Automatic Backups to a Separate Partition

[josepht]

I know I could probably buy Retrospect to automatically backup my data to a separate partition, but is there any other way? I would like /Library, /Users, and my downloads directories automatically backed up to a separate partition. What are other ways to do this besides Retrospect?

Thanks!

 

[Applespider]

SuperDuper! will do it IIRC - don't have the link handy. I'm not sure if it does scheduling in its unregistered variety - but it is only $20 so not bad.

 

[live4ever]

Synk 5 will do this too.

 

[josepht]

Thanks! I'll look into those. Also, is there any way to do what I want using cron?

 

[blodwyn]

Synk 5 will do this too.

I tried Synk for a while, but had problems with the scheduler stopping for no reason. I switched to Chronosynk which has been working very well.

 

[jeremy.king]

FYI, backing up to another partition on the same physical drive will not do any good if the drive fails. Make sure you backup to another drive.