I use ditto on the command line for complete mirroring, and rsyncx (available online) for incremental backups. They're both hellaciously powerful, but without GUIs. rsyncx comes with RsyncX.app, a GUI to set up some of the more commonly used options, but it's not exactly user friendly, and you're much better off reading the documentation and using it directly, IMO.
OTOH, there are a handful of GUI based apps to do these sorts of things, although my experience with them is that they simply don't have the raw capability of ditto and rsyncx.
(Note - there is an rsync that ships with MacOS X, but it *cannot handle resource forks*. Silly, eh? rsyncx adds HFS+ support explicitly - work is underway to include this functionality in the base rsync distribution, but it's not there yet.)
I use Carbon Copy Cloner myself - it's available at http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html. I recommend CCC because it uses ditto internally and is capable of making bootable backups.
I've used both and still use Silverkeeper. Mostly as it's inteface is a bit easier to use (in my opinion at least). It doesn't like network drives very much though.
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I use ditto on the command line for complete mirroring, and rsyncx (available online) for incremental backups. They're both hellaciously powerful, but without GUIs. rsyncx comes with RsyncX.app, a GUI to set up some of the more commonly used options, but it's not exactly user friendly, and you're much better off reading the documentation and using it directly, IMO.
OTOH, there are a handful of GUI based apps to do these sorts of things, although my experience with them is that they simply don't have the raw capability of ditto and rsyncx.
(Note - there is an rsync that ships with MacOS X, but it *cannot handle resource forks*. Silly, eh? rsyncx adds HFS+ support explicitly - work is underway to include this functionality in the base rsync distribution, but it's not there yet.)
Carbon Copy Cloner
Silverkeeper (from Lacie)
Originally posted by jwri004
Some options are :
Carbon Copy Cloner
Silverkeeper (from Lacie)
I use Carbon Copy Cloner myself - it's available at http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html. I recommend CCC because it uses ditto internally and is capable of making bootable backups.
Originally posted by jwri004
Some options are :
Carbon Copy Cloner
Silverkeeper (from Lacie)
I've used both and still use Silverkeeper. Mostly as it's inteface is a bit easier to use (in my opinion at least). It doesn't like network drives very much though.