[G4] Dantz Retrospect

[sr ferenczy]

the key features of retrospect that set it apart from free apps that 
use unix applications (mostly psync) is that retrospect allows 
incremental backups, allows "point-in-time" restores (time traveling 
for your system), allows easy backup to optical media, automated 
restoration of past versions of documents, and easier ways of ensuring 
that multiples identical copies of the same file are backup only once 
(saving disk space) but restored twice.

if all you are doing is backing up a single drive, all or nothing, i 
would highly recommend Carbon Copy Cloner by Mike Bombich-it is a 
superb application which uses psync (the unix utility) as its base.

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

its donation-ware

alternatively, if you are running 10.3, apple now has included a 
software backup/restore in the Disk Utility application. i havent used 
this (yet) but have used CCC and retrospect.

sandor


On Dec 6, 2003, at 3:45 AM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Now that I'm using it, why am I?
>
> What is the difference between backing up with Dantz Retrospect and
> just copying my whole hard drive over to the external drive?
>
> It seems to take a long time for Dantz to do a backup - still
> about an hour. I have 40 gigs to back up, 896 MB RAM,
> am using Firewire port.
>
> If I were doing plain copy, I would just drag over the
> document folders and leave the system and apps folders
> alone.
>
> Does Dantz take invisible files, is that it?
>
> I'm not trying to make a bootable drive, just to keep a current
> system and backup documents so I can copy things back after fixing
> a problem.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.
>
> Anne Keller Smith
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