BackityMac 1.0 - easy backup, restore and maintenance | TUAW

BackityMac is a really handy, really simple to use backup and restore utility that allows you to chose from a number of different application support directories to backup into a good ol' fashioned read-only disk image. The list of library and support folders includes:

Mail
Entourage
Keychain
Safari, Firefox and Camino bookmarks
iPhoto library
iTunes library
iWeb files
Documents folder
your entire Home folder

However, BackityMac is no one-trick pony. It also has a Maintenance pane that allows you to perform various Mac OS X tune-up tasks such as permissions repair, deleting caches, re-indexing Spotlight, running those late-night cron scripts and more.

If you haven't found a good tool or developed some kind of a backup habit yet, BackityMac is a great place to start - especially since its free. Go check it out.

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Bob Mc

I've used CCC for years, but recently started using SuperDuper and like it much more. I like its ability to schedule specific events for specific tasks. For example, I backup my users folder every night to one drive and make a bootable backup of everything on a weekly basis.

March 30 2006 at 3:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris Meisenzahl

I'm w/ Jeff, I'm considering one of these tools and would love a 3-way review. ;-)

March 30 2006 at 2:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeff Kent

I just started using SuperDuper! last night. I was also looking at carbon copy cloner and iBackuup. Has anyone done a good comparison of these programs, including this posted one today? (That means you TUAW, do my bidding!)

March 30 2006 at 1:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply