Backup Software?

I am looking for some simple, (hopefully free) software to backup certain folders to a network drive. I want to make sure my music and photos are backed up at least once a month. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

Hamster:
The most popular backup utilities for Mac OS X are Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper. SuperDuper has a simpler interface while CCC offers greater flexibility in terms of what you want to select. In your case either will be fine. You want to backup your entire Users Folder, which contains your data and Library. You can do incremental backups, easier with SuperDuper. They can both be used for free, although by registering SuperDuper you have a few more options.
Hope this is helpful.
Good luck.
cornelius

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In need of backup software

Hello there. Does anyone have a recommendation for good backup software? I need something that can syncronize some of my folders to an external hard drive. Thank.

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)
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.
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Need backup software for Seagate external hard drive

I need a little handholding here. I have an iBook G4 running 10.4.10. My husband bought me a Seagate external hard drive to use to back up the hard drive on my iBook. The only problem is that I don't think the external hard drive came with any software. I'm looking for something that I can set once that will automatically back up my hard drive periodically. Does such a thing exist?
Thanks for any advice you can provide.

Hi there-
Most good backup software allows you to schedule backups. I've tried a number of programs and the two best I've found are SuperDuper and Synk.
Both are very user-friendly--good for simple folks like me.
http://www.decimus.net/
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
SuperDuper is my favorite because it easily allows you to "clone" your hard drive, giving you a bootable backup in case the worst happens to your computer and you need to restore everything. It's MUCH faster than reinstalling everything. You need to make sure your external hard drive is capable of being booted from, however.
Synk is also very user friendly and you can try it for 30 days for free. I would highly recommend either of these.
Hope this helps.

RELIABLE data backup software recommendation for MacBook Pro WANTED!

I own Retrospect 6.x and I must say that on the intel platform it is less than stellar. On my 15" Powerbook I would get about 90MB/minute and on my new 17" MacBook Pro I am getting about 30MB/minute, which is taking FOREVER. Can someone PLEASE recommend some reliable data backup software in universal binary that will obtain backup speeds similar to what I use to get out of Retrospect on my powerbook? Thank you kindly!
Scott

Welcome to the forum,
If you don’t have a .Mac account, you may want to consider it. It has a fairly respectable BackUp feature that’s quite good and very well integrated to your Mac. I strongly recommend it. Can’t say much compared to the speed of Retrospect although it does perform incremental backups as well as a host of other options. Hope that you may find this useful, etc.
References:
http://www.mac.com/1/solutions/backup.html
http://www.mac.com/WebObjects/Welcome.woa?aff=consumer&cty=US&lang=en
Regards,
2.16 MBP (FW 1.0.1) Week-12 build Mac OS X (10.4.6) G4 Tower (OS 9/10), Dell 620 WorkStation (XP Pro), Gateway P4 (XP Home)

Free and great backup software ??

Hello,
We are looking for a free and faster backup software with GUI or NOT ....
Amount of data to backup is up to 150go per day on hard drive to another drive.
Any suggestion ?
Thank you.

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Third party backup software, how is the log sequence working?

Me and a colleague had a discussion about how third party software and full backups locally on the SQL works together.
If we use TSM that do full backups and then logbackups every hour in between for example.
If I between the two full backups from TSM accidently do a "non copy-only" full backup do I then also break the whole log sequence backup from then and untill the next TSM backup is?
Or can I use the full backup from my mistake and then take the log backups from TSM that occured after that fail and restore the database?
I guess this depends on the third party backup software, but in my mind it should work but according to him it doesn't.
Try to "paint" how I mean:
I = full TSM backup
- = log TSM
F = my fail backup full but not copy only.
I---F-------I
^ is where I would want to restore with both my full one and the logs from TSM. Hope you understand what I mean.

