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#Disktracker alternative pro#
#Disktracker alternative software#

(If a Powerbook were my primary machine, I would use an external Firewire drive in the role that G5’s second internal drive serves in this architecture.)Īrchiving. If my startup drive ever dies, I can immediately boot from the secondary drive, and at maximum have lost one day’s work. I use SyncPro to, automatically each night, mirror my startup drive to my secondary drive. My G5 desktop has a second internal drive, of equal capacity to the primary startup drive. Probably one of the oldest utilities on the MacOS platform. FileBuddy is a general purpose searching and file management utility. As to be expected from a MIT computer science grad, DropDMG is (like all Michael's products) of top quality. DropDMG, as its name implies, is a utility for creating DMG (and now, other types of) archives.

#Disktracker alternative pro#

Synchronize Pro is a general purpose, industrial strength, backup and synchronization utility, capable of maintaining a bootable mirror, and archiving modified or deleted files. Tools.įollowing are the tools used in my backup system: I settled on a system that meets these criteria, and have been happy with it for the past three or four years.

Retrieval of files should be fast and reliable.

Operation of the backup system should involve my intervention as little as possible.

I should be able to immediately get back to work in case of primary disk failure.

I finally gave up on Retrospect, and decided to search for a new backup system/strategy.

Recovering needed files was cumbersome, and sometimes impossible due to some subtle misconfiguration of my daily, weekly, monthly full- and incremental set of backup scripts.

An inordinant amount of money and time spent purchasing, swapping and rotating media (tapes, DVDs, etc.).

#Disktracker alternative software#

Buggy software versions, that never quite seemed to keep up with the latest release of MacOS X.My years of using Dantz’s Retrospect backup software were characterized by: I decided to write this up as a blog article, for later reference. (I expect his productivity to quadruple :-) This is the same setup I have at home, and so Mike ask me to put together some notes regarding my backup strategy. Our company recently updated my colleague’s aging Powerbook to a brand spanking new dual-G5 desktop with a 20” Apple Cinema Display.