{"id":2286,"date":"2010-03-15T20:21:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T00:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2016-07-07T09:41:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:41:24","slug":"an-ode-to-diskwarrior-superduper-and-dropbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/15\/an-ode-to-diskwarrior-superduper-and-dropbox\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2010\/03\/ode_to_diskwarrior_superduper_dropbox\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2010\/03\/ode_to_diskwarrior_superduper_dropbox\"><p> Three weeks ago the hard drive in my MacBook Pro went bad. So far as I can tell, I didn&rsquo;t lose a single byte of data. Here&rsquo;s how.\r\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>DiskWarrior and SuperDuper are indeed fantastic. Dropbox is in many ways very well done. Why can&rsquo;t iDisk work like that? Still, I wish there were an option to operate Dropbox in non-haxie mode, where it didn&rsquo;t load its code into the Finder. And I think that the company has been <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/26\/dropbox\/\">irresponsible<\/a> with their users&rsquo; resource forks and metadata (and also with disclosing which parts of the files they sync). However, there is now a <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.dropbox.com\/topic.php?id=17226&amp;replies=188\">beta version<\/a> that addresses these issues, so hopefully they&rsquo;ll soon be a thing of the past.<\/p>\r\n<p>Gruber potentially had a problem because his SuperDuper clone was over 10 days old, since he had been out of town. His solution: back up important files constantly to Dropbox. My solution: travel with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/product\/product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149090\">portable clone drive<\/a> and back up important files to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crashplan.com\">CrashPlan<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: Three weeks ago the hard drive in my MacBook Pro went bad. So far as I can tell, I didn&rsquo;t lose a single byte of data. Here&rsquo;s how. DiskWarrior and SuperDuper are indeed fantastic. Dropbox is in many ways very well done. Why can&rsquo;t iDisk work like that? Still, I wish there were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15086,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions\/15086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}