#499888 - 03/18/1003:50 AMSimple backup utility for Tiger?
MacBozo
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Registered: 04/20/02
Posts: 15629
Loc: Pinellas Park, Florida
Is there one? My daughter's eMac is getting along in years and I know for a fact that she does not have a backup of her system. I have a spare HDD sitting here that only needs an enclosure that I could give her. She probably would not do manual backups, so it would have to be automated and the backup it creates would have to be easily recoverable. I'd hate for her to lose all her files in the event of a catastrophic failure.
trey
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Registered: 01/02/03
Posts: 5094
Loc: The Wizard's Balcony
I used Lacie's free backup software (quicksilver? something like that) for years on my PowerMac. It worked very well. At work I'm using Carbon Copy Cloner on our file server, and it has worked pretty well in the past, but lately it seems flakey. That's probably my fault though.
I use SuperDuper. There are both free and paid versions. It saved me after my PowerBook harddrive crash recently. It can create anything from a bootable copy to just select portions of the drive onto an external drive. Backups can be scheduled and if one sets that option turn the computer off when done; that allows backups at night.
My suggestion is to make at least 2 partitions on the external drive and set the backup schedule to alternate between the 2 partitions.
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