recommendations for backup

Submitted by 3dogmama on Sat, 2008-01-19 22:27.

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Hi.
Up until now, I've relied upon others to do my daily backup. Any recommendations on a system for Leopards? Currently have a 500GB Lacie hooked up but it's giving me issues.
Thanks.

DVDs are usually the most

Submitted by natobasso on Mon, 2008-01-21 01:52.

DVDs are usually the most stable, and I've never had good luck with Lacie drives and mac. All hard drives fail eventually, but if you use one, make sure you have double redundancy (drives and dvd).

Ever consider getting a small server? If not, I'd recommend Acom Data drives, but there are many more good ones out there.

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Thanks. I'll look into the

Submitted by 3dogmama on Mon, 2008-01-21 03:00.

Thanks. I'll look into the data drives.

Also, have you heard anything pro or negative about Apple's Time Capsule? I was kind of eyeing up one of those units too. Time Machine really makes backup look effortless.

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I hear Time Machine is good,

Submitted by natobasso on Mon, 2008-01-21 18:06.

I hear Time Machine is good, but for me doing it by hand (and memory) has served me well. As long as I have all my work files in one place, I just let it copy to another drive overnight (or overwrite if it's there already) by hand.

The reason is I got BURNED once by an app called YouSynchronize because it replaced my new files with old files, thereby costing me several hundred dollars in lost work!

More on Time Machine support page:
http://www.apple.com/support/leopard/timemachine/

and a review and history herE:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/12/road_to_mac_os_x_leopard_time_machine.html

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Looking to go to Time Capsule b4 next year

Submitted by ireid on Mon, 2008-01-21 20:47.

But in the meantime EMC Retrospect has served me VERY well. The learning curve's a bit steep but once you set it up, you don't have to worry about it until you need it!

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Submitted by shoaf on Mon, 2008-01-21 19:49.

A few months back, I picked up an external drive from Other World Computing, and most of their drives come with an app called "Prosoft Engineering Data Backup 3". I've been using it on my home machine to basically create a duplicate of my iMac's internal boot drive every night. I've been pretty impressed with the ease and accuracy of it. Way better than the Retrospect software I was using at work.

Speaking of work, I just have Carbon Copy Cloner duplicating my mission-critical files to an external drive every night, plus a manual backup of current projects to a 2nd internal drive whenever I get the urge.

I don't have Leopard yet, so I can't comment on Time Machine yet.