[SET Man]

Hey!

    To all MAC user. Is there a good simple back up program for Mac?

Take care,
Buddy

   

[Bemopti123]

Superduper?  I trial is free.  I use it sporadically.

Want the full version?  I think it cost something like $20.  This is more efficient.

[mcullinan]

Retrospect...
V Good.
Mike

[SET Man]

Superduper?  I trial is free.  I use it sporadically.

Want the full version?  I think it cost something like $20.  This is more efficient.

Hey!

  Thanks man! Looks pretty good.

  You know I'm embaress  to say this but I've been backing up my important files manually to my external HDD 

  Well, it would be nice to have a simpler way to do it. So, I might get that. At $28 it should make my life easier and for a piece of mind

Take care,
Buddy

[dB Cooper]

iBackup is freeware and gets good user ratings. Apple's Backup is included in dot mac (if you have that) and works pretty well.

[Levi]

If you like it free.  Try this 4Gb free storage automatic online backup.  If you need more space then it is $4.99 monthly  Mozy online backup. 

The backup utility works with Mac and Windows.  It does the following:
* Is simple to set up
* Performs backups automatically in the background
* Encrypts all files on your PC before transfer
* Performs incremental backups
* Backs up only blocks that have changed
* Backs up open/locked files

Cheers,
Levi

[Bemopti123]

That 4Gb online auto back up sounds like Levi, but brother, 4GB?  That would be good for only a couple of lossless songs.  So, Buddy, what do you have in your HD?  There is a ton of free software out there for this purpose, but many of them a flat out clumsy or with flaws.  The free trial version of Super made me happy.  Now, I need to find a reason why I want to shell out $28 for the full version.  How much capacity do you have on your HD?  I have seen a 1 TB drive going for less than $500 now.

[mcullinan]

Definitely... Id stay away from online backup, who knows how secure your info is anyways. 4 Gigs, maybe if your listening to 48K mp3s in mono. . haha im so not funni.
<ike

But Apple Lossless is where its AT!

[Levi]

That's what you get for free.  As I stated, If you want more space, you fork up some Moolah.  Bua ha ha ha

That 4Gb online auto back up sounds like Levi, but brother, 4GB?  That would be good for only a couple of lossless songs.  So, Buddy, what do you have in your HD?  There is a ton of free software out there for this purpose, but many of them a flat out clumsy or with flaws.  The free trial version of Super made me happy.  Now, I need to find a reason why I want to shell out $28 for the full version.  How much capacity do you have on your HD?  I have seen a 1 TB drive going for less than $500 now.

[SET Man]

That 4Gb online auto back up sounds like Levi, but brother, 4GB?  That would be good for only a couple of lossless songs.  So, Buddy, what do you have in your HD?  There is a ton of free software out there for this purpose, but many of them a flat out clumsy or with flaws.  The free trial version of Super made me happy.  Now, I need to find a reason why I want to shell out $28 for the full version.  How much capacity do you have on your HD?  I have seen a 1 TB drive going for less than $500 now.

Hey!

   Yup, I'm not big on the online back up things. Although it dose have a plus side of being safer than storing things in you external HDD at home. I really don't like to say this.... you know in case something happen to your home... knock on wood here.  But it is unlikely. And to get the space I needed will be costly.

    I do have about 60G of music files in AIFF on my external HDD but I always ended up going back to loading up CDs on my Sony 5 disc changer and of course spinning LPs.

       Anyway, back to what I'm looking for. Basically I'm pretty much maxed out my built-in 60G HDD on my PowerBook G4. Well, I don't have any music on it but mostly photos files. I've been doing backing up manually and it work fine but I though it might easier with a good program.

    So, my plan is to keep my built-in HDD free with only stuffs that I use regularly or working on at the moment and use my Seagate 400G external HDD as a back up, and another Seagate 250G external as a back up for the back up And use the back up program to back up whatever on the built-in HDD at the moment.

   Well, I think I will need sometime to totally regorganize my files on all of my HDDs.... now that will take a while  And so far the Superduper looks pretty good. Thanks guys

Take care,
Buddy

[nathanm]

Incremental scheduled backups ($25): Déjà Vu  http://propagandaprod.com/dejavu.html
Drive cloner (donationware):Carbon Copy Cloner  http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

[jaywills]

I've used Carbon Copy Cloner successfully for years.  Very happy with it.