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 > > > >
