[X4U] SuperDupper question

[Neil Laubenthal]

PSyncX has some issues with scheduling and Leopard . . .although I'm  
not really sure if they are an issue with PSyncX of something else.

When I schedule things with PSyncX and they go into the system crontab  
. . . they only actually run if nothing else is in the system crontab.  
Opening the crontab in terminal shows some strange formatting. If  
you've also scheduled an RSync backup series using their rotating  
backup schedule . . .things get all hosed up and don't run correctly .  
. .and I was never ambitious enough to try to run it down.


I used to use it on Tiger and it worked fine . . .even in combination  
with other things . . .but under Leopard it's been problematic so I  
ended up ditching it as a backup utility . . .backups have to be  
reliable.

I'm a great believer in having multiple backups done by multiple  
different methods . . .that way some issue that crops with say PSyncX  
won't affect your backup from CCC or SD or SynchronizePro or whatever.  
I'm also a believer in (mostly) Finder readable backups, although I  
own an older version of Retrospect and used to use it.

I also ran across a page somewhere that compared all of the various  
backup utilities on the market to see which ones correctly backed up  
and restored all of the metadata associated with a file. If you only  
are about the file contents there are a lot of utilities that will do  
the job. If you care about every piece of metadata being properly  
backed up and restored . . . then one by one a majority of the  
available utilities fell out of the picture. PSyncX was (IIRC) not on  
the final list of what worked (at least according to the page author's  
definition of work . . .which again is in the eye of the beholder).

http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/05/the-state-of-backup-and-cloning-tools-under-mac-os-x/

and

http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/mac-backup-software-harmful/

It's from  back in 96 though . . .so isn't up to date.
-- 
neil


Quoting Russell McGaha <RussellMcGaha at mac.com>:

> 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].