Creating a Sandbox
Sandbox — system recovery without downtime!
Back in the days before OS X, it was relatively easy to back up the “System
Folder”. It wasn’t that large, really, and could be copied to another drive or
even burned to a CD. If anything went wrong – a bad extension, corrupted
preferences – you could restore the System Folder and get back to work
relatively easily and painlessly.
With the advent of OS X, the system itself became more complex. While it’s
much more stable, it’s also much more difficult to preserve a working
version as a “checkpoint” – and when things go wrong, it’s not nearly as
easy to restore a working environment.
A SuperDuper Sandbox is the solution to this problem.
A
Sandbox is a bootable copy of your system, stored on another hard drive
or partition, that
shares your personal documents and data with the
original. In the past, you might have stored this copy away in a drawer as a
backup. With SuperDuper, you actually
use the Sandbox as your startup
volume.
You can safely install any system updates, drivers or programs in the
Sandbox, without worrying about what might happen to your system. If
anything goes wrong, you can simply start up from the original system.
SuperDuper has preserved it in its original, pre-disaster state – but all your
new and changed personal documents are totally up to date.
Within
minutes, you’re up and running again – without having to go through a
difficult and time-consuming restore process.
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