[X4U] Back up ideas/suggestions needed....

[Ed Gould]

On Mar 14, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Jens Selvig wrote:

> Apple's time machine is excellent for your purposes. You still need  
> some sort of archival backup of completed projects/files though.  
> The very nicest thing about Time Machine is that it pretty much  
> just works automatically.
>
> You might think about a program like Retrospect and back up to  
> DVDs. The first time through would be painful but after that you  
> will only be doing incrementally changed files which means the  
> backup will go much more quickly. I'd still do a full back up once  
> in a while maybe monthly or quarterly.
>
> As Stan Gould said you probably don't have much real need to backup  
> your applications and System files all that often. Once you  
> elimanate those files backing up to remote storage, such as  
> Apple's .Mac is also workable. I use my .Mac storage for offsite  
> backups and it works very well for me.
>
> Jens
>
> -------------JEns.

I can't use it as I thought I said I was stuck at 10.4 for forever  
and as far as I know as I need classic for word processing. DON't  
Even get me started on Sheepshaver I won't put it on my machine. So  
drop that idea. I thought I said that in my post about being stuck on  
10.4)
Ed