A good Backup Application

[maxvamp]

Hello all,

I am shopping for a new backup app, and I was curious what backup applications people have used with Mac OSX, and what the did or didn't like about it.

Personally I am using Dantz Retrospect Express, and I am a little anoid that there is no real upgrade path to Retrospect, without paying full price to the next step up in the product. Furthermore, I have found their customer support to really stink. Ask how I know, and I'll tell you about some of the bugs I have uncovered.

Thanx all,
Max

 

[iJon]

Personally I love .Mac. Its backup utility is great. You should go to apples site and read up on it.

iJon

 

[Kwyjibo]

I think he might need more/faster storage than that. I have never found a good backup application and since i only backup my user file and other partition I do it manually. otherwise try carbon copy cloner.

 

[jholzner]

Originally posted by iJon
Personally I love .Mac. Its backup utility is great. You should go to apples site and read up on it.

iJon

Yup!! That's what I use and I love it. I back up my e-mail, address book, and iPhoto libraries regularly...and it's great.

 

[Marc the Mac]

I have recently been using Intego Personal Backup X (OS X native)

Check out their web site: www.intego.com

It allows you to easily 'Backup', 'Restore', 'Sync' and 'Clone'. You can also edit the backup scripts easily. I used a standard 'Backup' but set it to copy certain folders on my mac to an external firewire drive. When it runs the schedule it only copies over files that need copying and you can set it to delete files removed from the sources - or not.

You can also create disc images too.

The Sync mode lets you keep a syncronized copy of a chosen volume.

Works for me...