[OS X TeX] OT: Backup software

[Jan Hegewald]

Hello,

Am 10.10.2006 um 12:36 schrieb Bruno Voisin:

> Another concern is size and time: my home directory is about 20 GB,  
> and making a full backup with Backup takes already about 2 hours,  
> which is why I am not able to do it as often as advisable.

Huh? Aren´t you doing an incremental backup? This should be a lot  
faster for only 20GB.

> And even doing a daily incremental backup takes most of my  
> PowerBook's CPU while the backup is being performed.

Maybe you can toggle the nice factor for your backup app, so it will  
not get in the way. (man nice)

> - With the MacPro in which you can put several hard drives, I think  
> I've read somewhere it's possible to create a software RAID with  
> these drives. I've no idea how this can be done, or whether it's  
> built-in somewhere in OS X or requires 3rd-party software,

it is a Mac OS X featuer. You can use DiskUtility to create a RAID,  
even from extern drives.

> but that might also serve as backup.

I can not recommend this, as you can only do a "real time mirror". If  
you delete a file by accident, well it´s also gone on the second  
drive...

> The only problem would be, of course, the fact that all the backups  
> would live within the same machine, so that if something bad  
> happens to that machine (theft, fire, water, ...) then all the  
> backups are lost.

Yes, good point.

> - Last week I just got a MacPro. Given the difference in speed with  
> my venerable PowerBook G4, I will move to the MacPro as my main  
> computer. The only significant problem is email: when all my mail  
> was living on the PowerBook, I could read and send mail from  
> everywhere (home, McDonald's, ...), having all the past  
> correspondence available all the time. Now that I'm reading and  
> sending mail from work on the MacPro during the day, this means I  
> don't have most of the correspondence of the day at home in the  
> evening on the PowerBook

You can connect to an IMAP mailserver an sync your emails to/from it.  
This way you have access to your email from everywhere.

HTH,
-- Jan


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