[Ti] Please describe how you do backups?

[Chris Olson]

On Apr 5, 2005, at 8:42 PM, Robert Nicholson wrote:

> How do you folks do backups?
>
> Is Retrospect worth the money? I know it's network broadcasting 
> doesn't work properly.
>
> But I need a solid backup solution.

I use rsyncX, back up to the network server:

* my entire home dir (/Users/chris)
* /Applications/
* /Library/WebServer/Documents/ (because I do web development and have 
files there)
* /Library/StartupItems/ (because I have some special startup scripts 
installed there)
* /etc/ (because I have my system highly tweaked)
* /usr/local/ (because I run MySQL and some other Unix software that's 
installed there)
* /opt/ (which your system won't have unless you have Darwin Ports 
installed)
* /sw/ (which your system won't have unless you have Fink installed)

The rest of the system is easily replaced or restored, so it's not 
worth worrying about, IMHO.
--
Chris