yes, you should be able to use the full backup taken in middle and use the rest of the log backups taken afterwards to restore the database.while I do not use TSM, we use QUEST(DELL) LITESPEED, that takes full backup once a day and log backups
every 15mins.
if someone accidentally takes full backup in the middle of day with out 'copy only',
log sequence will break and successive log backups depend on this full back up.
while this should be prevented from happening in first place, you can still restore from native full backup and then apply log backups taken from third party taken after the native Full backup.
if this happens, I would restore the FULLBACKP with NORECOVERY using NATIVE SQL and then use lite speed syntax to restore the log backups.Remember, native sql cannot read third party formatted backups(atleast litespeed), thats why I restore the full backup
using native sql, since it was taken with native sql backup and log backups using litespeed syntax.
Hope it Helps!!
Thanks, well it was just a theory discussion we had about the issue. But none of us could find info on the internet easy to prove our point :) Thanks.

Oracle Backup software in 10G

Currently we are using RMAN along with Tivoli to manage our backups. Any one has experience with Oracle backup software solution in 10G?
Thanks
Prakash

Safest bet is to avoid multiple homes. But if you thrive on pain...
Start -> Programs -> Oracle - homename -> Oracle Installation Products -> Universal Installer.
Click on Installed Products... then choose the Environment tab.
Actually, using the 10.2 Documentation library Search function, you will find the same thing.
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Backup software for early '04 iBook?

I bought a used early '04 1.07GHz 12" iBook (M9426LL/A) w/no restore software. Tiger was already loaded which I have updated to 10.4.11 but I'd like to have backup software. Apple tells me this iBook had Panther 10.3.3 installed when new. Question: Is there any need to purchase original software as backup (in case of a crash, resale, erase personal data from hard drive, etc.) or, at this point, will a retail copy of Tiger suffice? I have looked for 10.3.3 restore software on eBay and Craigslist but seems hard to come by unless I want pay Apple $$$.
Thanks all.

Gotcha. I guess what's confusing are eBay ads like this one:
+MAC OS X 10.4 TIGER INSTALL DVD - FULL RETAIL VERSION+
+This Mac OS X Tiger is a FULL INSTALL version of 10.4 upgradable to 10.4.11 free through Apple website and it will install on any Mac as long as you meet hardware requirements listed below.+
+You will receive 1 DVD with full version.+
+System Requirement:+
+-Power G3, G4, G5.+
+-DVD drive.+
+-256 MB memory at least.+
+-3 GB available HD space.+
+This is a FULL version, NOT an upgrade which can't do a full install.+
I've seen retail Tiger UPGRADE discs available on Craigslist and eBay. It's a little confusing which does what and which is the one I might need.

Bootable backup software

First of all, what's a bootable backup? I have a WD 320GB Mybook (fire wire/usb) backup drive. WD said that their included software doesn't create a bootable drive. I asked them because I told it to back up everything and it did except for 168 files. I guess I want a bootable drive because if I lost everything, I could restore everything? What do you recommend? Is WD backup software enough? If I need a bootable backup software, what free or low cost one would you recommend? Hope that all makes sense?

Hello! AS has been mentioned a "bootable backup" is a "clone" or "exact copy" of your main drive and one that will be bootable in an emergency. It can be on an external firewire drive or it can be on a separate "volume" of your main drive or reside on a secondary physical drive. SD and CCC have been mentioned but you can also use the Apple Disk Utility to produce one following Kappy's advice. Tom
Kappy's Steps to Produce a bootable clone
Prep external FW drive:
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (journaled, if available) and click on the Erase button. This step can be skipped if the destination has already been freshly erased.
4. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
5. Select the backup or destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Select the startup or source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
8. Select the destination drive on the Desktop and press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. At the bottom in the Ownership and Permissions section be sure the box labeled "Ignore Permissions on this Volume" is unchecked. Verify the settings for Ownership and Permissions as follows: Owner=system with read/write; Group=admin with read/write; Other with read-only. If they are not correct then reset them.
For added precaution you can boot into safe mode before doing the clone.

