Backup Software (Was: Partitioning Drive?)

[Randy B. Singer]

Florin Alexander Neumann said:

>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).


Just a point of fact.  The pickings for backup software on OS X are not 
even close to "slim."  See:

With a .Mac subscription you get a copy of Backup:
http://www.mac.com/

Retrospect (There are several versions with different capabilities and 
pricing, including Express $49, and Desktop $129.) 
http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=products&sid=4YZg8c0aVUlm6Kdo

Intego's 'Personal Back-Up $60
http://www.intego.com/personalbackup/

Carbon Copy Cloner (donation requested)
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

iMsafe $15
http://homepage.mac.com/sweetcocoa/

Revival $25
http://allmacintosh.xs4all.nl/files/revivalosx.hqx

Synchronize! Pro X $100
http://www.qdea.com/

Synk X (now free)
http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~rvoth/synk4_target.htm
http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~rvoth/ (says Synk is now free)

Tri-BACKUP $49
http://www.tri-edre.com/

BackupToolkit $50
http://www.fwb.com/html/backup_toolkit.html

LaCie SilverKeeper (FREE!)
http://www.silverkeeper.com/

Psync (Free and open source)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/psyncx

SwitchBack ($30 and up)
http://www.glendower.co.nz/switchback.html

Folders Synchronizer X $40
http://www.softobe.com

Chronosync, $20:
http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/chrono_overview.html



Randy B. Singer
Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)

How To Deal With Common Macintosh OS X Jaguar Problems
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