Comments on: My Mostly Easy, Redundant But Not Completely Automated Mac Backup Scheme

By: pjsherman

pjsherman — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:51:32 +0000

Thanks for the tip Edward. The command line is prob. the way to go for
full automation and fine-grained control…

-Paul

By: Edward Iglesias

Edward Iglesias — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:02:39 +0000

FWIW I moved to a mac and used command line backups with rsync and cron. Here is a howto.

http://library.ccsu.edu/staffblog/?s=rsync&x=0&y=0

By: pjsherman

pjsherman — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:51:32 +0000

Thanks for the tip Edward. The command line is prob. the way to go for
full automation and fine-grained control…

-Paul

By: Edward Iglesias

Edward Iglesias — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:02:39 +0000

FWIW I moved to a mac and used command line backups with rsync and cron. Here is a howto.

http://library.ccsu.edu/staffblog/?s=rsync&x=0&y=0

By: admin

admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:14:53 +0000

That’s a good suggestion, thanks Kjartan! I will look into Mozy.

By the way, the USB/NAS drives I use are the Simpletech Simpleshare drive, and the NexStar LX NAS drive. So far they’ve worked well, no complaints.

By: Kjartan Michalsen

Kjartan Michalsen — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:06:46 +0000

I have solved my backup need with time machine and Mozy backup service (40$ a year or so). Mozy is online, so I have of-site, and does incrimental – so after the first 160gb that took a couple of week with the machine on while at work – I am now up to date, and backed up twice a day ofsite – with the time machine disk for the normal hour backup! I have gotten quite paranoid, after owning two lacie disks (DONT buy lacie, I have learned about other with them failing) – one mirroring the other, and the first failed – and before I could get it back from repairs, the second one failed (USB board) – so only after taking the IDE drive out, I got my stuff back. Good luck, and as they say – the one who laughs last, probably has backup ;)