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by AnonHP 2096 days ago
Can you expand on why you switched to SuperDuper!?

I’m in the opposite camp, having used (the free version of) SuperDuper! in the past but switched to CCC. SuperDuper! seemed to have a simpler interface. I’ve been using CCC since it seemed(to me) to have a better development cycle with quicker support for new releases of the OS. Maybe I was mistaken in thinking that, and maybe Shirt Pocket’s really old style website played a part in that. Recently I looked up the release history of SuperDuper! and found that V3 was released about three years ago. I’ve been trying to figure out if it provides a longer update path (for a particular cost) than CCC.

Note to readers: the seemingly weird punctuation you see in this comment is because the application is called “SuperDuper!” (with the exclamation).

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For me it was sort of the other way around, I had paid for a SuperDuper license years ago, and I went and looked at both it and CCC and saw that SD would work for backing up my new machine (which has Catalina on it out of the box). I agree that ShirtPocket's aesthetic is old skool for sure, but I have no complaints about the actual scheduled backups (well, actually one, which may not be their fault, I have it scheduled to dupe my SSD once a week in the middle of the night, and I notice that my machine won't sleep after that is completed).