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
