At 6:56 PM +0200 11/10/2009, Baha Ata wrote: >are there any good if not better alternatives for Time Machine?
So far you and Bruce are the only two folx I know that haven't had major TM fooage. By "major" I mean that TM farks so badly that it's necessary to erase the whole backup volume. That being said.... AFAIK, there are no products except Time Machine that fully hook into OS X to provide the event driven incremental backups. All other backup products simply do their incremental work (take a snapshot) at the time you schedule (run) them. The two frontrunners these days are CarbonCopyCloner (CCC) and SuperDuper!. My current preference is for CCC. We've had quite a few threads on the LEM lists discussing these products. If you're interested in them, you should search first. Note here that we're talking about *backup* softwares, not *synchronization* products. Sync is very different from backup - it creates a hot copy of the current file, not a time-based backup into which you can dig to recover things. Dropbox uses OS X's event driven mechanism to see file changes that it needs to sync'd up into its cloud (encrypted on Amazon S3). (and then Dropbox blurs the line between sync and backup because it supports versioning - you can go into your account on the Dropbox web site and retrieve previous versions of your files.) - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
