[OS X TeX] OT: Backup software

[Antoine Gautier]

I am satified with tri-backup (http://www.tri-edre.com/). Does many  
things, including incremental backups of disks or folders, to other  
disks, disk images or folders. Previous versions of the files are  
easy to find.

Regards,

A. G.


On 9 oct. 06, at 19:56, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> This is OT.
>
> I dutifully backup with Retrospect, say every hour, but just now I  
> needed one of yesterdays versions of one of the over 10000 files  
> that make up the Magnum Opus. And I couldn't get Retrospect to  
> cough-up the file even when given the path name. Of course, I know  
> a Retrospect "expert" who will get me the file but I am fed up.
>
> I just spent over an hour googling for backup software (over  
> FireWire or Ethernet) to an external hard drive and, most  
> important, one that is idiot-proof.
>
> SuperDuper ($27.95) ,  Data Backup ($49),  Intego ($70) all appear  
> reasonable but of course they each claim to be the best. The only  
> Open Source I found was on the terminal so that ruled it out.
>
> I would very much appreciate any suggestion.
>
> Regards
> --schremmer
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