[Ti] Backup suggestions

[philipp schmidt]

On Friday, Jun 20, 2003, at 14:57 Africa/Johannesburg, Jerry Krinock 
wrote:

> I use Synchronize! Pro X written by Qdea Software to automatically run
> weekly Bootable System Backups and daily Home folder backups, one each 
> to a
> Firewire drive which I keep in my cubicle at my day-job, and another 
> which I
> keep at home.  It works and is automatice as can be.  There are other
> packages, and Unix utilities which are of course a lot cheaper if you 
> don't
> mind tinkering and scripting a little to make it go automatically.
>

US$99 - that is quite steep. Has anyone tried any of these Unix 
utilities and got it to work. I am interested in simple folder 
synchronization as a first step and backing up a bootable system to a 
firewire drive as a second option. I found a tool called unison, but it 
requires quite a lot of compiling and downloading and I am reluctant to 
spend half a day playing and then failing to get it to work.

In addition, unison does not handle resource forks. This is my first 
MAC and the concept of the resource fork escapes me, but I wonder if 
any of the UNIX tools would properly handle these files. Or what would 
happen if they would get lost?

Lots of questions.

Thanks. Philipp