Backup that Mac
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- tomkat0
I use DVD-RAM for important stuff.
- sparker0
pardon my dumb, 'mr. obvious' question...but why in the hell would someone who owns a mac *buy* backup software???
unix 101, take your seat kids...mac >= unix. unix's have cron. unix's have rsync. unix's have shell (probably a form of bash).
it would take 5 minutes to either configure rsync to run daily, weekly or montly. and/or take 15 and write a shell script that runs on cron to back stuff up.
behold, i give you power of unix. don't pay for backup software...and certainly don't use some crappy shareware app.
you can write a script or configure rsync to backup anything...a specific file, directory or the entire partition.
- Rand0
maxtor 250 external one-touch here. you press a button on the front and it backs up what's new
- thenuge0
i just got one of those porsche lacie's from cdw. it kicks ass
- ribit0
Retrospect is really the standard.
You want to do scheduled incremental Backup. In addition to only backing up changed files, it is also keeping every version ever backed up, so you can track back to earlier versions of files if you need to.(and retrieve the state of a file from any given date, whether the file had changed on that date or not).
Sometimes you'll want to do a scheduled Duplicate instead of backup. I do a daily scheduled duplicate of the state of the Microsoft Office mail database from my laptop(not an incremental Backup as it would store every version of the file which changed every day, and the file is already over a GB). (Why does Microsoft have to put all the bloody mail in one file?!)
- airey0
we use Retrospect on the Xserve everynight (3 external drives covering Mon/Wed, Tue/Thur, Fri) and it's great. you can specifiy what you want backed up so even emails could be done (backing up the user folder should do that i guess?).
- nice-land0
Thanks all for the reminder. I just got the 250 lacie for $189 on macmall.
https://www.macmall.com/macmall/…
Good to meet you the other day, Don.
- designerror0
Not a bad find Bon!
http://www.dantz.com/en/products…i think i'm gonna try it out..
- BZZZP0
for all my spam, i use one of these:
http://www.peripheralstorage.com…
but you have to max it out otherwise you might miss an important kenyan penis hair growth co-ed.
- Carty0
but emails?
- Donvitoviti0
ya.. i would say lacie is the best.
It is pretty easy to just have your work in 1 folder.. and folders under that...
then just drag.. and replace the same folder on the external
- BonSeff0
get yer hardware the automate it
http://www.dantz.com/en/products…
- BZZZP0
get the lacie terabyte drives, duh. not terrible at a buck a gig, either...
- Carty0
i got the d2 extreme 160, but i think the rest will be 250's...
http://www.clickonmacs.com/produ…they look alright... although the porches look smooth...
- designerror0
i don't trust the backup software because it fucked up some work once.. so i do it by hand now..
got the 250Gb FW from Lacie by FA Porsche, Carty.. they are stackble and look very smooth, so i surggest you start collecting them..
- Donvitoviti0
Maxtor onetouch does it with one touch of a button.
I use it all the time.
I personally like backing up to DVD my important stuff for extra support
- Carty0
just got my lacie 160.
i figure i'm just gonna start collecting them. but 250's.a friend of mine has 1.2 Terrabytes of storage.
i'm at about 400G with my 2 machines, my ipod and my lacie.
who's pushin mega storage?
- puter0
Carbon Copy Cloner is the most popular-
go to versiontracker.com at you'll find a crap load of options.
- hUtCh
Can anyone suggest the best way of keeping a regular backup of all my stuff?
Ideally I'd like it to backup overnight to either the Lacie or the iPod. I've tried Backup2.0.2 from Apple but it crashes on my laptop :o(
Cheers.