Backing Up your files and HD content.

Just wondered what program everyone was using to back up there files and HD. I tried iBackup but as I have so much music on my MBP it was taking ages to do it. But, then after time if I had added 2 more cd albums to my iTunes then tried to back it up again I had to delete my previous back up and start over. Not the best.
Does anyone know if there is a Back Up program that when you go to Back Up your files for a second time, it just adds the ones missing from your previous back up?
Would love to know as I have already been stung once with my previous PowerBook.
Thanks all..
RICKY
MacBook Pro 2.33Ghz C2D 3GB RAM, MacBook 2.0Ghz C2D 1GB RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.10)   I'm an Apple Pervert.

Get an external Firewire drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Retrospect Desktop (Commercial - not yet universal binary)
2. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
3. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
4. Deja Vu (Shareware)
5. PsynchX 2.1.1 and RsyncX 2.1 (Freeware)
6. Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware - 3.0 is a Universal Binary)
7. SuperDuper! (Commercial)
The following utilities can also be used for backup, but cannot create bootable clones:
1. Backup (requires a .Mac account with Apple both to get the software and to use it.)
2. Toast
3. Impression
4. arRSync
Apple's Backup is a full backup tool capable of also backing up across multiple media such as CD/DVD. However, it cannot create bootable backups. It is primarily an "archiving" utility as are the other two.
Impression and Toast are disk image based backups, only. Particularly useful if you need to backup to CD/DVD across multiple media.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQs on maintenance, optimization, virus protection, and backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.

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