At 10 mars 2003, 06.58 CET, John Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After having struggled with the most confusing convoluted cryptic >application ever conceived (Retrospect), then CCC, I'm now in heaven. I >use Tri-Backup which is SOOOOOO simple to use, SOOOOO reliable, it's >utterly ridiculous. Where was this great app all my life. Someone on >this list turned me onto it a few months ago and I've never looked back. > You can't beat the price either, just fifty bucks! > >Tri-Backup here: ><http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html> > >I can't say enough about it. I have no interest in the product other >than just being a totally satisfied OSX user. At last! > >Just a thought, it may or may not meet all your needs the way it has mine.
I downloaded the Tri-Backup after your enthusiastic words, after having had some tech problems with Synchronize! Pro X <http://www.qdea.com/ pages/pages-sprox/sprox1.html> which also retails at double the prize. Anyhow, the tech problems seem not to be so much because of the softwares or OSX themselves as because of my own very limited tech knowledge. Which leads to a few questions that really are outside the subject "PowerMail", but since there is so much general knowledge in this group I though I'd take a chance and ask anyhow. Please tell me if you think I'm out of line, and I'll stick to PowerMail issues in the future. 1) I have a small (2 Macs) LAN with OSX v10.2.4 on the main machine and OS 9.2 on the other, which I use as mail & backup server etc. Now, you can give Tri-Backup root rights so it can take care of automated OS volume backups etc, but when doing so it can't find the backup server anymore. Or rather, it finds the server and says there are no (zero) files on it. On the server, I have created one "root" and one normal (my normal user account on the OSX machine) user account and put them together in a group. I've tried to give the server volumes different sharing rights ("root", "group", "normal user" etc) and I've tried to connect to the server both as "root" and "normal" but nothing helps. If I deactivate the Administrator Authorization there are no problems, Tri- Backup finds the server and can perform its task. But the main idea with this is to have Tri-Backup running at all times, performing different kinds of backups, isn't it? There must be a way to configure the network itself (and probably a quite easy one, if you know your way around computers). Can you help? 2) The second issue is connected with the first one, as it needs to have Administrator Authorization activated: I have a special volume for mirroring the OSX drive locally. I set this up for use with Synchronize! Pro to be able to create a bootable mirror volume. It worked but I had to log out and log back in as "root" to be able to do it, and thus the idea of "automatic backups" was gone. I read Tri-Backup can perform bootable backups as well, and I tried to do it. It seems like Tri-Backup backed up even the hidden files and all, but most files where placed in a _folder_ with the same name as the volume backed up. Which makes it un-bootable. This must be a simple mistake made by me when setting it up, but I can't figure out how to do it right. I somebody can guide me through it I'd be very happy. Thanks for your attention and, again, please forgive me if I am way out of line with this message. Max G
