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? >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >> be October 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >> Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> > >_______________________________________________ >The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >be October 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
