[X4U] Backup Strategies - Need Recommendations!

[Zane H. Healy]

>Therefore, I'm now looking for a good commercial backup program for 
>my server and my network, and is smart enough to get past any 
>permission problems, and finally, a smart copy that only backs up 
>the files that have changed, as the amount of data I must now backup 
>requires that level of efficiency (each of 3 crucial volumes on my 
>server contain an average of 12GB of important data). I tried 
>Retrospect a couple of times, but that was well before switching to 
>MacOS X about a year and 1/2 ago, and I wasn't too impressed with it 
>then. Has anyone used Data Backup by Prosoft Engineering? It looks 
>promising and it looks like I can outfit several workstations 
>economically.

Retrospect is going to be your best bet.  As has been mentioned get 
some external firewire drives, and make sure you keep a copy of your 
data off-site.  If you can afford it I'd really recommend looking 
into a tape drive for your backups, but I suspect it would cost more 
than your budget.  You can buy a *LOT* of Firewire HD's for the cost 
of one tapedrive (or for the cost of a 2-4 tapes).

		Zane

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