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Create daily backups on an encrypted disk image
Authored by: roncross@cox.net on May 17, '04 12:23:02PM

Gee, I just use my .mac account and use the backup.app software that comes with it. I can save all of the important stuff that I need either to be saved to the idisk, cd, dvd, hard drive, external hard drive, etc...

No script for me in this case. Sure it is $99/year, but it is well worth the cost in my mind. What I like about the software is that my stuff is not backed up on the same computer that I use unless I specifically want to do that.

Besides that, I use the .mac account for so much more such as publishing my calendar, posting pictures and movies of events to my friends and family, and retrieving my emails from anywhere there is a computer connected to the web.

Not an issue for me. In this case, Apple got it right.
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RLC

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Create daily backups on an encrypted disk image
Authored by: rhowell on May 17, '04 12:29:43PM

The only thing I don't like about Backup is that it won't copy any of my .files (dot-files), which is a real bummer if you use a lot of unix apps. SilverKeeper and others do, however, but of course they don't have any integration with my .Mac account.



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Create daily backups on an encrypted disk image
Authored by: cclifton on May 17, '04 12:44:33PM

Gee, the original poster is backing up 5GB of data. .Mac will provide 1GB for $350 a year. Assuming they would even sell 5GB of storage, and that prices would scale linearly, that's $1750 a year.

I use .Mac for backing up some data; it's handy for what it is designed for. However, the original poster's script is a very useful contribution. Why do you feel the need to be a troll?

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Create daily backups on an encrypted disk image
Authored by: roncross@cox.net on May 18, '04 02:45:05AM

Again if you have GBytes of information, you do not have to backup to an iDisk and pay the high cost for storage. You can also use backup to save to an external disk, dvd, etc...

I am not recommending that people pay a thousand dollars to back up their critical information. The main thing about backing up is to preserve file permission, ownership, modification date.

From what I understand, backing up HFS files and older MAC files using a unix script may not preserve file permission, ownership, modification dates.

Maybe the author of the script can speak to this issue of file permission.

thx
RLC

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