[macfantn]

okay so i ran the backup program and it worked fine the first time. Now when I backup again it gets hung up on my itunes library. I have about 10 gigs of music. Anything I need to do? is there a better FREE program than ibackup?

[- - e r i k - -]

You mean the backup that comes with .Mac? I use it all the time to back up over a TB of data. Saved me a few times too. Gradually moving over to Time Machine though

[Peter]

I'd avoid Backup -- I've never heard anything but bad things about it (besides eriks post!)
SuperDuper is well worth the money
Rsync might be a viable option if you're terminal savvy

[freudling]

Get a large USB flash and create an Automator script that goes and gets all the files and folders you want backed up (i.e. Documents, Address Book database, Mail folder...). Additionally, tell it to zip those files, and auto save it to the drive as whatever name you want. When you save this aforementioned as a plugin, just insert your USB into your computer, right click on the desktop and select the automator script from the contextual menu. Sit back and watch it go....

[Demonhood]

ibackup is a completely different app than apple's backup program. also, i'm moving this to applications.