>>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.
of course it was. and it was frustrating because that was the answer I got right after upgrading to the latest version in the hoped that this would handle the problems. >>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. trust me, I WAS logged in as high priv (root) and I am myself not too un- savy when it comes to computer support plus I have my husband around who has a big network (PC and Mac mix) and does a lot of support and builds his own machines etc. and he double-checked that I didn't overlook anything. It just plain didn't work and was a hassle with which I dealt for many hours until I had enough. But this is already more than a year ago, soon two and so I forget the details of it all, gets foggy, ya know? :-) >>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? Trust me - it WAS like that. Now, it might have changed meanwhile and the problems might have been fixed with it - but - I really don't care any longer. I have a new solution which works without a hiccup and that's all what I need. >> 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. > R-SyncX, yes. I liked SuperDuper! better and this is the reason I'm using it. But R-SyncX is free and will be sufficient for many users, I know we've backed up many older machines before upgrading with R-SyncX with good results. If buggy or not, I can't say, but the overall performance seemed very useful. Not sure how SuperDuper! handles the open files issue, this of course is always an issue, backing up while application is open. Good luck with your search! ---marlyse
