[G4] G4 OS10.3.9 and G5 with OS 10.4

[Daniel Brieck Jr.]

I also like retrospect. I have been using it for a long time since the 
mac os 8 days. It is a very good program. Never lost any data from it. 
I Agree that it is a little slow on scanning through 300,000 files, but 
it is faster than doing a manual restore... Also I think that they are 
on a better track now with EMC squared running the show. Free updates 
are good.  The reason I think that Dantz is  slow is because the 
application might not be a native os 10 cocoa application. I think it 
is  carbon based. It use to really fly in os 9, but that with much less 
files (10,000). So i don't know if it is the large number of files with 
os 10 or just the software itself that is making it  slow...

Dan Brieck Jr.
On May 5, 2005, at 8:12 PM, Andrew T. Lynch wrote:

> John,
> I do like retrospect desktop.  It runs way faster on my new 2x2.5 G5 
> than it ever ran on my 2x450 G4.  I tend to start it and walk away, 
> but I have about 90Gb of backed up storage, and it backs up a 2-5Gb 
> incremental in 20 minutes or so.  It has saved my a**, I once had to 
> go back 6 snapshots to find a file that had been backed up 5 times 
> since it became corrupted.  You cannot do that with simple sync 
> software.
>
> I back up to external firewire hard drives.  I keep a couple of 
> backups, one at home and one off site.  I swap them weekly.
>
> -Drew
>
> On May 5, 2005, at 5:02 PM, John Erdman wrote:
>
>> I've just ordered a new G5 that will come already loaded with Tiger.  
>> I will be setting it up in a home office about an hour from here 
>> while my trusty G4 with Panther will stay here. I'll  have full back 
>> ups for both computers plus photos and music files in an external 
>> drive that I can carry back and forth. These are just hobby computers 
>> so my livelihood doesn't require  complete synchronizations and 
>> rigorous backups.
>> , but I probably will want to sync a few things occasionally such as 
>> address books, mail files, and bookmarks.
>>
>> I tried Retrospect once and wasn't impressed with the slowness. I 
>> gave up after several hours of what seemed to be fruitless churning.
>>
>> I've never had to deal with this before. Any suggestions for simple 
>> synch software? Synch strategies? Any reading suggestions? I'll be 
>> using both computers. So the files will have different content that 
>> will need to be merged rather than just accepting the file with the 
>> latest modification date. And oh yes, I don't have a .mac account and 
>> one computer is dial up, the other is cable DSL.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>> John
>> Peaks Island, Maine