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SmartBackup 4.6
Released 27.03.2026
System Requirements: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, Supports macOS 26 Tahoe.

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New
  • New Backup option to skip and ignore dataless files when not downloaded (for example iCloud files that have been removed from this Mac), and not trigger a download.
Improvements
  • Purging of deleted/changed archives is now performed as the first step to free up space before backup
  • Detects volume unmount/mount and open/closes currently selected destination if affected automatically
  • Adding source open panel how has option to show hidden files
  • Displays current file copy throughput when files are copying
Changes
  • Legacy HFS system volume clone support has been removed
Bugfixes
  • Performs extra utimes change for smbfs (in addition to exfat) to solve issues with utime transfer on certain smb servers, for example some Synology NAS
  • Updates destination free size display on finish/cancel backup
  • Fixes crash that sometimes occurred when a backup was cancelled due to the destination running out of space
  • Background items (for automation) display correctly with App Icon in System Settings
Note: It is recommended to add the App to System-Preferences -> Security&Privacy -> Full Disk Access after installing it in the Applications folder.
 
Previous Versions and Release Notes
SmartBackup 4.5

Released 14.07.2025
System Requirements: macOS 11 or later, Supports macOS 26 Tahoe.

New
  • Compatibility with macOS 26 Tahoe
  • Modernised icon
Bugfixes
  • Fixes issue where if "comparing Tags" is enabled, XATTR (file flag) comparison could flag files that have the same extended attributes, as having different extended attributes and lead to a unnecessary file copy on ACFS (Xsan) and possibly other non Apple file systems
  • German and French localisation fixes

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SmartBackup 4.4.1

Released 25.02.2024
System Requirements: macOS 10.13 or later, Supports macOS 14 Sonoma and Apple Silicon.

New in 4.4.1:
  • Works around an issue of macOS 14 (Sonoma) where on ExFat filesystems modification date cloning would fail.

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SmartBackup v4.4

Released 22.10.2023
System Requirements: macOS 10.13 or later, Supports macOS 14 Sonoma and Apple Silicon.

New in 4.4:
  • Support for Sonoma
  • Bugfixes
Download SmartBackup 4.4