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- NoOneButMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Whats wrong with Disk Utility's Create / Restore images? Simple, Comprehensive, Free, Built into OS X..
- AssProphet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9How about, "despite what your fanboy friends might let on."
Apple has never claimed that their machines are invincible.
By the way I use SuperDuper, and I haven't found a better program.
good review: http://maczealots.com/reviews/superduper/ - cinnix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@monkeyrun:
What self respecting man reads a manual for any product? Shame on you. - AssProphet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/mac-backup-software-harmful/
- an excellent breakdown of os x backup options with a helpful feature chart - MacParrot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3SuperDuper is a great, easy to use hard drive cloner that while not the best looking or most OS X-ish program does exactly what it's supposed to do. It's the one I use, though Carbon Copy Cloner is another. I'll wait to see what Leopard brings with Time Machine, but I won't trust my backups to it for awhile.
boybunny, we get it. You've had some bad luck with your Macs. Here's a cookie. - mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@boybunny
I'd like to hear reasons for your assertion. There are plenty of OS Independent disc recovery programs out there that don't care weather or not you're using Linux, Unix, Microsoft or Apple.
"As Apple users we don't trust the data will exist on any mac at the end of the day." WTF does that mean? Back it up to a usb/firewire drive, a dvd, or a remote server. You don't have to back it up to another mac.
Also, there's nothing wrong with not liking OS X, but please do tell about all of the hardware/software flaws you've detected. I thought you said that you tell everyone about them. - philippbock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looks to me as if there’s still a teeny bit of room for improvement in SilverKeeper’s UI judging by that screenshot.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We've had good results at my workplace using PsyncX, which is just a frontend to the old Unix CL utility rsync.. We recently got an Xserve raid to replace individual FW drives, and we are switching to BRU, which is a great program, but a bit pricey..
- code007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love iBackup, its free and most important of all, if you are a new "mac" member like myself, with iBackup you don't really have to know what to backup. Just tell what application based files you want to backup like ical's data, or your address book's cards data and it knows what to backup.
- ronocdh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I highly recommend iBackup over this SilverKeeper piece of junk. iBackup has a beautiful interface, that is extremely Apple in that everything is clear and visible. Functionality is just freaking simple, like it should be. Offers backing up of Applications, Home Folder, Preferences, etc. as default checkboxes, but the user can manually specify other directories to be included in backups. Fantastic software.
- spliffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1don't judge an applications functionality base on it's interface though!
i have used silverkeeper for 3 years and it works perfectly for my needs.
one slight problem with the UI is when a scheduled backup runs, it dominates the screen and i am unable to use other applications because silver keeper continuously focuses itself when changing backup task. unless you use you're computer 24 hours a day, this won't be a problem if you set it for while you sleep. - wonderchemist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You can boot disk utility images over a network, dunno about on a local machine.
- monkeyrun, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3"I've never used Disk Utility for that, but can you boot from the images it creates?"
Yes, RTFM - ThomasUmstattd, on 09/28/2009, -0/+0I can't wait for time machine.
- exodar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have become increasingly worried about backing up data after the company I work for experienced 5 Hard Drive failures in the last 6 months. Not only that, I have a close friend that called me and told me his eMac Hard Drive failed and he had no backup and lost all of the paperwork for an adoption they are going through right now. After having a kid of my own and all of our pictures of her being digital, it makes me nervous if I don't have proper backups. However, backing up regularly can be a total pain in the ass.
Currently I use Retrospect Desktop by Dantz to do an incremental backup of my /Users/ folder to a 200GB External Firewire Drive every night. I also have two RAID1 external Firewire Drives (160GB and 500GB) to store all of my Music/Movies and other important data. I have weekly offsite backups of my /Users/ folder to CD/DVD and BiWeekly offsite backups of my iTunes Music/Movies and my iPhoto data (those are on the RAID1 disks due to their size) to CD/DVD. I just store those in spindles at work in case of a house fire or such. Retrospect makes it easy because it automates the entire thing and just prompts me to put in a CD/DVD every Saturday and Sunday. I just label them, put them in my laptop bag, and store them at my desk. Without something automated like that I would NEVER do it. - Idgit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1After Leopard comes out with Time Machine backing data up on a mac will be much more pain free then the TFA makes it out to be.
- doowop, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I've never used Disk Utility for that, but can you boot from the images it creates?
- Hintzer22, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1assprophet beat me to it.
digg down - boybunny, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Well my wife and I have found that Apples offerings are far less stable. We have been encouraged by the Mac Fanatics here on Digg to tell every person we meet about Mac hardware and OSX flaws we have encountered. We were always able to recover data from drives on Windows if something other than a (hardware) HDD failure went wrong. OSX, well you can have a child destroy the data on a machine with a few deft clicks. We have yet to find any recovery tool on OSX that has recovered more than 10% of the files on a (software) damaged drive.
As Windows users we would be happy backing up once every three months. As Apple users we don't trust the data will exist on any mac at the end of the day.
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