During the process of upgrading my MacBook hard drive I needed some software to copy my original drive over to my new hard drive. This is no easy task because the new drive needs to be bootable and if possible, a complete replica of my original drive (otherwise it would take hours if not days to restore my system to how I like it).

So in came SuperDuper which is a nifty piece of software which will do just what I wanted. It’s free for the trial version which will let you do most things (no time limit) but if you pay $27.95 then you can unlock the extra features like incremental backups. This might be something I’ll look into soon as I do need a decent backup system (I’m going to look at Time Machine first).

It really was so easy to use SuperDuper though – copying from my original drive to my new drive took about 2.5 hours for 60gb of data – not bad considering it’s doing a thorough job of making sure all metadata is intact (something which just copy and paste definitely wouldn’t achieve). Also, SuperDuper is fully Leopard compatible which is definitely nice to hear.

I’d certainly recommend the use of SuperDuper to anyone .