RSYNC and CRON are rock solid, the latter in use for several decades,
the former for many years, thought not several decades.
I use both regularly, RSYNC for backups on my OS X boxes, CRON for a
variety of tasks (though rarely on my OS X boxes).
Matthew
On Feb 14, 2009, at 5:39 PM, db wrote:
Aww shoot!
In reading people's responses to my original post, I thought I might
go with CCC but since I am actually researching for a friend, it's
not good to hear that I would be setting them up with something that
is likely produce problems eventually ... that then I will have to
try to fix.. :(
I agree that dependable is pretty much everything when it comes to
backups....
What about the other choices mentioned: Deja Vu ($25), Super Duper
($?) and Cronnix / rsync (free)?
And I guess upgrading to Leopard & Time Machine should be included
in the mix...
In looking at the reviews (mixed...) for Deja Vu just now, I came
across another option ChronoSync ($40):
http://www.econtechnologies.com/pages/cs/chrono_overview.html
Anybody have experience re: good stability/ dependability with
ChronoSync or the other options?
db
Tom Piwowar wrote:
I'm using Bombich Carbon Copy Cloner at this moment.
I use it too, but have found it less than reliable over the years.
His top selling point for version 3 is that it is not as bad as
previous versions. That kind of MS-style marketng does not impress.
The problem with CCC is that it relies primairly on the UNIX
system. CCC is primairly a friendly user interface for configuring
UNIX. When something goes wrong the errors you get are from UNIX
and therefore do not relate well to the settings you made in CCC.
Last week a client's computer reported during a CCC run: "The shell
tool could not be found. Error code 35." Well, what does one do
with that?
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