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

[John Erdman]

But is Retrospect the software to use to sync the address files or 
bookmarks where I will have added different address data into the two 
computers at different times. Two or three times a year I'd like to be 
able to merge the two files without creating a bunch of duplicates.

-John


On May 5, 2005, at 20:12, 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