I haven't had .mac for a while now, but when I did, I could not see 
how to make the Backup program back up to anywhere but .mac.  Did I 
miss something?


At 1:09 PM -0400 10/5/07, Profile wrote:
>Dan
>
>I am a .Mac user and the "Backup" module that comes in the collection 
>of applications works wonderfully.  I have two firewire 800 external 
>drives and I have these scheduled to backup all the files at 
>differing times of days, then the info. that pertains to the home 
>directory is backed up to iDisk.  The first backup is a full, the 
>dailies are only the changed files.  So far it has worked flawlessly.
>
>John R.
>
>
>On Oct 5, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
>
>>  I am looking for the best software to:
>>
>>  1. Create exact copies of files/folders from one external hard drive
>>  to another.
>>  2. Do so on a scheduled basis, i.e., every night at 3 a.m.
>>  3. Only copy or delete new or changed files when creating this one-
>>  way backup (as opposed to a full backup that recopies all files in
>>  the folder).
>>
>>  I have been using LaCie's free Silverkeeper backup software to do
>>  this for several years, but for some reason it is no longer correctly
>>  detecting changed files on the source drive in a particular folder.
>>  Even though the file on the source drive has changed, Silverkeeper
>>  reports that it finds no difference between that file on the source
>>  drive and one of the same name on the destination drive, therefore no
>>  fresh copy is made and the backup is not accurate.
>>
>>  I need either to figure out why Silverkeeper is not working right or
>>  find a new backup program that can do the same thing reliably.
>>
>>  Note that I am _not_ looking for incremental or full backups, as
>>  Apple's Backup program does quite nicely. I'm looking for a "one-way
>>  mirror" backup utility. Every night at a designated time the contents
>>  of Folder A on Source Drive are mirrored on Destination Drive. If any
>>  files have been deleted in Folder A on Source Drive, they will get
>>  deleted in Folder A on Destination; if a file in Folder A on Source
>>  has been added or changed it will be added or changed on Destination.
>>  If a file on Source Drive has not changed and it already exists on
>>  Destination, it will not be touched.
>>
>>  Any recommendations?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
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