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1. SMARTREPORTER MAC OS X 10.4 ARCHIVE
2. SMARTREPORTER MAC OS X 10.4 PRO
3. SMARTREPORTER MAC OS X 10.4 SOFTWARE

You will also note that SyncPro preserves the folder structure (path) of archived files. (This allows multiple archived copies of the same file).

SMARTREPORTER MAC OS X 10.4 ARCHIVE

Before over-writing the older version, SyncPro will archive a copy of that older version to my external Firewire drive that I’ve specified as my target destination for archives.Īs you can see in this image, the “Current Group” folder contains a timestamped folder of archived files for each time SyncPro is run. At night, when my SyncPro mirror script runs, it will detect that this file needs copying to the mirror drive, overwriting the older version of this file. Say I’m working on a file that I created several days ago called “proposal.doc,” which has changed during the day. Connected to my G5, I have a 160 GB external Firewire drive, to which SyncPro archives modified and deleted files, when mirroring my primary drive to my secondary drive.

(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.

SMARTREPORTER MAC OS X 10.4 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.

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.).

SMARTREPORTER MAC OS X 10.4 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.