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Old 20-12-2006, 02:41 PM
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Best program to use to back-up to external hard drive
I am absolutely certain that this has been discussed before but everything I've found is from quite a while ago.
I have an iBook G4 running Tiger and an external hard drive. I want to back up music and everything else to my external hd with minimum fuss and so that I don't have to copy everything every time. I have my everything for my thesis on my lap top (also backed elsewhere - don't panic) so it is starting to get very big.

What program do others use and do they cost $$?

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Old 20-12-2006, 02:45 PM
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I use and highly recommend Super Duper. It's about US$30 and has never let me down.
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Old 20-12-2006, 02:46 PM
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Paid for:
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDup...scription.html

Free:
http://www.lacie.com/silverkeeper/

Both good Both can do incremental backups and aren't too hard to set up.
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Old 20-12-2006, 02:51 PM
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rsyncx - free!
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Old 20-12-2006, 02:58 PM
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Have a look at DeJaVu too (http://propagandaprod.com/), we have been using it for a couple of years in our lab (plenty of thesis backups!). Never had any issues with it, much better than iomega automatic backup (the other program we tried using).
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Old 20-12-2006, 03:01 PM
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there's an rsync tutorial here on this very site, which is what i used to set mine up...

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Old 20-12-2006, 03:03 PM
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I, too, use Silverkeeper and I've only ever had one glitch, which was easily fixed. I have one Mac connected by firewire to a La Cie HD, and we back up another Mac via Airport to the same HD (on separate partitions). Works a treat - full incremental back-up of my entire home folder takes a couple of minutes each evening - longer for the iMac on Airport, but nothing unbearable.
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Old 20-12-2006, 03:22 PM
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Another vote for SilverKeeper. I know some people have had trouble with it but it works fine for me.
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Old 20-12-2006, 03:59 PM
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I use iMsafe. It's free and easy, just like me!

http://homepage.mac.com/sweetcocoa/imsafe/

When it stopped working on one of our machines running 10.3.9 (after an update) I emailed them describing the problem and they sent me a new version within 24 hours. Pretty good service for a free product.
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Old 20-12-2006, 05:08 PM
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Superduper for me. Many other progs seem to do the trick, but I had to make sure that I had an exact clone with all permissions copied and bootable, and Super Duper seemed to guarantee this (and it does work). I guess you can download the free programs and try them out.
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Old 21-12-2006, 06:27 AM
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I use SuperDuper! and it works great for me. The first backup took a while, but the smart backups I do each week from my MBP fly along.
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Old 21-12-2006, 07:12 AM
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Doesnt anyone use Carbon Copy Cloner anymore?

What am i missing?

Recently, i've only used it for complete bootable backups, but i've done incremental backups before and it worked fine!

And its still free!
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