Any experience of Thecus Backup utility

Question

Hi
Does anyone have experience of Thecus' Backup utility running on OSX 10.4? The software comes bundled with their network storage but I'd like some feedback about it's reliability before trustign it with all my data.
Thanks on advance

Answer 1

mpjx wrote:
Thanks for the reply. Good to hear that it's not a rebranded product as it eliminates all the bad stuff. I've been looking into backup software for a while and it seems a major flaw with a lot of products is either a) that they don't copy file permissions and/or file specific meta data accurately
You can use Backup Bouncer to test how well a backup application copies a variety of things including a great deal of meta data and, definitely, standard things like permissions.
or b) they're maintained by a single developer who seem to go walkabout on occasions (often just after an update to OS X which creates bugs).
I have found Carbon Copy Cloner pretty good even though it is maintained by a single developer. I would prefer an open-source solution, but CCC can be used to schedule tasks which are then independent of the application itself. Although the Tiger version was a long time in coming, the earlier version (2.3) actually worked fine on Tiger except for one or two minor (and fairly easy to work around) issues. The new version makes better copies, but 2.3 did an entirely satisfactory job for most purposes. 3.1 passes the Backup Bouncer tests according to CCC's developer. I ran the tests myself to confirm this, as well.
- cfr