First Look: Twin 1.0 for Mac OS X

Anyone else tried iDrive or Syncplicity?

re>FTP, et. all.

There is a reason CrashPlan doesn't support these lower intelligence transports and targets. When we designed CrashPlan we decided to not trust the hardware or storage at a backup destination. Each destination automatically verifies your backups autonomously and heals around any errors detected. If you used FTP, you would have to read in all the data over the net to verify it. The larger the data backed up, the more impossible this becomes.

Of course, we could turn off this verification and use a target like FTP, but is it worth it? More bandwidth used, less data security .. seems like an awful lot to sacrifice.

Anyone know if when backing up via FTP it only sends the delta of a changed file rather than having to re-upload the entire file? I have some crazy large files I modify regularly and it would suck if it had to re-upload the entire files every time.

Guess I could try the demo out and figure it out for myself :P

Very nice app! I was using SmartBackup, but this beats the pants off of it! And the scheduling, bandwidth capping and compression is good!!!! Finally, I can dump all the other backup apps I've tried to send data to my webserver.

Nobody's mentioned JungleDisk yet? Been using for 18 months now and it works like a champ.

If our files will have Jack Bauer Quality, won't they get infected by a biological weapon???

about pixelmator comment : the free tutorial to make this kind of bubbles is available on hundred of websites ;-)

With the trial version, you will be limited to a single backup of 250 Mb maximum over 15 days, as well as restoring only one file at a time. About the price, you forgot that all updates are free for your full life, so in fact, it's very cheap with free technical suppport.

I have been waiting for this app from weeks !! From the Beta period itself.... I am really looking forward to getting this app, however, the price tag is very steep !!

Can anyone give me info on the Trial version ? Is it a Limited-time trial (15-day or 30-day) OR a limited function trial with no Time limit ??

Thanks.

Not that impressed. It does incremental backups fine, but when I go to restore an individual file, I can't pick a certain date/revision of that file. And in fact, when I click "Restore...", my Mac just beeps at me. What the heck?