Network Backup software

can anyone recommend a good back up software, i need to do weekly backups of photos and movies to my Network drive, some people use time machine, but im looking for other options.

other options include ChronoSync and [Tri-Backup|http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html].
edit: darn, didn't realize the thread was ancient until after pulling the trigger
JGG
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Hopefully i'm in the right forum!
I have three macs which i usually backup over a network using Netvault Backbone software. Due to a recent hardware failure, one mac has been completely re-installed complete with a new hdd (os 10.5.8), and another has been upgraded to 10.6.1.
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cd /
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The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features.

I am trying to set up timeMachine on my new mac book pro over a regular home network on a shared network drive. I have tried everything but I keep getting "The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features." I am on lion with the lateset unpdate (10.7.4). I have even tried creating sparebundles on from tutorial that I have found online, but non of the hacks that I have tried seemed to work. Have anyone figured out a way around this? If so, can you share, it will be greatful. I could just buy the time capsule that apple sells but I already have a 2TB internal HDD in an old pc that's hosting my file server so no need for the time capsule hardware. Let me know if there is a way around this thank.

ookakaa wrote:
1) Apple time capsule
Or USB drive connected to a Time Capsule
2) NAS with the latest firmware
Not just any NAS. It has to support the communications protocols used by Time Machine (some involving security, some about error detection and handling). Some NASs never supported TM; some that worked on Leopard never got updated for Snow Leopard; and some that worked on Snow Leopard still haven't been updated for Lion.
4) Another networked mac (not a pc)
A Mac running Leopard 10.5.6 or later.
Are these the only options?
Those are the only options supported by Apple. Some other destinations may work, to some degree, in some circumstances. Some require "hacks" or other workarounds. Most are somewhat unreliable, and, may stop working at all on the next OSX upgrade.
Side note. I've been seeing some online post of how some people are setting up TM on a networked PC drive by setting up a sparsebundle like this site:
Any thoughts? I have tried some of these examples and it don't seem to work...
Some of those may have worked at one time, in some circumstances (2 are dated before Lion was released, the other is undated).
Wireless backups are tricky enough to a supported destination, with all the security and error detection and handling Apple has been able to employ. If your backups are important to you, don't trust them to a marginal scheme.
And, in any event, don't trust your backups to a single piece of hardware or software. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #27 for an explanation and some suggestions.

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Robert Broussard wrote:
Does Time Machine allow me to write to a second HD as the first one is filled? I think the answer is no.
Sort of. TM will back-up only to a single volume at a time. You can combine 2 or more into a +Concatenated Raid Set+ (aka "Just a Bunch of Disks"), and use it as your TM backup volume, but it doesn't sound like that's quite what you want.
You can also swap backup disks easily: use one for a week or so, then take it off-site and swap with another. Each will contain a full, but independent, set of backups. All you have to do is use the +Change Disk+ option in TM Preferences, and try not to go more than about 10 days between swaps, as TM may decide to do a full backup instead of an incremental.
One of the advantages of TM is, via the use of "multi-links," it only backs up what's changed, hourly, but each backup is, in effect, a full, complete copy of your entire system. That's good for full restores (after a hard drive failure, for example), but also to quickly find and recover previous versions of items that were changed or deleted in error ("Save" instead of "Save As"), or somehow corrupted.
It's not a traditional archive-style system, as it automatically deletes your oldest backups when it needs room for new ones, so you have a rotating set of recent backups. But since each is, in effect, a full backup, you don't lose anything current or recent.
Other folks use TM for their boot drive, containing most of their data, and another app for such things as photos, music, and/or video, especially if that is relatively static.
If you haven't investigated Time Machine much yet, you might want to review these:
Time Machine Tutorial
Time Machine 101
How to back up and restore your files
Time Machine Features
and perhaps browse the Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions User Tip at the top of this forum.

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I am having an issue with APC's Network shutdown software. On any Win2k Server I load the software on after logging off from the console I am unable to reconnect to the web interface for the APC Powerchute Network Shutdown software. If I stop and restart the Powerchute Network shutdown service it is fine again until I log back off.
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HT3275 Since updating OS to Mountain Lion from leopard, I get the following error message when trying to backup with time machine on external drive. Could not complete backup to media share. The network backup disk does not support the required AFP feat

Since updating OS to Mountain Lion from leopard, I get the following error message when trying to backup with time machine on external drive. "Could not complete backup to media share. The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features." What are AFP features and how do I get Time Machine to backup to my current external backup?

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jdidion wrote:
BTW, are you saying that if I instead attach this drive to my linux server and attach TM via AFP that Apple will support this in the event that the fsck_hfs problem still occurs?
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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)
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Both are very user-friendly--good for simple folks like me.
http://www.decimus.net/
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
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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
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I need free network analyzer software for my mac. we are trying to monitor what software may be running which is causing our internet to fail, although the internet is still coming into our modem.what is recommended?

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