On Oct 7, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Dan Crutcher <dcrutcher at loumag.com> wrote:
> I tried SuperDuper and, while it will work, its method of backing > everything up except what's excluded by script makes it a little more > cumbersome to set up than I'd like. And it does not appear that it > will allow the destination to be a folder on another hard drive; it > must be the drive itself. There may be scripting workarounds to that, > but not obviously apparent ones. With SuperDuper you can create "Sparse" disk images anywhere. Choose Disk Image... in the To: popup and then Sparse from the Image Type popup. Those images can be opened on anyone's computer, but only one person at a time. If open on one machine (a server, say) the mounted image can be shared and accessed by everyone. A little more trouble, but also doable, is to format a drive with partitions to receive your various backup items. You can also just buy a cheap drive and hang it off your server and put your files there. 500 GB external drives are as low as $200 these days. > > Apple's Backup does incremental and full backups quite well, and > that's what I use for my personal computer's home folder. But it > won't, to my knowledge, allow you to create a mirror of one drive's > file structure on another drive ? and it uses its own proprietary > file type for the backup files that requires having Backup installed > on any computer that needs to access those files. In my case I need > for anyone on the network to be able to access and use the files > regardless of whether they have Backup installed or not. The paid-for version of SuperDuper will also do incremental backups. > > I want to keep up-to-date duplicate copies of several folders on two > different drives. The amount of data that must be checked between > source and destination and mirrored each night is in the 200-250GB > range (though only 10 or 20 GB of that will actually be new or > changed files on any given day), which means it has to have a "smart > update" feature that only copies changed or new files. > > So I'm still looking for the perfect option... Let us know what you end up with... j. -- Jonathan Fletcher jfletch at newmediaconstco.com Project Foreman NewMedia Construction Co.