Are we suppose to see LUNs in the Backup software ? | node-scope is disabled

Hi, If anyone can confirm this to me ?
Are we supposet to see LUNS in the backup software for Cluster Mode 8.3RC1 ? I have disabled 'node-sope' and added cluster using cluster mgmt LIF, I am able to see 'all' the volumes under SVMS, but cannot see LUNS. Is this normal ? Thanks,-Ashwin

Hi Deepu, Thanks for attending this query. Actually, the article is about the resources [volumes/Tape Drives] with respect to NDMP Node-scope vs vserver. This does not tell help in selecting the LUNs. In the Backup windows when I click 'Content' tab to includes the resources - Only volumes are exported with SVM names. I found the workaround by manually adding the LUN to the volume. Example - /svm/volumename Manually add the LUN by placing '/' , example - /svm/volumename/lunname ---- This works. Thanks,-Ashwin

The best backup software for mac os 10.4.8?

Hi,
I'm new on mac, I just got tired of PC and windows so I decided to make a change, a really good change.
First of all to say that I've been looking for an answer of this question around the forums, but havn't got what I'm looking for. What I've found is that people prefere freeware, I just want good stuff.
I'm not sure if this is the right forum to place my topic, but is not a bad one either.
Anyway, here is my question.
I need to clone and do incremental backups, but I have to be extremely sure that the software I use is completly trustfull and secure, so I do not care if I have to pay 100€ (not much more thouh), just want to be sure I get everything works right.
I also prefere software that only does clone and backups than a multitask soft.
Well, if u have any question just ask, u're the ones who really know about this things.
Thanks, everything is wellcome here.

You will find information on backup in this:
Kappy's Personal Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
For disk repairs use Disk Utility. For situations DU cannot handle the best third-party utilities are: Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.0 is now Intel Mac compatible. TechTool Pro provides additional repair options including file repair and recovery, system diagnostics, and disk defragmentation. TechTool Pro 4.5.2 is Intel Mac compatible; Drive Genius is similar to TechTool Pro in terms of the various repair services provided. The current version, 1.5.1, is Intel Mac compatible.
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep.
OS X automatically defrags files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive. As for virus protection there are few if any such animals affecting OS X. You can protect the computer easily using the freeware Open Source virus protection software ClamXAV. Personally I would avoid most commercial anti-virus software because of their potential for causing problems.
I would also recommend downloading the shareware utility TinkerTool System that you can use for periodic maintenance such as removing old logfiles and archives, clearing caches, etc.
For emergency repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the commandline.
When you install any new system software or updates be sure to repair the hard drive and permissions beforehand. I also recommend booting into safe mode before doing system software updates.
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 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)
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.
Additional suggestions will be found in Mac Maintenance Quick Assist.
Referenced software can be found at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
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Mac OS X Leopard Backup Software?

I'm currently using Intego Personal Backup X4 and although it's fairly reliable, it's pretty darn slow. What easy-to-use professional backup software do most Mac users prefer.

Hi Kelly, your on the wrong forum. This forum is for people who have Leopard (10.5) and it has a feature called Time Machine, which automatically backs up your system with an external hard drive, if you have one. With Tiger, (10.4) I am not sure what you mean by software. You should get a small external drive to back up your computer's files and folders if their irreplaceable. As a college student I would lose all my papers, notes, essays, I would be in deep trouble. I could never replace the documents I have, some are ten years old. This is my advise, a small 120, 160, 250Gb external hard drive and back-up all the stuff you would hate to lose. Anything can happen. You may wish to put this in the Tiger forum, just so you get more replies.
Ray

Recommend Backup Software for OS 10.3?

I need to get some backup software so I can backup only new files and files that have been changed. Can someone recommend a good utility for doing this on OS 10.3?
Thank you!

