Restrospect

to me CCC is the best. Retrospect ould back up to dvd but for me it was painfully slow to my firewire external burner. ...

retrospect isn't....i'm not sure about carbon :|

I've used both Carbon Copy Cloner and Retrospect...I enjoy Retrospect much more than i did Carbon Copy Cloner.....Just my opnion. Retrospect is just a bit more stable for me and a bit quicker and a bit easier to use.... ...

Is there a unix guru here that can tell me whats happening and what I should look for to stop my system loosing his users? This is my setup: G5 1,6 OSX 10.2.8 first harddisk has the OSX system on the first partition, the second partition is a scratchdisk second and third harddisk are mirrorred and contain the users desktops (yes, the users desktops are not on...

That's a lot of questions for 'one last query':p You're talking semantics here. The only choice you have is the 'erase'. which re-formats the drive, in this case erase=initialize (removes partitions if you want to, just choose the device itself to erase, rather than one partition, which simply erases that partition.) there's also an option button there, which gives you a...

Finally, I recently purchased a firewire external drive, and have Retrospect Express ... ...

Retrospect (this gets used every night for at least 10 hours straight) Freehand InDesign Pagemaker Dreamweaver Photoshop Fireworks Safari iTunes Mail

First question: Are you having any problems with your system? Which volumes are good, and are you certain? Does Disk Utility show all these volumes on your external drive also? Does Disk Utility information tab show that you have 200 GB total capacity in the drive? Have you tried a repair of the existing volumes on that external drive with the First Aid tab in Disk Utility?...

I am running OS 10.2.6 on a 350 MHz slot-loading iMac with a number of partitions and a new Maxtor 200 GB external drive. I have noticed recently that when I do a listing of my volumes in Terminal, the Maxtor drive is duplicated. I have tried to exorcise one of them without success, and I don't quite understand what is going on. Following is my Terminal data: jfwoods% ls...

One is 10.2.6 server. This is used as a local mail server. I have just installed Retrospect 5 on the server to back up various things including my Apple mail data. ...