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The reason I use Retrospect is because I back up to tape. To my knowledge, there is no other simple way to back up to tape from Mac OS X. Tapes are never mounted, so using rsync to back up would be pointless.
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interesting....
I dropped Retrospect like a rock when I learned that it only supported internet archives via ftp. After 12 emails I finally contacted them by using up my free tech support call. When I asked them how I could back up my files to the internet securely, they said that it wasn't possible with Retrospect, nor was it a priority in the future. Afterall, what good is a backup hard drive if your house burns down or you house is ropped (as mine was last month--the robbing, that is, not the burning down)? So I dug into the command line. I have an rsync incremental backup which I run every night via cron (thanks to rsyncX and Macosxlabs it's even HFS+ and resource fork compatible!). I also run an archive script which copies the most vital files to a new folder, makes a compressed diskimage out of them (thus preserving the resource forks) and then copies them to my brother's bsd server via SCP. Yep, and it only took about 10 months to figure out all the unix crap (ssh-keygen, ssh-agent, crontab, scp, hdiutil, etc...) to get the scripts working (hehe). So I guess what I'm really trying to say is that Retrospect is fine if you just want to back up your stuff to a tape or external hard drive. But for a more comprehensive backup plan to safeguard against catastrophic loss of data (fire, theft, etc...) you should back up to a remote site. Retrospect fails in this category.
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I was digging through looking for using a remote tape drive with tar, and I found your comment. It's old, but I thought I'd put the trick up.
It's an Apple problem
I spent a long time trying to figure out how to get tar to recognize my tape drive as well. It turns out to be a deficiency in OS X, which (still) has no support for
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