

  • Now Yosemite compatible!
  • This version of SuperDuper! is compatible with OS X 10.6 to 10.10 and includes a number of new features, including:
  • Yosemite support
  • Signed with new v2 certificates
  • EA change detection improvements
  • “Backup on Connect” fix for drives that have the word “Backup” in them (previously available at the Shirt Pocket blog)
  • Various other improvements

New in SuperDuper! 2.7.2 (Feb 24, 2014)

  • Mac OS X Mavericks support
  • The return of "automatic mount and eject"
  • Improved copy speed
  • Improved Growl support
  • Helpful info and diagnostics
  • Various other changes

New in SuperDuper! 2.7.1 (Sep 5, 2012)

  • Mac OS X Mountain Lion support
  • Gatekeeper Compatibility
  • Improved copy speed
  • Improved error detection and handling
  • Mid-file copy status updates for large files
  • Mac App Store Growl support
  • Many other changes

New in SuperDuper! 2.7 (Jul 27, 2012)

  • Mac OS X Mountain Lion support
  • Gatekeeper Compatibility
  • Improved copy speed
  • Improved error detection and handling
  • Mid-file copy status updates for large files
  • Mac App Store Growl support
  • Many other changes

New in SuperDuper! 2.6.4 (Jul 17, 2011)

  • SuperDuper now prevents the destination from being manually ejected during copy
  • Proper error message now issued when a destination ejects itself due to hardware errors
  • Resolved AppleScript dictionary compatibility issues under 10.4 that prevented scheduled copies and some shutdown actions from running
  • Overly aggressive copy verification under Leopard no longer cause copies to fail on highly active files
  • Setting permissions on read-only disk images no longer fail when there are bad OSAXen installed
  • Launchpad and Mission Control are now shared for Sandboxes
  • Sandbox script syntax error corrected

New in SuperDuper! 2.6.2 (Oct 13, 2009)

  • Significant copy speed improvements
  • Preserves compression when copying
  • Fixed extra copying under Snow Leopard
  • Scheduled copies in old format are now disabled and we prompt the user to recreate
  • Scheduled copies work on Japanese systems and with more Unicode/composed character drive names
  • Backup-on-mount should work on 10.4.11
  • Adjusted SDUtil path to improve robustness when application is moved (now symlinked/refreshed)
  • Minor copy tweaks
  • Reworked SL status to use 1000B = 1MB, 1024B = MiB for Leopard and earlier.
  • Fixed crontab escaping if user has tcsh as their default shell
  • Fixed issues with explicit Spotlight disable/enable under 10.5 or later.

New in SuperDuper! 2.6.1 (Aug 30, 2009)

  • Adds great new features like Backup on Connect, Eject after Copy, Sparse Bundle support, and still lets you store a bootable backup alongside Time Machine backups, copy Time Machine backups to other drives, run scheduled copies on demand.
  • Polished and improved many other aspects as well.

New in SuperDuper! 2.6 (Aug 28, 2009)

  • Full Snow Leopard support.
  • "Backup on connect" - optional backup when a drive is attached.
  • Backup drive can be ejected at end of copy.
  • Support for Sparse Bundle image type.
  • PGP Whole Disk Encryption support for source and destination.
  • Performance and many other improvements.

New in SuperDuper! 2.5 (Feb 5, 2008)

  • Complete OS X 10.5 (Leopard) compatibility including bootable Leopard backups
  • You can now store a bootable backup side-by-side with a Time Machine backup on a single volume
  • The ability to copy Time Machine backup volumes to other drives when you need more space (or want to back up your archived data)
  • A "Run Now" button runs Scheduled Copies on demand
  • Automatic preservation of any custom icon on the destination volume
  • Improved post-registration text to inform users how to use Smart Update
  • Expos�, Time Machine, Spaces and Front Row are now copied on Leopard Sandboxes
  • Updated Backup copy scripts to ignore Google Desktop Index Files and iTunes temporary files
  • More robust handling of delayed re-mounts after a volume has been erased
  • Added a new copy script "Restore - all files" that will restore everything except a Time Machine archive if it exists on the source.
  • The WGTH text now describes the effect of the selected options upon Time Machine backups
  • SuperDuper! will repair volinfo databases that contain blanks lines erroneously inserted by the Apple Setup Assistant
  • Improved Growl error reporting for scheduled copies
  • Significant improvements to ACL and permissions cloning
  • Improved handling of Spotlight indexing on the target volume
  • Custom volume icons and file system events are preserved on the target volume
  • Resolved a bug that caused a crash during auto upgrade on some Intel Macs
  • The dock icon will bounce if the copy fails
  • Improved the etched text rendering under Leopard
  • Smart Update will copy files with name case changes
  • Locked symlinks are properly copied during Smart Update
  • Immutable symlinks are properly copied during Smart Update