At 19:40 +1100 23/12/2001, Troy May wrote:
I'm confused as to why it's so hard to get the backup app's working? What exactly is it that prevents one from just dragging and dropping the contents of one disk onto another?
That ain't a backup strategy :-)
Is it some kind of dependency on pathnames tied to a volume/partition name or what?
Basically Apple had to make some changes to Mac OS X for Retrospect to be able to get the right information to be able to do its thing. That's done now, and Dantz is working on getting Retrospect 5 finished.
How do traditional Unix's (Unices?) handle backups?
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