Marlyse, is it able to backup libary and system over the network without problems? If so, I might give it a try. Thanks
All the best Matthias ----------------------------------------------- Admilon Consulting GmbH http://www.admilon.com iChat/AIM: MatKoyasan Tel. +81-736-56-3905 ----------------------------------------------- Am/On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:39:12 -0600 schrieb/wrote Marlyse Comte: >yes, similar, but I hadn't liked DejaVu because of the network backup. >SuperDuper! works just fine over the network, even to mounted external >firewire drives on the network server. > >---marlyse > >------------ former message(s) quotes: ------------- > >>Hello, >> >>I'm using Déjà Vu, but I'm not happy with Network Backup. >>It's slow and I can't backup my system over the net. >>Everything else works very good. >>I looked at Super Duper! and it looks very simular to Déjà Vu and that, >>what it can do. >> >>All the best >> >>Matthias >> >>----------------------------------------------- >>Admilon Consulting GmbH >>http://www.admilon.com >>iChat/AIM: MatKoyasan >>Tel. +81-736-56-3905 >>----------------------------------------------- >> >>Am/On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 03:07:19 +0100 schrieb/wrote Mikael Byström: >> >>>Marlyse Comte said: >>> >>>>e basically told me the only solution I have is to set ALL my >>>>files which I want to backup over the network to CHMOD 777 and THAT I >>>>definitely was NOT willing to do. >>>That's just a silly response. >>> >>>>I had been happy before with "Synchronize!" - before OSX I had gotten >>>>several clients of mine to use that application because I had loved it >>>>for many years and it had served me well. It just didn't perform well - >>>>for me - under OSX and in my networked environment. >>> >>>Well, if you log in over the network, Synchronize of course need to be >>>logged in as high priv as it needs to get anything done, which isn't >>>completely trivial to do over afp. If you're logged in as you, you should >>>check that all the files needing backing up are fully readable by that >>>account under which you're logged in at the other machine *and* that they >>>are not open. The latter is a bigger problem than permissions, IMHO. >>> >>>>But since I use "Super Duper!" things look sunny again, you can even >>>>write scripts and schedule it and I can easily make backups over a >>>>network. >>>I seriously doubt that it can do anything the account it being logged in >>>as (on the other machine) can't do. Any problem you hint at here, is >>>rooted (pardon the pun) in the fact you need to regard how OS X work >>>permissions. What special unique problems did Synchronize add that >>>doesn't stem from accounts and permissions? >>> >>>> The other application which works well is R-Sync, just that one >>>>does not have a scheduling solution if I remember correctly. >>>There's always Cronnix. R-Sync X, the app (is that what you meant?) has >>>some bugs in it, I believe. I run my own rsync instead. I still need to >>>use scripts for exporting info from open files, however. Which is why I'm >>>looking into this. >>> >>> >>>PM 5.2.3 Swedish | OS X 10.3.9 | Powerbook G4/400Mhz | 1GB RAM | 30GB HD >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > >---marlyse > > >
