[X4U] Looking for software that can do incremental backups...

[Randy B.Singer]

Daly Jessup said:

>I know Randy will know all about this, but I can recommend Tri-Backup 
>as a program that works well, is easy to use, and does many kinds of 
>backup, including this one (which they call "evolutive backup".
>
><http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html>


Tri-Backup is an excellent choice.

Other good choices for this:

Impression ($25)
http://babelcompany.com/impression/ 

Personal Backup X ($40)
http://www.intego.com/personalbackup/ 

Retrospect Desktop ($129)
http://www.dantz.com/en/products/mac_desktop/index.dtml

Retrospect Express, which comes free with some hard drives, also can do 
archival backups.

I'm partial to Personal Backup X, because I really like Intego's program 
interface/ease of use.  I'm also impressed with how powerful the program 
is for the price. They substantially updated it recently.  But if you 
have a copy of Retrospect Express that came with a hard drive that you 
purchased, I would go with that.

All of the above choices, except for Retrospect Express, can also span 
multiple removeable media cartridges.

The popular free backup programs: SilverKeeper and CCC, don't do 
archiving. 



Randy B. Singer
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