Hi, Le Flaneur.
Originally posted by Le Flaneur:
Perhaps Retrospect is better after all?
IMO, it is.
I use
Dantz's Retrospect Desktop Edition for Mac. This is the state-of-the-art in Mac backup and recovery. It is at the heart of my comprehensive
Backup and Recovery solution.
For example: Retrospect can perform incremental backups, scheduled backups, scripted backups, backup to any media (nice for archiving completed projects to DVD), backup to server volumes, and more. Incremental backups, and the ability to archive to any media are worth the difference and the price.
Retrospect Desktop Edition also includes clients so you can backup up as many as three computers using a single license. Additional client licenses can also be purchased. The clients included are for Mac, Windows, and Linux so if you have a heterogeneous environment at home or in a small office, you cna backup more than just your Mac.
Retrospect's Immediate functions (Backup, Duplicate, Restore) are very easy to use. It also comes with an excellent, detailed manual, as well as extensive Help, for all its advanced features.
The other thing you need to consider with Backup and Recovery is
Recovery. Some solutions make it easy to Backup, but give little thought to a Recovery operation. IMO, Retrospect has this covered better than any solution available. After all, the reason you implement a Backup and Recovery solution is for a comprehensive Backup and a painless, complete Recovery should disaster strike. Before you select a solution, look deeply into the Recovery side of things.
A free 30-day trial version can be downloaded from the link on
this page.
I would not trust my priceless data to anything less than Retrospect.
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