Backup Software

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GetGo

macrumors regular

Original poster

• May 24, 2004

• #1

I am looking for a good backup program whether it's free or I have to buy it. Can you guys recommend a good program?

Thanks

 

yoda13

macrumors 65816

• May 24, 2004

• #2

I think backup software comes with .Mac. You might want to try that.

 

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GetGo

macrumors regular

Original poster

• May 24, 2004

• #3

I know that, but I don't want to pay $99.00 a year to backup my files. I have an external harddrive to backup to. I just need a good program to work with it.

 

rdowns

macrumors Penryn

• May 25, 2004

• #4

GetGo said:

I know that, but I don't want to pay $99.00 a year to backup my files. I have an external harddrive to backup to. I just need a good program to work with it.

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Carbon Copy Cloner is an excellent program and free. Just search for it at www.versiontracker.com

 

jxyama

macrumors 68040

• May 25, 2004

• #5

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/7842

the program is called synk. it's very flexible and gives you an option to synchronize as well as backup. "preview" is also good...

 

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learthur

macrumors newbie

• May 25, 2004

• #6

backup

I also recommend Carbon Copy Cloner. It also syncs now. It will make an exact bootable backup to your firewire drive. Just be sure to fix any existing disk errors with Disk Warrior BEFORE using Carbon Copy or you may have problems. Very easy and low maintenance solution. It is CHEAP also. The best combination I have found so far.

 

DavidLeblond

macrumors 68020

• May 25, 2004

• #7

tar -cvf /Volumes/External_Harddrive_name/file_name.tar /folder_I_want_to_backup | compress

Think that'll work, I can't test it I'm at a Windows machine. 🙁

 

wrldwzrd89

macrumors G5

• May 25, 2004

• #8

rdowns said:

Carbon Copy Cloner is an excellent program and free. Just search for it at www.versiontracker.com

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FYI, Carbon Copy Cloner is available at http://www.bombich.com and is considered uncrippled shareware. I recommend it too.

 

Horrortaxi

macrumors 68020

• May 25, 2004

• #9

I've used .Mac's Backup and I've used Retrospect. Simpler than either of those is simply dragging and dropping. Just copy the folders you want to backup onto your external drive. The only hitch I've had with this is that Quicken saves its data files in a strange place rather than putting them in the user's home folder--so I have to take 1 more step to do that.

Main benefits of not using a special backup application are the cost (free) and you don't need an application to use your backup. You can pull individual files out if you want. It's more flexible.

The main disadvantage to not using a backup app is the lack of scheduling your backups--it's all manual. But you might be able to schedule them with an AppleScript. If you do want automatic backups, then do as DavidLeblond suggested and use the command line.

 

jxyama

macrumors 68040

• May 25, 2004

• #10

does CCC support incremental backup? (i.e. not erasing anything not present in the source?)

i think Synk, the app. i suggested, does. wasn't sure about CCC.

 

wrldwzrd89

macrumors G5

• May 25, 2004

• #11

jxyama said:

does CCC support incremental backup? (i.e. not erasing anything not present in the source?)

i think Synk, the app. i suggested, does. wasn't sure about CCC.

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CCC only supports synchronization if you install psync.

 

matthew24

macrumors 6502

• May 25, 2004

• #12

Synchronize

For the sake of speed I do synchronize my data. (saves the changes):

http://www.softobe.com/