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- bredvad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29Super Duper.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html - joshpar, on 10/10/2007, -5/+29plug in firewire drive
turn it on
open terminal
rsync -av /home/user/dir/ /media/disk/backup - mateo60, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14You conspiracy guys kill me. If you don't like Apple stories, turn them off in your preferences.
- Audacitor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13It's standard backup documentation...
I don't often say this, but WTF is this doing on the front page? - mateo60, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14that's what my grandmother does.
- samsara1981, on 10/10/2007, -6/+15Sorry to tell you, buddy, but in a few months, you'll be a few months closer to death as well - how does that feel?
- mbadolato, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9SD is the only way to fly. Well worth the $29 to get the Smart Save feature.
I have mine set to back up an changes to an external drive (connected via Firewire 800), and it really saved my ass a few months ago. I ran a program (I forget the name) to remove unneeded translation files. In the process I also (dumbly) checked off the option to remove files for architectures I didn't need. Well, that essentially broke all of my Rosetta apps (MS Office, in particular, on my work laptop). So, I wiped the hard drive, reinstalled OS X, and when it asked if I wanted to transfer files from another Mac or another partition, I said yes. 40 minutes later (I had lots of music), the system came back up and it was as if I never broke it. All my settings, files, preferences, etc were sitting as I left them. Rosetta apps worked again becuase they were horked at the system level, not the user level. Beat that, XP/Vista! - nakile, on 10/10/2007, -5/+13Or you could just wait a few months for Mac OS Leopard and do it with a few clicks of the your mouse.
- Giga, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6And this article offers said help. You have to start somewhere.
- vwgtiturbo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6If I remember correctly, rsync doesn't handle OS X's meta data correctly, and you end up losing it. So, if you are like me and put Spotlight searchable comments in the meta data, it will be lost if you restore from the rsync back up...
- vapblack, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5lol - made me laugh. dugg.
- nixfu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+41) SuperDuper for boot disk
2) .Mac backup for data....It's a very nice backup application, with good scheduling for off hours, multiple destinations I do some to my home server and some to my iDisk/.Mac. And the fact that it has integration with the iLife apps, Safari, Mail etc makes it even better. - zodieman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4no, I have a hairy chest therefore I use UNIX whenever I can and since OS X is a UNIX variant....
- Giga, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I don't believe you.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Thank you Caption Obvious.
- Rodzirra, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yes. That program is one of the best user experiences I've ever... uh... experienced.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Get a faster internet connection.
- lochness, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Knowledge base articles are front page now ?!?!?!?!?
- cgomez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Best program ever. Fully bootable backups and is a steal at $29, but if you don't need advanced features, there is a version that's free.
- neondiet, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4
And in this case the guy's example came straight from Linux. The /media mount point is Linux; but on OS X it's /Volumes. - JonLatane, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4CORRECTION:
rsync -av /Users/user/dir/ /Volumes/disk/backup
Macs are UNIX, but Macs ain't Linux. - JonLatane, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Damnit Digg, stop eating my line breaks.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I use disk utils "restore" - boot from your Apple CD and open up the disk utility, then restore your main disk to an external drive for an exact copy. Reverse the process to really restore. I guess you could do it from within osx but I prefer it when its not running so I know nothing is changing.
I've restored from this type of backup a few times, plus it seems quicker than rsync or superduper (for a full backup) looks like it copies by disk block rather than each file. Plus no problems with meta data and all that. - aaronm67, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2.,,or you could spend 2 minutes adding a 1 line script to crontab and never have to worry about it again, and it will probably take much less time then the few mouse clicks.
- sv650touring, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You probably shouldn't use a MORE interesting article to support your point.Digg is about entertainment too, you know.
- bradleyland, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2There's a work around:
http://lartmaker.nl/rsync/ - Sonic84, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2this will change come 10.5. until then, boot from my external backup Hdd, disk utility, make disk image.
- sv650touring, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Maybe you don't like the naming system, but someone who uses "@" insteal of "a" in therir name doesn't have much room to complain. Also the iLife suite is neat as *****. I don't use it often, but when I had to make videos for work, with no actual experience, I saved a lot of time using iMovie (had Premier Pro and and FCP available also) and mine looked better than the other folks.
