Jerry et al, I tried SuperDuper and, while it will work, its method of backing everything up except what's excluded by script makes it a little more cumbersome to set up than I'd like. And it does not appear that it will allow the destination to be a folder on another hard drive; it must be the drive itself. There may be scripting workarounds to that, but not obviously apparent ones.
Apple's Backup does incremental and full backups quite well, and that's what I use for my personal computer's home folder. But it won't, to my knowledge, allow you to create a mirror of one drive's file structure on another drive ? and it uses its own proprietary file type for the backup files that requires having Backup installed on any computer that needs to access those files. In my case I need for anyone on the network to be able to access and use the files regardless of whether they have Backup installed or not. I want to keep up-to-date duplicate copies of several folders on two different drives. The amount of data that must be checked between source and destination and mirrored each night is in the 200-250GB range (though only 10 or 20 GB of that will actually be new or changed files on any given day), which means it has to have a "smart update" feature that only copies changed or new files. So I'm still looking for the perfect option... Dan > i use [1] superduper. time machine in leopard may provide the same > capability. best...jf > > [1] http://www.shirt-pocket.com/ >
