Restrospect

Let me guess. You added the clients by address instead of letting retrospect search for them. That'll mess you up. As you noticed. I suspect all you can do now is tell Retro to forget each client, then restart with the client machines on, then let Retro search. If they're all on the same router it doesn't matter that the actual IPs change.

And the Retrospect logs do not show someone restoring the backup over the files. Just in case someone was think that was the case. ...

Filemaker, Retrospect etc. ...

I ended up buying a Maxtor firewire drive for simple backups. The included software is Retrospect express and it is soing what I need. ...

I guess in retrospect I'm sure it was fine that she identified it as a Mac laptop. ...

I use an external Firewire drive with Retrospect Desktop. I don't use it to clone my primary drive but to make full and incremental backups of that drive. Works well for me. ...

If you decide to buy an external drive, keep in mind that many drives come prepackaged with backup software. Many of these apps (Retrospect Express, etc.) are fairly usable. So before you buy a separate software package, you should see what comes with the external drive. My feeling is that 80% of the world's backup software is essentially interchangeable for 80% of the...

All I really have on my computer that I would like to recover, if something did happen, is my writing and my music. That's pretty much it. And I can back up copies of those things on CDs. Plus, it's a lot cheaper than buying an external HD. ;)

Also, Retrospect runs everynight and does an incremental backup to the backed up files. I think the "sync" programs I mentioned also do incremental backups. ...

I use Retrospect to backup from multiple computers over the ethernet onto an external hard drive. ...