Backup advise
I am in need of backup software and general advise.
Here's my situation. I am in an office environment. I have 2 macs (graphic design stations) and we have ZERO backup strategy. I have access to a vast amount of storage capacity via network on a Linux server.
What I want is to be able to do a one time clone type backup for each Mac and then be able to schedule weekly backups. The weekly backups would recoginize what has changed or is new and only overwrite/add this information (if that makes sense).
I have looked into SuperDuper, ibackup, retrospect, etc.
Can anyone point me in a more solid direction?
Thanks,
-Steven
Can anyone point me in a more solid direction?
Check out Deja Vu, it's a lockable System Preference pane that can auto-clone whole drives (like once a week) and auto-backup folders (like every night) even when logged out over a network.
Hard drives do indeed fail, it could happen tommorow morning, backing up files isn't just enough in a buisness setting where time = money.
It would be best to have a external drive on each Mac where Deja Vu will auto-clone once a week. Then auto-backup certain folders to a server and the clone every night. This way in case a boot drive dies, it only take a minute to boot off the clone and go back to work.
Since most utility software requires booting off another drive anyway to fix the primary, even if that fails you can always grab your most recent files and erase and reverse clone back onto the original.
The file backups on the server are just extra gravy, but you don't want to clone to a server, clones (unless to a partition, not really advised) overwrite the target drive. It's a clone after all.
Read my info
http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/Personal6.html
http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/Personal10.html
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/dejavu.html
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