Audio back-up software... Is Time machine an option?
Here's what's up...
I'm currently installing and re-authorizing everything under the sun, on my new 8 core mac.
One bit of software that I really made a lot of use of was LaCie's Silver keeper. It allowed me to keep a "list" of the 20 songs I was currently working on. You first designated a back-up location, and then proceeded to back up the song folder.
Then, from that point on, you simply selected the song title from the list, and hit "Go", and any changes made since that initial back-up were backed up as well. It went REALLy fast, because only the changes made from the last back-up were updated, so no redundant data was copied again.
I much prefer this method than backing up an entire drive, even if only recent changes are reflected. It still takes more time than I may have between songs, with clients in the studio.
All that to say, Silver Keeper is not Leopard compatible, and I certainly can't wait for it to be.
Does Time Machine allow you to designate specific folders within a hard drive? And can it access multiple hard drives, say, one for a complete system back-up, and another for daily or hourly audio back-ups?
Or is something like Retrospect a better choice for how I prefer to back-up my song files?
Just looking at new options...
I have SilverKeeper v1.1.4 and it works fine on 10.5.4.
I have a 160MB internal HD in my laptop.
I have a 500MB Lacie external FW drive which I have partitioned into music and internal HD backup.
On the Lacie Music partition I keep my Logic Projects
On the internal HD I keep all my programs/Loops/SW instruments
I have a 60MB external FW drive which I use to backup my Lacie external Music partition using SilverKeeper
I use Time Machine to backup my HD internal drive to the Lacie
Time Machine seems pretty "brute force" from what I can tell. Unlike SilverKeeper I can't find the sort of flexible options that SilverKeeper provides. But you should have no problem continuing to use SilverKeeper.
Good Luck
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