- Lancelot9201, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3If ".Mac" worked like it should I'd be a happy camper. Backing up via ".Mac" is slow, slow, slow.!!!
I hope the update they're planning fixes this issue, otherwise I'll never use the 10gig's they're
support to offer. - ylluminate, on 12/12/2008, -0/+1Just two notes on the rsync comment above so that you're sure you're getting resource forks, and such:
First, be sure that when you run the script that you're running rsync provided by Apple (perhaps newer rsync distributions have it as well, but I try to be careful to utilize the Apple provided one) in `/usr/bin/rsync`.
Second, run `rsync -avE /source_path /destination_path` so that you capture the additional resource fork data when applicable.
Of course you can run this over ssh, etc. etc. etc. - leksdraven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1To be fair, BOTH the title and the description describe that this is Apple's documentation and what to expect. If you don't want to see it then why are you clicking the link? What's more, why are you even commenting on something you DON'T want to see on the front page?
- neko, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2rdiff-backup /place/you/want/backed/up /place/it/goes/to
- mr804, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1no, it's rsyc -avE . You need the -E or you won't get your resource forks/metadata.
- zodieman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Needs a command line thought so I can script it for server work. I don't allow GUI apps on my servers since they live on the login screen in headless mode.
- zodieman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You are aware that rsync is not totally up to snuff to handle all the file data on Mac OS X right??
Meta data, resource forks (yes, we still have to deal with those) and more...
I'd suggest if anyone is running Tiger to add the -E flag to capture the extended attributes in files. Personally I still use RsycX as it's a bit better at handling everything. Make sure to use the --eahfs flag with that version.
Hopefully Apple will fix it's shortcoming in Leopard because rsync rocks. - fbeecher, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The best way to back up is to do it without even thinking about it. I've been using Mozy (http://www.mozy.com/) for a few months now and it's already saved my ass once. It takes a *real* long time to upload all the stuff you want to back up, but once it's done your computer backs up automatically every two hours or so. And for five bucks a month I get unlimited storage. And it's all encrypted. It's frikkin' awesome...
- Rodzirra, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1That is a nice, free way to do it. But I really like how Super Duper can do that thing where it only updates the differences between the source disk and the backup. That makes for a super quick backup, if you do it fairly regularly.
- rot13ubercrypto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I had pretty good luck with ibackup --
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23514
http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/
I don't know how it deals with databases, but I suppose you could just do it on the cheap, stop it, run something like mysqldump, and restart it. - nicktripp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You can clone a disk with Disk Utility just as easily and it's free.
Seriously. I've been doing my backups this way since 10.3. They're bootable, restorable and only take a few clicks. - MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1CarbonCopyCloner also works well.
- sv650touring, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The idea is that your most important data can be backed up manually, and that you can wait on a full backup. Hard drives die sometimes, but the majority outlive their usefulness,
- GetShorty, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I use Deja Vu, which was bundled with Toast Titanium. It's simple and it works for me, but I'm seriously considering mozy.com.
- lengau, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Or put it in the Applications directory. Then just click "Backup".
(Note: I'm not a Mac user and don't know how well this would work). - sv650touring, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1And you are making ***** comments on an Apple-related story because you are sad. DUH
- paddler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I regularly clone my Mac drive onto an external FW using Super Duper. A while back something hosed my OS X installation (can't remember just what it was that hosed it) so I just booted off the FW drive, fired up Super Duper and cloned the FW drive back onto the Mac drive. Rebooted and I was right back to the point of my last backup. Doesn't get any sweeter than that...
- patforget, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I don't backup. I like to live dangerously. Makes me feel alive.
- gunit99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1ChronoSync FTW...
- jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It has a backup program right there in the start menu, just everyone is talking about other ways to do it. It'll also backup your hd automatically every week, every day, etc.
- dimitrisokolov, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0
Or just make a decent ***** backup app and don't make me jump through the hoops. The best way to backup now is to get an external firewire drive and SuperDuper and just clone your drive every night. It does differential backups so after the initial backup, it takes about 10 min. to keep things in sync.
The best thing is that it is a bootable backup, so if your internal drive goes out, you just boot from the clone drive and you're good to go. - SupaFurry, on 01/23/2008, -2/+2Or set up a "backup" alias to backup to an offsite ssh server using rsync.
Open terminal > type "backup" -
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