[parkds]

After a pretty disastrous hard drive failure the other night (thanks to a kernel panic during shutdown) I am looking to keep this from happening again.
Can anyone recommend a good backup solution. I would love to find some software that looks for new and changed files and only updates those. Having 2 drives left now that have over 80gb each, the thought of re-backing up every single file weekly is a bit daunting.
Thanks for any help or recommendations!

[fisherKing]

check out silverkeeper, lacie's freebie software (u can get it at versiontracker.com)
easy, works well...

[CatOne]

Originally posted by parkds:
After a pretty disastrous hard drive failure the other night (thanks to a kernel panic during shutdown) I am looking to keep this from happening again.
Can anyone recommend a good backup solution. I would love to find some software that looks for new and changed files and only updates those. Having 2 drives left now that have over 80gb each, the thought of re-backing up every single file weekly is a bit daunting.
Thanks for any help or recommendations!

For the incremental update of changed files, look at something like You Synchronise or RsyncX. They can both do this, and they can do it on a schedule (I boot my PB off an external drive and have it synch to the external drive at noon every day, for example).

For archival backups, Impression works well (it's better if the amount of data to back up is < 5 GB).

[Macola]

Deja Vu works great and is reasonably priced.