Hi, I’m doing something I shouldn’t and am answering the question I think you are asking rather than the one you did. I’m going to assume you really want a backup strategy and not necessarily copy the process you are using now.
Both Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) and Super Duper (SD), offer an archival backup mode. So, you can set up a nightly task to copy your selected folder, but rather than deleting the old version if it exists, it will archive the older version for you. This is a poor man’s time machine since it won’t filter out the older versions based on a time. You will see all your changes in as ingle folder. this has the advantage in that it only copies the changes rather than the entire data set. So this incremental backup will go faster and save on total space. But, I think you can reproduce your existing process in CCC or SD by setting up seven weekly jobs that each copied the same folder to a day of the week folder. One of your seven weekly jobs would run on each day of the week. Regardless, I always recommend a complete drive clone of your Mac HD by CCC or SD weekly or monthly as your time allows. I consider time machine a archiving strategy more than a back up strategy. I consider the cloning a real backup. Between the two methods, you usually will turn out ok in a messy disaster. I have had both my internal drive fail and my time machine backup fail at the same time and that clone saved me big time. Good luck. —k Faith doesn’t give you the answers, it merely stops you from asking the questions. On Nov 24, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote: > Just as a follow up to my own inquiry, I think that time machine with a > airport time capsule unit is exactly what I need. I currently have a fairly > elaborate software setup on the windows side via fusion to do essentially > what time machine does, only I can only go back 7 days. > Using a time capsule will give me version control without all the hassle. > It’ll run me a few hundred dollars, but I think it’ll be worth it. > > On Nov 23, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have been using Karen’s power tools Replicator program (a hold over from >> the windows days) to take daily snapshots of my critical working folders, >> and now I want to ditch it for a Mac equivalent such as Hazel. >> Here’s a simple thumbnail of what I want to do. >> Each day of the week I want to move a certain folder to a daily backup folder >> example, on monday, move folder x to folder mondayBackup, On tuesday, move >> folder x to TuesdayBackup etc >> That’s all! This requires that I can check the system date and move a folder >> with options for keeping directory structure and other such bells and >> whistles . Sounds simple enough, but automator confuses the heck out of me >> and Hazel doesn’t seems to allow for actions based on system day and date. >> Are there any good apps that will let me do this? >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
