Restrospect

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. ...

That enclosure looks suspiciously like the Ice Cube I :confused:

If you've invested a fair amount of money/time in your music library, it should make sense to buy an external hard drive, which is after all the most stable means of data storage, and back up the entire iTunes directory. Better yet, back up your entire home directory -- or your entire computer. It's good to get in the habit, and the best way to get in the habit is to have...

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/ME2FW7250GBJ/ 250GB OWC Mercury Elite 7200RPM Combo FireWire Oxford 911 + USB 2.0/1.1 Solution. **Jumbo 8MB Cache Version** FireWire Cable, USB Cable, Dantz Retrospect Express & Intech SpeedTools included! 2yr Warranty. (OWCME2FW7250GBJ) $209.99

I do large scale deployments and consulting full time and I don't usually hear of stability issues, when things have been properly tuned and setup. Retrospect really wouldn't be close to my first choice in backup solutions, unless you have a very small environment. ...

At my work we lost our server twice due to an incompatibility with Retrospect and our highspeed firewire back up drive. ...

But when I push the button, I get a message saying Retrospect has quit and that's all. ...