I personally use Time Machine for backing up at home. Â With a single 500 Gb drive, I can backup virtually everything on my desktop system, except for the DVR collection… Â Generally for months…
But, recently, I had an issue at work. Â We have several Time Capsules that have had wireless failures, and needed to have the Time Machine backups copied off & placed on another hard drive.
But the Finder can’t do this. Â Disk Imaging via Disk Utility, might be able to… Â But then I remembered that SuperDuper! from Shirt Pocket software offers this ability, and even advertises it.
The free version of SuperDuper! is almost everything that you would need. Â It can perform complete backups, user file backups, Shared files only, or restores… Â The advanced features require registration/payment. Â They consist of Smart updates (differential/incremental backups), Copying newer files, and copying different files to the backup…
Overall, it was virtually painless in migrating the Time Machine backups to the new drive, and I highly recommend looking at SuperDuper! as a supplement to your Time Machine Backups… Â And the price is right, the cost to register is only $27.95.