Re: OT: backups

2006-04-17 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Mark, I'm running Synchronise Pro X 4.1.1, each night in cron mode with good results since over one year : 1.- to backup my two home office macs (pwb OS X 10.4.6 + mac mini OS X 10.3.9) to an external/remote 250 Go firewire external drive connected to the mac mini. 2.- to clone the

Re: OT: backups

2006-04-17 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Does anyone have any recommendations for backup systems? What I'm currently using: a mixed OSX and Windows 2k system running Retrospect Server 6.5 on a Win2k server box, backing up four computers to a 160gig NetDisk. This occasionally works, is a pain to set up, more of a pain to

Re: OT: backups

2006-04-17 Thread SimPLsol
Mark, For my personal computer, running OS X, I use SuperDuper, backing up to a Firewire HD. SuperDuper erases the backup drive and copies everything from the source drive - takes about 1 hour - and the Firewire HD is then a bootable HD. Incremental updates take about 5 - 7 minutes. SuperDuper

Re: OT: backups

2006-04-17 Thread Mark Talluto
On Apr 16, 2006, at 8:09 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations for backup systems? I am using ChronoSync http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/index.html The developer loves his products and responds to you directly. I have it backing up my drives incrementally to

Re: OT: backups

2006-04-17 Thread Mark Talluto
On Apr 16, 2006, at 8:09 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: 160gig NetDisk. Sorry about not reading it all the way through. I missed the part about it backing up over a network. This would still work if the network looks like a mountable drive to the OS. Hope that still helps some. Mark

OT: backups

2006-04-16 Thread Mark Wieder
All- Off topic, but there are some smart and savvy people on this list so I thought I'd ask... Does anyone have any recommendations for backup systems? What I'm currently using: a mixed OSX and Windows 2k system running Retrospect Server 6.5 on a Win2k server box, backing up four computers to a

Re: OT: backups

2006-04-16 Thread Stephen Barncard
This one works for me FoldersSynchronizer - 3.5.4 http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/1682 backing up large disks over networks sucks. I'd suggest getting a moveable firewire for each workstation if the data is important at all. sqb All- Off topic, but there are some

Re: OT: backups

2006-04-16 Thread James Z
This isn't quite what you want but... I keep all my documents in one directory (containing many sub directories.) when I backup to a DVD I only need to copy the one directory. The benefit: everything gets copied to the backup and you don't have to worry that anything isn't backed up.. The

Re: OT: backups

2006-04-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Mark, Please check out www.foldershare.com It's an Austin company recently purchased by MicroSoft. And the software rocks on both Macs and PC's. I use it on 4 of my computers. You of course already know about MagicCarpet, Altuit's own version control/archival software. Altuit also has