Re: Backup question, and a tip

2005-04-10 Thread Bruce Mitchell 
On 4/10/05 1:52 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 02:02 PM +0100 04/10/2005, walter wrote:
>> suggestions about good (and cheap) remote backup options for Macs.
>> 
>> I considered .Mac, of course. But at the moment the MB allocation
>> seems rather paltry. SpyMac offers a lot of space for email but not
>> so much for storage (I think it's again 250MB). One option is of
>> course to email oneself with one's important files as attachments.
>> But it would be cumbersome. The ideal arrangement would be a remote
>> server to which a backup application automatically uploads the
>> changed files for the day. There are several offerings out there and
>> I was wondering whether anyone had had good experiences (in
>> Mac-terms) with any of them. I suppose the ideal space would be 3-5
>> GB or thereabouts.
> 
> There are a lot of choices, software-wise; some are less expensive
> than others.  Site-wise, keep in mind there's the privacy / trust
> issue...
> 
> I'm cheap, lazy, and cheap, so... once a month, I swap CD/DVD-R discs
> with a friend.  That gets the backups off-site.  Inbetween, I ftp my
> files to his server (and he does the same to mine).
> 
> - Dan.

What a great idea. Thanks for the tip.

Bruce


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Re: Backup question, and a tip

2005-04-10 Thread darm0k 
At 02:02 PM +0100 04/10/2005, walter wrote:
suggestions about good (and cheap) remote backup options for Macs.
I considered .Mac, of course. But at the moment the MB allocation 
seems rather paltry. SpyMac offers a lot of space for email but not 
so much for storage (I think it's again 250MB). One option is of 
course to email oneself with one's important files as attachments. 
But it would be cumbersome. The ideal arrangement would be a remote 
server to which a backup application automatically uploads the 
changed files for the day. There are several offerings out there and 
I was wondering whether anyone had had good experiences (in 
Mac-terms) with any of them. I suppose the ideal space would be 3-5 
GB or thereabouts.
There are a lot of choices, software-wise; some are less expensive 
than others.  Site-wise, keep in mind there's the privacy / trust 
issue...

I'm cheap, lazy, and cheap, so... once a month, I swap CD/DVD-R discs 
with a friend.  That gets the backups off-site.  Inbetween, I ftp my 
files to his server (and he does the same to mine).

- Dan.
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Re: Backup question, and a tip - external firewire

2005-04-10 Thread Brian Stewart 
I am sure you have looked into this. I use an external 5" firewire 
enclosure with a 30 GB hard drive. I use CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) that 
is one of the best pieces of freeware that I have ever seen. I backup 
my 30 GB powerbook to the external enclosure in minutes as an image. I 
keep 3 or 4 retentions of my data (about 2 weeks worth) and It has 
saved my bacon a couple times

just my 2 cents
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Re: Backup question, and a tip

2005-04-10 Thread Nancy Lawrence 
I'm a big fan of SuperDuper.  I've been using it through the last few  
versions and I couldn't be happier.  Cheap, easy, highly-functional.   
It will back-up to a remote server and I think it has an option to do  
the type of incremental backup you want.  If not, you could use it in  
conjunction w/ChronoSync--there's a nice article on that here:

http://www.mac360.com/index.php/mac360/more/ 
backup_and_sync_best_mac_apps_are_now_better/

and of course, there's a wealth of user experiences/reports here:
http://www.macintouch.com/backup06.html#apr09
HTH,
Nancy
On Apr 10, 2005, at 9:02 AM, walter wrote:
Hello again,
just wondered if anyone had any suggestions about good (and cheap)  
remote backup options for Macs.

I considered .Mac, of course. But at the moment the MB allocation  
seems rather paltry. SpyMac offers a lot of space for email but not so  
much for storage (I think it's again 250MB). One option is of course  
to email oneself with one's important files as attachments. But it  
would be cumbersome. The ideal arrangement would be a remote server to  
which a backup application automatically uploads the changed files for  
the day. There are several offerings out there and I was wondering  
whether anyone had had good experiences (in Mac-terms) with any of  
them. I suppose the ideal space would be 3-5 GB or thereabouts.

And now for the tip: although I love OS X, one thing that gets me is  
that when I single-click on a file/folder name in a finder window (I  
use the 'view as columns' option), if there is not enough space in the  
right column, the left columns gets moved off to the left and the file  
name disappears under the next column. It makes getting back to that  
column a bit of a pain, especially when it happens all the time. Well,  
I've discovered that if you command-click on the file name again (or  
any area of the half-hidden column), the left column comes back into  
full view again without any need to reach for the scroll bar. Neat, I  
thought.

Walter.
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Backup question, and a tip

2005-04-10 Thread walter 
Hello again,
just wondered if anyone had any suggestions about good (and cheap) 
remote backup options for Macs.

I considered .Mac, of course. But at the moment the MB allocation seems 
rather paltry. SpyMac offers a lot of space for email but not so much 
for storage (I think it's again 250MB). One option is of course to 
email oneself with one's important files as attachments. But it would 
be cumbersome. The ideal arrangement would be a remote server to which 
a backup application automatically uploads the changed files for the 
day. There are several offerings out there and I was wondering whether 
anyone had had good experiences (in Mac-terms) with any of them. I 
suppose the ideal space would be 3-5 GB or thereabouts.

And now for the tip: although I love OS X, one thing that gets me is 
that when I single-click on a file/folder name in a finder window (I 
use the 'view as columns' option), if there is not enough space in the 
right column, the left columns gets moved off to the left and the file 
name disappears under the next column. It makes getting back to that 
column a bit of a pain, especially when it happens all the time. Well, 
I've discovered that if you command-click on the file name again (or 
any area of the half-hidden column), the left column comes back into 
full view again without any need to reach for the scroll bar. Neat, I 
thought.

Walter.
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