Nov 02, '05 04:56:00AM • Contributed by: kainewynd2
When I was almost done with that, I thought, "wouldn't it be cool to tie it into a server to allow network backups?" So I did, though I had to hardcode the username and password. When I was just about finished with that part, I thought, "incremental backups would be a much nicer feature." So I included that as well ... and threw it on both the local and network sides as well.
This happened for a couple days until it got down to 153 lines of code and a completed app that allows for an incremental network and local backup. This does all of these near seemlessly, though there are a few problems I wasn't able to tackle, like getting automated KERBEROS login and Home folders set up on the server.
You can download the project files (124KB), which includes the AppleScript source code, or download the finished application (127KB). Note that network support is nerfed unless it's configured in the project files.
[robg adds: I haven't tested the Entourage or network aspects of this one, but I did use the application to do a local Mail backup, and it seems to have worked just fine. The backups went into a new top-level directory named MailBackup. To change this, you'd have to download the source files, modify the AppleScript code, and then recompile the finished app using Xcode.]