If you get the downloads through another computer online,
be sure they are the correct stand-alone items; then you
can choose to never go online with the 10.3.x computer.
I have and use a USB thumb drive or flash drive to get
extra files between computers so they don't need to go
and do the same duty in duplicate online; this would also
work to get the actual files you needed via another Mac.
Be sure they are the correct ones, first, of course.
There are no currently supported browsers, for the most
part, for Panther 10.3.9; so secure online browsing is a
thing that may be problematic or issue-prone; yet the
internal server to Support updates, and the Software Update
app can probably be used to get info or the files you'd want.
And you need not install all of the found updates; yet by
now, those in-between and questionable ones would be
fewer than they were in the day they were new. I had a
few issues in Panther (and avoided some, then) in the
updates in-between. So, by now, there should be none.
In one sense, the Software Update app may be helpful
in finding the correct names of the files, then get the
few you actually may need, more manually from Support.
The 10.3.9 Combo, and the last security update, plus any
Java update(s) are likely to include actual useful offline
update materials. A few Panther/Tiger users had an odd
issue with going/staying online after one of the small step
updates to 10.3 at one point, and it was problematic. A
last Combo plus security update may avoid the issue.
This may be a mute issue at this late a date; but may be
worth checking into further, as far as it goes. And most
items made for Panther 10.3 generally were updated as
far as the last full stop 10.3.9; a few required that level.
Good luck & happy computing!
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Best backup software? For businesses

Hey guys,
I am looking for a backup software which i program schedules.
I need something that can be set to backup every few mins to daily/weekly. Most important thing is to backup even open files?
Maybe an open PST file or a document a user is working on.
Any ideas ?

Hi,
i will suggest you to go with storageCraft - shadow protect IT edition.
It is cool because it perform backup via disk sector and not file level. Therefore back up & restoration speed is so much faster compare to other products.
With capabilities of High availabilties, virtual boot, image mounting for files recovery & also bare metal restoration.
Trust me because i am one of the users for this product. Really cool
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Best backup software for individual folders?

I already use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a clone of my Macintosh HD to my External HD, but now I'm looking for backup software that will back up just my music, photos, individual folders etc. I like Apple's Backup, but I'm not prepared to pay the money for .Mac when I'm only going to use 1 app. Any suggestions? (preferably freeware, but I don't mind shareware)

i like deja vu very much, although it, too is not free...
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I'm looking for backup software to backup my server that will allow me to easily perfom automatic backups - monthly full backup, weekly incremental backups and occaisional adhoc backup.
the automatic backups can be done with a cli tool, the adhoc I'd prefer a GUI prog.
Hardware:
IBM eServer x345 with 130GB disks (average around 40% full ~50GB)
Dell PowerVault 110T LTO - 100GB native

I just use a script of my own and just call it using cron. All though I don't hold enough data to warrant incremental backups. Here it is.
gary@reddwarf ~ $ cat /usr/local/bin/backup
#!/bin/bash
#backup script for $1
rm $2/backup*.txt
FN="$2/backup-`date +%d-%m-%y`.txt"
STIME=`date +%s`
export FN STIME
echo Setting backup options > $FN
#mt -f /dev/st0 compression 1
mt -f /dev/st0 drvbuffer 1
mt -f /dev/st0 stoptions buffer-writes
echo - >> $FN
echo Starting backup of $1 on `date` >> $FN
echo - >> $FN
tar cvpPWf /dev/st0 $1 -X $1/exclude >> $FN ## -X does not work on this version of tar
#tar cvpPWf /dev/st0 $1 >> $FN
ETIME=`date +%s`
export ETIME
BTIME=`expr $ETIME / 60 - $STIME / 60`
export BTIME
echo Backup of $1 complete and verified in $BTIME minuites>> $FN
#mt -f /dev/st0 offline
There are some incremental backup scripts floating round the fourms.
There are plenty other examples in this thread http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56646
You should be able to coble something together from these. You will have a much finer control writing a little script

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