At 5:55p -0400 2003.05.20, Florin Alexander Neumann wrote: >What do you use for regular backups? The pickings are fairly slim on >the Mac, so I recommend Retrospect, which has a decent track record >(if worse than miserable tech support). Here's an instance. The user >has a PowerBook, a single partition. I teach him how to use >Retrospect. I tell him to dump all files he doesn't need to back up >into a folder called Junk, and show him how to exclude it from the >back up when he does it. He forgets Then perhaps it would be more helpful to create Run files for this forgetful a user. Basically, ensure that he just has to double-click on one icon and his backup (with the proper filters) is initiated. Now I hope he can remembers how to find his blank CDs. -- 'tis as said. [Reality is defined by being described]