[Ti] re: Retrospect vs. ABS Plus (back-up solutions) + synch solutions

[T Molnar]

Haven't checked this but I don't think SuperDuper is meant to act in 
anyway as "backup"  application.
I think that is stated in the "readme" for it.  Haven't looked at that 
for a while though.

cheers,
tim

On 27-Oct-04, at 7:28 AM, Malcolm Hamilton wrote:

> Hi there,
> Thanks for all the replies about back-up solutions.  I ended up buying 
> SuperDuper, partly because of descriptions of its speed, and indeed, 
> when I backed up my whole hard drive, it was noticeably faster than 
> Retrospect... but I was disappointed to learn that in fact, it can't 
> do incremental backups...
> For some of you, SuperDuper can do a whole new backup while you get a 
> cup of coffee, but for me (400MHz powerbook G4), sad to say, an 
> incremental Retrospect back-up, slow as it is, is faster than a whole 
> new SuperDuper backup.
>
> Anyone have anything good or bad to say about 'You Synchronize'?  I 
> have a G4 desktop as well as my Titanium, and I'd like to keep them 
> synched, if it's fast and easy... and by that I mean I don't want an 
> old file on one machine, that I've made one little recent change to, 
> to replace a much more current file on the other machine, that I 
> haven't changed for a few days.
> Any comments?
> Regards,
> Malcolm
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