[X4U] SuperDupper question

[Russell McGaha]

I've been following this thread and wondering why no-one has suggested  
psync/Psynx.  For Cloning / backing up , Disks / Folder(s) it's about  
as simple as it gets [if your not afraid of the CLI and a little  
learning].

Russell

On Mar 25, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:

>> But if you want a full backup program, not a clone program, you are  
>> barking up the wrong tree.
>
> Damn it. This thread misses a whole lot.
>
> OS neXt, as promised by Steve, is UNIX based. UNIX has had backup  
> capabilities that far outperform anything offered in the for-pay  
> world and the stuff is just plain free.
>
> rsnych, cp, mv, perl, cpMac and a whole lot more are delivered with  
> OS neXt and they are open-source programs that you can probably use  
> as is, but if not, you, by yourself, can change them as you like.
>
> Yes. It takes a bit of time to learn about the Mac and its UNIX side  
> but it's a bunch easier to do that than to spend your time  
> complaining about how others do it for you for $$$.
>
> Get thee into Terminal.app or a BBEdit worksheet and have a look at  
> the man pages for those tools. They can and will do what you want  
> the way you want it but you have to take the time to learn about them.
>
> Personally I like to maintain a file with the fully specified paths  
> of the files I want to protect. A perl script that I write and  
> modify as I go along, reads the file and compares dates with the  
> backup disk. If they have been changed the backups get updated.   
> Actually I am now using a scheme, in perl, that doesn't replace  
> anything in the backup disk but adds a copy of the current file with  
> the current date added to the filename. I figure that I'll go  
> through the backup once in a while and clean out old stuff. Alright,  
> I confess, that script runs on ubuntu but it would work fine on OS  
> 10.3.9 which is as far as I can go with my G4 sawtooth and my SE/30  
> file server.
>
> And. . . I do not attempt to save operating system and application  
> files. They are replaceable and the worst that can happen is that  
> preference files might have to be rebuilt. Of course I have bootable  
> disks for recovery but they are the ones from Apple. It's my own  
> data that needs to be protected!
>
> In short. UNIX is your friend. Steve said so. UNIX requires the  
> command line but this entire thread would be zero length if everyone  
> took the time to learn.
>
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