Time machine has some very nice characteristics, but don't use it over a network.
Check out Crashplan.com -- the basic software is free. I moved my company to it this summer, and it's working great. The free version does a backup once a day, or you can buy a version that can do more frequent backups, like hourly. I use the free version to backup all my family machines to my big home machine. As for powermail - there are a few things I don't like, but for the most part it does what I need and I've not seen anything else that matches it. I get 300-500 emails a day, much of it spam, or "routine" stuff. I toss out about 300+ messages a day. I archive certain folders every year, if I need to search the data, I can. When Powermail 7 comes out, I'll upgrade without a thought. I've lived with it's little bugs and weirdness for years...I've not lost data, and I can find what I need. I'm just happy there are developers who want to create products that so many people are giving away. I hope CTM can keep it's customer base so they can invest in future releases so I hope those who need 2gb+ mail databases can get what they want and stick with the product. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Bill Schjelderup, President [email protected] COMPanion Corporation 801-365-0555 voice 1831 Fort Union Blvd. 801-943-7752 fax Salt Lake City, Utah 84121-3041 www.companioncorp.com +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Nusquam est qui ubique est. - He who is everywhere is nowhere. This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are NOT the intended recipient, I'm sorry to bother you and will attempt to address my messages more carefully in the future. > > >>I just checked - PowerMail is responsible for 90% of of the backup >>activity on my system. (I use TimeMachine). The problem is that if just >>one email comes in an hour (which always happens), the complete database >>gets backed up again. One database per folder would reduce the backup >>requirements dramatically. There would be less load on the system, and >>my Time Machine would be able backups for a much longer time period. > >TimeMachineEditor is a free software to stop TimeMachine's every-hour-backup. >With this software you can choose and program the starting times by your own. >(I'm very satisfied with and make only four TimeMachine-backups a day.) ><http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/> > > >
