Best Backup Utility
I have two internal hard drives that I would like to backup (fairly regularly) to an external one. What is the best program for accomplishing this? The internals are 80, and 180. The external is 120. I've been looking at Retrospect Express 5, any thoughts?
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The bugs in the program have nothing to do with losing data. That little popup list of sets is somewhat buggy... sometimes, it will remove the sets from the popup menu (no data is erased, I just have to go in and make the set over again) and one time it made three or four duplicates of my sets in the list (again, no data was changed, the list just got too many items in it). Now it's fine. Oh, also, it doesn't work with scheduling in OS X, only in OS 9.
I use it because it's free, I'm poor, and it's better than nothing. But if you have plenty to spend on it and lots of features you want out of the program, then by all means look for something more advanced. I really don't know much about backup programs though, so I can't really help you much.
Originally posted by ena
Retrospect---I think the personal edition is reasonable $$.
Retrospect Express is only $43.99 at the online retailer that I checked out. Dantz has been in the Macintosh back up business since '84. I remember using Retrospect to back up my Macintosh 128! Not really, but I did use it to back up one AppleShare IP Server and three client (Mac OS 9.X) computers. Never had a problem. Oh, it does do software compression. Also easy to use and Mac OS X native.
Originally posted by der Kopf
My question: what is the advantage of using a backup program instead of just copying whatever you want over to wherever you want it?
If you just want to back up you porn...uh...family vacation photos and a few Word documents then there isn't much of an advantage except that it's automated. If you're backing up your entire system then just dragging one hard drive the other hard drive will not back up the system files that are necessary to restore you computer to working order again.