At 8:48 PM -0700 3/13/2011, John Carmonne wrote:
On Mar 13, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Scotty wrote:
> Does anyone have a suggestion for a good alternative to time machine
that will run on my DA 733mhz Power Mac?
My old quicksilver ran 10.5 and I am just looking for something that
can perform a similar function as time machine on Leopard.
The scheduled tasks on CCC will do nicely.
The problem is ... speed. Because TM tracks modified files on the
fly, it's already got that tbd list ready to go when it does its
hourly sweep. CCC, otoh, has to re-peruse both the whole source and
destination volumes. A simple way to address this is to have CCC
back up just /Users, not the whole drive. Much much faster!
And, please keep in mind, a backup volume that is kept online is
*vulnerable*. A real backup should be dismounted, spun down, and
unplugged!
Of course, if your project is so critical that you need hourly
backups or better, then perhaps Dropbox is a better solution. It
pushes the modified data offsite - to Amazon's S3 cloud - *as you
make the changes*!
- Dan.
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