[OS X TeX] OT: Backup software

Gary L. Gray gray at engr.psu.edu
Tue Oct 10 16:53:19 CEST 2006


On Oct 10, 2006, at 6:36 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> 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. And even  
> doing a daily incremental backup takes most of my PowerBook's CPU  
> while the backup is being performed. That's why I'm skeptical about  
> attempting to backup more often. Not even to say cloning the entire  
> hard drive!


Oh yeah, one more thing. ChronoSync uses a bit of CPU, but on a dual  
core machine, I barely notice it. :-)

-- Gary
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