[G4] G4 OS10.3.9 and G5 with OS 10.4

[Andrew T. Lynch]

John,
I do like retrospect desktop.  It runs way faster on my new 2x2.5 G5  
than it ever ran on my 2x450 G4.  I tend to start it and walk away,  
but I have about 90Gb of backed up storage, and it backs up a 2-5Gb  
incremental in 20 minutes or so.  It has saved my a**, I once had to  
go back 6 snapshots to find a file that had been backed up 5 times  
since it became corrupted.  You cannot do that with simple sync  
software.

I back up to external firewire hard drives.  I keep a couple of  
backups, one at home and one off site.  I swap them weekly.

-Drew

On May 5, 2005, at 5:02 PM, John Erdman wrote:

> I've just ordered a new G5 that will come already loaded with  
> Tiger.  I will be setting it up in a home office about an hour from  
> here while my trusty G4 with Panther will stay here. I'll  have  
> full back ups for both computers plus photos and music files in an  
> external drive that I can carry back and forth. These are just  
> hobby computers so my livelihood doesn't require  complete  
> synchronizations and rigorous backups.
> , but I probably will want to sync a few things occasionally such  
> as address books, mail files, and bookmarks.
>
> I tried Retrospect once and wasn't impressed with the slowness. I  
> gave up after several hours of what seemed to be fruitless churning.
>
> I've never had to deal with this before. Any suggestions for simple  
> synch software? Synch strategies? Any reading suggestions? I'll be  
> using both computers. So the files will have different content that  
> will need to be merged rather than just accepting the file with the  
> latest modification date. And oh yes, I don't have a .mac account  
> and one computer is dial up, the other is cable DSL.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> John
> Peaks Island, Maine
>
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