On 22/4/04 5:41 pm, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On or near 4/22/04 2:42 AM, Kirk McElhearn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > >> On 4/22/04 11:28 AM, "Stephen Duxbury - Prestset" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> This is slightly off topic but I use a programme called Tri-Backup and am >>> actually very pleased with it after having used Retrospect for 10 years or >>> more, but changed over when I went over to OSX. >>> >>> My query is that when I am backing up my other macs on the network it does >>> not seem to back up the 'database' file within the Identities' folder. It >>> does it on my machine, just the others it doesn't. This very nearly caught >>> me out couple of weeks ago when one mac downstairs 'corrupted' its database >>> and wouldn�t fix on that machine. Thankfully my G5 with more oomph and disk >>> space did it ok. When I went to look on the back up the 'database' file was >>> missing out of the folder!! >> >> I used Tri-Backup for a while back in the days of OS 9, and stopped for that >> very reason - I discovered (fortunately before losing them) that many files >> weren't getting backed up, even though I had no settings that limited or >> filtered my backups. I don't trust that program, and never will again. A >> backup program _has_ to be impeccable in what it copies. >> > I have been using the latest version of Tri-Backup, and recently it saved my > ass. I back up my Documents daily, but I was also doing a weekly backup of > my entire hard drive to an external Firewire drive. My internal drive > crashed hard, no data could be recovered; I had to install a new internal > drive, which reverted to OS X 10.1. I had to apply the Jaguar and Panther > upgrades, but then, for all my applications and data files, I recovered from > my backup. Absolutely nothing was missing! Tri-backup saved the day. > > I don't know about the OS 9 version, Kirk, and I don't doubt you when you > say you had problems. I'd be upset, too, if I found files missing, and I > have no answer about backing up other Macs on a network; I just back up my > single machine. But I'm satisified with Tri-Backup for my own use. So far I have been really pleased with Tri-Backup although thankfully never really had to use the whole files from a back up but gone back many times to retrieve odd files from many of the different back-ups. ---------- Stephen Duxbury Prestset, Coronation Business Centre, Hard Ings Road, Keighley BD21 3ND Tel 01535 690573 Fax 01535 611348 www.prestset.co.uk -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
