Have You Backed-up Today?

Another great feature of ChronoSync is it's ability to perform a sync anytime a volume (firewire, network, etc) is mounted. I use this all the time to sync documents between home-firewire-work computers.

I use ChronoSync to backup my home folder to my secondary internal hard drive in my powermac G5 every night. I also have it backup my home folder once a week to my Lacie Firewire drive. In addition, I keep my iBook and Powermac documents folder in sync using ChronoSync. It's a great app, highly recommend it, only $30.

i have a fairly sweet setup on my powerbook g4: 1) Peripheral Vision detects connections on Airport, and runs a shell script. 2) Shell script checks the SSID of the connected wlan, sets my Location (eg Work or Home, for network settings) 3) Growl notification informs me 'Connected at via ' - pure eyecandy 4) Shell script checks if a backup has run today, and if not, launches ChronoSync 5) ChronoSync is setup to launch a suite of Sync operations on launch, which mount a share on my PowerMac and sync up my Pictures, Music, Documents, Software (etc etc) folders. 6) ChronoSync is also setup to launch an AppleScript called 'QuitChrono' after the last sync operation 7) The AppleScript quits ChronoSync. Combine that with my Salling Clicker script which automatically syncs with my phone, and you have a very nice setup - simply open the powerbook (with my phone in my pocket) and my phone and all my data is synced / backed up. ;o)

Hi, I have had a computer for many years but consider myself a rookie when it comes to stuff like this. Couldn't I just buy a LaCie external HD and then have that backup my files whenever I asked it to?Is this enough...what am I missing?Please help me rectify this situation. Thanks so much.

Carbon copy cloner does have a sync option that I use to make regular backups. I think you have to install another program for the sync option to be available.

I highly recommend Deja Vu. It's a System Pref that can automate Daily, Weekly, and Monthly backups.

Retrospect is unquestionably the best product out there - especially given it's cross platform support - we've got it running on many mac, windows, and linux servers backing up to a couple terrabytes worth of disk space. Unfortunately, it's expensive. I've also heard good things about BackJack (www.backjack.com) but that's also a pay service, with a setup fee, etc. But to be frank, a complete hard drive failure is not necessarily the end of your data - if you've got the bucks, and you like to gamble, there are quite a few companies that'll bring your drive into a clean room, crack it open and load the platters into their own equipment and get the data back to you, but at a cost usually much greater than the cost of Retrospect or a backup service. Drive Savers (drivesavers.com) is one of the best that I've heard of (but their services start at about $600).

This post inspired me to do a backup of my mac at school. I wanted to back up my files to an external drive, and also wanted to sync my desktop and PowerBook. I really wanted a free program that would do this for me, and found one (that's free for students like me). It's called Synk ( http://www.decimus.net/synk/ ), and it seems to be working fine. It can backup and/or synchronize, and has options for scheduling. Check it out.

I am still grumpy about Apple not offering Backup 3 for download or for sale seperate from .mac. I have no use for iDisk or any of the other .mac options. I just want Backup 3 :)

Disk Utility + external FireWire hard drive + discipline = weekly bootable backup