Restrospect

You are welcome. Actually, the LaCie backup software for OS X is SilverKeeper. Silverlining is for older OSs. I have heard good things about it, but have not used it because I do so much cloning and don't add many files to my iBook.

Thanks folks, thats exactly the kind of stuff I was after. I've looked into Retrospect and it sounds like a great package - and cost effective too (of course anything that prevents data loss is cost effective). Since the PC and Mac are networked, I was thinking of doing backups to the PCs secondary harddisk. I do have an external Wolverine drive, but its USB and too slow to...

It's not free but I have started using Retrospect Desktop with a dedicated hard drive. ...

Sorry... was in a hurry. Here is what I did: a) Did a full backup of my drive using Retrospect b) Ran disk utility to fix disk permissions c) applied any updates (I had a few outstanding) via software update panel d) Repeated Step B again e) Did the "Upgrade" of Panther. All went well.

Yep, can confirm that (would have needed it yesterday and had to resort to a Panther installation I had on an external backup). Also: Retrospect Express 6.0 also doesn't work for me. Right now, I have to backup by hand. :/

a genuine Apple backup solution with advanced features. I've been waiting for it since I purchased my first Mac in 1984 here in Bavaria, Germany. Purchased Dantz Retrospect about ten years ago, performing synchronized backups of all internal disks every evening. ...

Ive got a hp surestore dat 24 drive and it shows up fine with mac os 9, i have updated, finally to osx 10.3 lol and it doesnt show up, im using Retrospect 6.0. ...

Or just do the overnight back up thing and schedule it too with Retrospect to a tape drive or similar back up. You could set it to copy to a firewire hard drive, or whatever you wanted. ...

In retrospect, I probably should have posted this to the bugs thread.

SDLT is a nice, widely used and supported technology. I'd look around to see what drives Apple may sell on their store, as they may have a bundled BRU license. If not, call Tolis Group (BRU). I can give you a good contact there, who can really get the info you need for you. This way, you'll be sure that the drive you settle on is fully supported by the software. For...