[G4] Dantz Retrospect

[Mel Krewall]

Like you, Mike, I have been using Retrospect for years with great 
success. However, I had an unfortunate recent incident with Retrospect 
that, combined with eroding service and higher prices, are making me 
consider other applications. I had a complete backup of my Jaguar boot 
drive that I made immediately prior to a Panther "Archive and Install" 
installation. It became clear that the Archive and Install was not 
going to work with a couple of my applications, so rather than try to 
clean up the mess, I thought, "why not restore my backup and do an 
upgrade install to solve the problem". So, I proceeded to do that. 
Formatted my disk, restored my full backup, and my computer would not 
boot from my main drive. I upgraded over the top of the non-booting 
Jaguar system and it fixed most of the problems, but one of the reasons 
I have always used Retrospect is that I could always be sure it would 
backup and restore correctly.

I have not yet upgraded to version 5.1 (more cost for marginal 
functional improvements), so I don't know if that has anything to do 
with it. Does anyone know if 5.1 fixes the problem I describe? I would 
really like to use Retrospect, and nothing I've looked at does 
everything that it does, but I have to be sure I can trust it.

Does anyone have some good experiences with Carbon Copy Cloner doing 
daily incremental backups that they can relate here?
Thanks,
Mel

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On Dec 6, 2003, at 7:30 AM, Michael L. Brown wrote:

> Yes, it not only copies the invisible files, but also the links 
> between the files that the system will require when you recover those 
> files.
>
> I agree, Retrospect is slow, but it is thorough and designed to backup 
> over a net work. There are a couple other good alternatives such as 
> Edre Ti-Backup, FoldersSynchronizer, and CarbonCopy X, but I started 
> using Restrospect with version 1.1 and upgraded it when I could afford 
> to.
>
> Mike
>
>> What is the difference between backing up with Dantz Retrospect and
>> just copying my whole hard drive over to the external drive?
>>
>> It seems to take a long time for Dantz to do a backup - still
>> about an hour. I have 40 gigs to back up, 896 MB RAM,
>> am using Firewire port.
>>
>> If I were doing plain copy, I would just drag over the
>> document folders and leave the system and apps folders
>> alone.
>>
>> Does Dantz take invisible files, is that it?
>>
>> I'm not trying to make a bootable drive, just to keep a current
>> system and backup documents so I can copy things back after fixing
>> a problem.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.
>>
>> Anne Keller Smith
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