Kaye and Peter - thanks for getting back to me with your responses to my query.
Peter, I use Apple Mail as an email client and backup with Time Machine - information I should have included in my original email. Thanks again to both of you. Cheers, Graham > On 29 Aug 2016, at 7:47 AM, Peter Hinchliffe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> On 27 Aug 2016, at 9:38 AM, Graham Rabe <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I read about a program called Chronosync recently which claims to >> synchronize, backup, and create bootable backups to almost anything you can >> connect to your Mac: external drives, NAS drives, other Macs, PC's or >> anything else you can mount as a volume. Even sync to iPads and iPhones. >> >> Has anyone used this program and if so would you recommend it? Seemless and >> regular syncing my iMac with my laptop would be great. > > I have no personal experience with Chronosync, but I am aware that it ha a > very good reputation. If they have a trial version you can try it would be > well worth a look. > >> >> Another matter - I regularly back up to an external drive but am wondering >> what my restored Mail from that backup would look like if I had to do a >> restore for whatever reason. Would all my folders be restored exactly as >> they are now? If not, are there any recommendations for a program that would >> achieve that in the event of having to do a full restore. Maybe Chronosync >> does? > > It all depends on what you use as an email client. Apple Mall , for example, > uses the standard Mbox format, whereas MS Outlook uses its own proprietary > format. The advantage of the Mbox format and othere like it is that you can > recover and read individual emails messages from a backup. With Outlook this > is not so easy. > > In either case, interpreting the folder structure from a bundle of files in a > backup is difficult without the client software itself. Apple Mail keeps all > of its resources in a single folder called Mail in your ~/Library folder, and > it’s this whole folder that you want to recover, rather than trying to > reconstruct the file system yourself. All decent backup systems should handle > this perfectly, from Time Machine up to full cloners like Chronosync and > Carbon Copy Cloner. As long as your Mail folder is backed up in its entirety, > restoring it in the event of a disaster shouldn’t be a problem. > > > Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services > FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer > Perth, Western Australia > Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Graham Rabe | Barrister & Solicitor | Commercial Litigation Consultant & Mediator Suite 94, 50 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000 M: +61 417 949 825 E: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Skype: graham.rabe Web: www.rabe.com.au <http://www.rabe.com.au/> This e-mail communication and any attachment is intended only for the addressee and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential material. If you are not the addressee or intended recipient of the communication, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail. Do not read, copy, print, re-transmit, store or act in reliance on the communication. Please delete the message and any attachments permanently from your e-mail system. The legal privilege and confidentiality attached to this e-mail communication and any attachment is not waived, lost or destroyed by reason of a mistaken delivery to you. Transmission of e-mail communication cannot be guaranteed to be secure, or error-free, as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. To the maximum extent permitted by the law, the sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this e-mail communication
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