[X4U] Backup strategies (was: Emergency post / Disk recovery vs file undelete)

[Brian Lalor]

On Sep 20, 2005, at 1:41 AM, PoolMouse wrote:

> backing up is the best insurance you have against data loss.

Amen to that, brother!  The 80G drive on my PB crapped out two weeks  
ago (the coup de grace of my Hawiian vacation that would have made a  
great National Lampoon movie).  Fortunately, I had the presence of  
mind to archive my photos to CD-RW, and lost only (!) two days worth...

What's a good Tiger-compatible backup solution?  Retrospect still  
doesn't support ACLs and the new file meta data in Tiger...  I also  
want something that's painless (automated, ideally) for use with my  
laptop.

I still haven't decided *how* I want to implement backups; for some  
stuff that never changes (like photos and music), I should be able to  
just keep a clone of those files on another drive or on some optical  
media, but I need incremental backups for other types of data (such  
as the iPhoto and iTunes library files).

Thoughts?

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