Backuplist+
Nick Naym
backups (Home folder and Applications folder). I tried ChronoSync, but found
it to be somewhat unwieldy.
Reading about Backuplist+, it sounds like it can do everything anyone could
ever want in a backup app -- clone, incremental backups, etc. -- and do so
quickly and easily. Is it really all that good...and for free?
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Warren Oates
Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote:
> I use SuperDuper! and Time Machine. I also want to create some simple folder
> backups (Home folder and Applications folder). I tried ChronoSync, but found
> it to be somewhat unwieldy.
>
> Reading about Backuplist+, it sounds like it can do everything anyone could
> ever want in a backup app -- clone, incremental backups, etc. -- and do so
> quickly and easily. Is it really all that good...and for free?
Probably. It's a GUI frontend for rsync, which is open source free, and
one of the best terminal backup apps for any flavour of Unix. Currently
at version 3.0.7, I use it exclusively for exactly the sort of thing
you're talking about -- home directories, usr/local, like that.
http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
But Backuplist+ may be easier to use.
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Erik Richard Sørensen
Nick Naym wrote:
> I use SuperDuper! and Time Machine. I also want to create some simple folder
> backups (Home folder and Applications folder). I tried ChronoSync, but found
> it to be somewhat unwieldy.
>
> Reading about Backuplist+, it sounds like it can do everything anyone could
> ever want in a backup app -- clone, incremental backups, etc. -- and do so
> quickly and easily. Is it really all that good...and for free?
Indeed! And it's a real great program too. I use it for all my backup,
because I want a full independant and bootable backup. It works just
excellent on both 10.4.x, 10.5.x and the newestversion also on 10.6.x. -
I use it on an Intel MacPro QuadCore, 2x MDDs and a PowerBook G4 without
any problems.
OK, It has failed here once, when I made a backup (10.5.x from my dual
1ghz MDD. This backup wouldn't boot, though it was visible as a bootable
disk, and I wondered and pulled my long grey hair over this. At last I
launched DiskUtility and would try to repair permissions but then came
to look at the buttom right ..."Partition map: MBR"...Ay, what? 'Master
Boot Record' - I had totally forgotten that this disk earlier was used
as my WinXP backup.:-) So I reformatted the disk with APM (Apple
Partition Map to make it bootable on a PowerPC), made a new backup and
switched to that in 'startup', and it booted nicely and fast.:-) - So
Backuplist+ doesn't like the MBR formatting - not even with an erasing
with 'HFS+(Journalized)' filestructure.:-)
The new ver. 7.0 (code version 6.3) is nearly the same as the ver. 6.2
but optimized to work safely with SnowLeopard. I know from Rob that he
is going to re-write it in the near future. - If you had the ver. 6.2
you also would see that it contains Danish localization made by me, but
Rob thinks it won't be worth making the ver. 7.0 into Danish, cause he
is about to make it new right from the button. The problem with
localization is that one can't translate locked compiled nib files -
else the ver. 7.0 also would have contained Danish lproj too.:-)
Cheers, Erik Richard
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Warren Oates wrote:
> Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote:
>> I use SuperDuper! and Time Machine. I also want to create some simple folder
>> backups (Home folder and Applications folder). I tried ChronoSync, but found
>> it to be somewhat unwieldy.
>>
>> Reading about Backuplist+, it sounds like it can do everything anyone could
>> ever want in a backup app -- clone, incremental backups, etc. -- and do so
>> quickly and easily. Is it really all that good...and for free?
>
> Probably. It's a GUI frontend for rsync, which is open source free, and
> one of the best terminal backup apps for any flavour of Unix. Currently
> at version 3.0.7, I use it exclusively for exactly the sort of thing
> you're talking about -- home directories, usr/local, like that.
>
> http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
>
> But Backuplist+ may be easier to use.
Yes, it's built on the rsync engine, but according to Rob, it is an
optimized version not quite identical to the standard ver. 3.0.7. But as
already written - it just works real fine and rather fast too.
Nick Naym
warren...@gmail.com wrote on 12/24/09 9:44 AM:
Puzzling...I never heard about it till a few days ago, while I knew about
Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper!, and Time Machine soon after each hit the
streets. And ChronoSync I happened upon about a year ago.
It certainly seems odd that Backuplist+ didn't/doesn't pop up in the trade
pubs the way the other backup apps did/do, especially in light of the fact
that it supposedly provides the features and functions of all the others in
a single package...and (as I already said) for free.
Jolly Roger
Isn't it actually rsync that provides such features - Backuplist+ being
just a GUI on top of rsync?
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Nick Naym
at jolly...@pobox.com wrote on 12/25/09 12:06 AM:
Yes...but I never heard of rsync either.
Richard Maine
> In article jollyroger-394FD...@news.individual.net, Jolly Roger
> at jolly...@pobox.com wrote on 12/25/09 12:06 AM:
> > Isn't it actually rsync that provides such features - Backuplist+ being
> > just a GUI on top of rsync?
>
> Yes...but I never heard of rsync either.
Well, that's an old Unix thing. I've used it for decades. At the moment,
I happen to use it to "push" my music from the system where I
permamently store it to the living-room mini. Sort of the opposite of a
backup. The mini never gets backed up because it never has the primary
copies of anything. It just gets duplicates via rsync on occasion.
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Jolly Roger
rsync has been around since 1996, long before Mac OS X existed:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync>
Ed H.
<warren...@gmail.com> wrote:
Carbon Copy Cloner also uses rsync, maybe others.
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Warren Oates
"Ed H." <fa...@notreal.net> wrote:
> Carbon Copy Cloner also uses rsync, maybe others.
True, and Mr. Bombich provides some of the best support I've ever seen
for open source software. I use CCC to make bootable clones when I need
them, and yes, it's based on rsync (also on ditto(1) and asr(8)).
Paul Sture
I am currently testing Backuplist+ and it is certainly easier to use for
a beginner. It comes with its own distributions of rsync (several to
cater for OS and architecture). The PPC version is 3.0.2 (but still
later than the version I had on Leopard until I grabbed the latest).
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