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BRU LE for Mac OS X

Posted by Cliff on from the backups-for-powerbooks dept.

GraWil wonders: "The Tolis Group has just released BRU LE for Mac OS X. It is far more reasonably priced than the professional version but it is still priced well above the personal edition for Linux and BSD users. Does anyone have experience they can share about strategies for backing up Powerbook and Desktop Mac I am using a total of 140GB of the 180GB available)?"

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  1. Re:Why would I use this over Dantz Retrospect? by yummyporkproducts · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because retrospect is a worthless piece of shit. We struggled with it for years, because it was the only backup option that supported tape on OS X. It had a problem with just not running on schedule, quitting mid-backup, and others. Retrospect doesn't even support the APPLE Xserve RAID, for pete's sake (or didn't until the latest version, 6, which is a paid upgrade for a product that never worked well in the first place). BRU works well - we've found that it backups and restores reliably, and we can script it from the command line.

  2. RSyncX for resource forks by JJSpreij · · Score: 5, Informative

    the default rsync included with OS X isn't aware of resource forks at all...

    RSyncX will copy resource forks, but only to another OS X system running RSyncX with a HFS(+) filesystem.

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  3. Carbon Copy Cloner by SimonDorfman.com · · Score: 5, Informative

    Carbon Copy Cloner works very well. I just did a backup of my powerbook to an external firewire drive using CCC before sending the powerbook in for repair. Now I'm booting from the firewire drive on my old iMac until I get my powerbook back. Seemless. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ 13260M

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  4. Re:Backup on Mac OS X by Graff · · Score: 5, Informative

    As I mentioned in an earlier post be very careful with some of the copying/archiving utilities that come with Mac OS X. Many of them are not intended to copy Mac files, these utilities often strip metadata and resource forks and end up ruining files.

    Instead you need to use alternate tools included with Mac OS X such as ditto, CpMac, and hdiutil. There are also 3rd party utilities such as the tar replacement hfstar (located at the bottom of the page), and the rsync replacement RsyncX.

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  5. use psync by noisia · · