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  1. Retrospect from EMC Insignia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Small-Office Windows Based Backup Software?

    Retrospect. 'nuff said.

    http://www.emcinsignia.com/

  2. Options to check out... by CFrankBernard · · Score: 2, Informative · on Small-Office Windows Based Backup Software?

    NovaBACKUP (PC World Best Buy; offers tape encryption)
    http://www.novastor.com/

    Cleversafe (GPL'd)
    http://www.cleversafe.org/

    Genie Backup Manager
    http://www.genie-soft.com/products/gbm/default.htm l?AfID=13778

    SyncBack (freeware)
    http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html

    EMC Insignia Retrospect (formerly Dantz Retrospect; PC Magazine Editor's Choice)
    http://www.emcinsignia.com/products/

  3. Retrospect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Small-Office Windows Based Backup Software?

    I've used BackupExec for everything at several different jobs, and it is nice, but probably overkill (and super expensive) for what you are doing.

    If you don't have any real servers and you are just backing up files, you might want to check out Retrospect (now part of EMC, I think). I used this quite a bit way back when it was primarily a Mac product, but I've also used it in a Windows environment and it was far easier to use than most other backup products. From looking at EMC's site, they seem to offer quite a few different versions, but I think there is still a fairly cheap "Pro" version if you just want to backup files from a couple of desktops.

    Of course, a lot of this will depend upon what OS your machines are running, and if you need to back up any specialized server apps (db, mail, etc).

    here's a link to the main site

  4. Oh no, not again... by gidds · · Score: 4, Informative · on Backup Solutions for Mac OS X?
    This seems to have been discussed in many places over the last couple of months.

    I'm no expert, but I can point you to a couple of interesting web pages by people who do seem to know a lot of the details:

    In short, there are lots of different backup and cloning tools, from the Unix cp, ditto, and rsync commands up to the free Carbon Copy Cloner, cheap SuperDuper!, and expensive Retrospect. And very few of them preserve everything. HFS+ carries a lot of baggage from the old Mac OS, and adds a lot more stuff from Unix: there are resource forks, HFS+ extended attributes, BSD flags such as creation date and owner/group permissions, ACLs, symbolic links, aliases, and lots more -- and almost none of the options can preserve all of those.

    You also need to think about what your backups are for and how much time and money you're prepared to expend: for some, burning a few personal files to CDR every few months will suffice, whereas for others an external HD holding a complete clone is the thing, and power users may need daily or weekly incremental backups with the ability to retrieve any file going back years.

    Personally speaking, I'm in the middle category, with a large external Firewire HD holding a clone of each of my drives, which I redo every month or so. (Having it bootable is also a good idea, and has saved my bacon at least once!) I've mostly been using Carbon Copy Cloner, which has given good results, but I've recently switched to SuperDuper! which is cheap and seems to preserve absolutely everything. But don't take my word for it: read the linked pages, work out your needs, and make up your own mind.

    But DO think about it! Disaster WILL strike in some form or other; disks DO fail (as I know to my cost), and you need to plan for it. It's not a question of how much time or money you can afford to spend; it's a question of how much data you can afford to lose!

  5. Retrospect by MrGHemp · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Backup Solutions for Mac OS X?

    http://www.emcinsignia.com/

    We use it to back up our web and database servers. The high end products might be over kill but the Express version might do you right. Retrospect will compress the data to save drive space, and it allows you to restore via a date of your choice. Lots of scheduling and etc options. Works like a champ.

  6. Re:Seperation is needed by MachineShedFred · · Score: 1 · on Apple Unveils 24" iMac

    Yeah, because there are no backup solutions available for the Mac...

    Take your FUD elsewhere.

  7. Re:Time Machine == ZFS ? by iluvcapra · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Mac Pro, Mac OS X Virtual Desktops Announced at WWDC

    I suspect they may still be gnawing on ZFS for a future version, but for now it would appear the "Time Machine" is built on top of HFS+, since there is no talk of reformatting your drives to take advantage of the new feature.

    As well, the keynote mentioned that Time Machine could also be used to back up a file system to another hard drive, which is not exactly what ZFS is or does, and will be interesting to see how they implement it-- I've been looking for a Retrospect replacement for quite a while, and if Time Machine can do the backups to /dev/sa0, then I'm done.