[nosirrah]

Before I upgraded to the Big White Cat I made a final TM update and SD smart update. Both go on the same partition. Then I got excited and let the BWC free. THEN I realised that as soon as I did a new SD backup, I would no longer have a backup of final Leo. (TM didn't seem so bad - if it updated.)

I tried to do a SD back-up of the whole TM partition to a new one. But after 2+ hrs it was only 1/7th of the way. That seemed a bit excessive. Then I tried a Disk Utility Restore whose initial estimate was 3 hrs, but at that time it was stuck in the early reaches of backups.backupdb (and saying 1 min to go).

Is the way I tried to use SD correct, or is there something else I don't now?

Or, given that bus.budb has problems (and I don't mind losing it - it is just a recent incarnation) how do I save the final SD Leo clone? Can I just delete bs.bdb and then use SD on its own clone?