[Wayward780]

I'm looking to switch to Mac from a life of Windows and am currently investigating my "switch" questions. One of the big ones is how I will back up my client files (I have a home-based business). Normally I'd use Nero BackItUp to schedule a back-up of my clients folder every night to DVD or an external hard drive.

I see a lot about Retrospect but I was thinking that why couldn't I just use a cron job to run a PHP script and copy my business files over to my external hard drive every night? Then again I think Carbon Copy Cloner is freeware and will do this for you so no need to write a custom script. There's probably a way to create an AppleScript to do this as well (am I wrong)? Really it's as simple as copy folder X from drive A to drive B every night.

Let me know your thoughts, thanks.

[eggman]

A script or PHP will do for document files... which is what it sounds like you're most concerned about.

As for myself, CCC or DejaVu is a better solution because I want a bootable clone of my hard disk in case of catastrophic failure. Those apps use psync, which preserves permissions and other minutia that's needed to for a copy of your hard disk to be booted in case of the failure of the primary drive.

[Wayward780]

But CCC will just copy a certain folder too won't it? That would work for me as well.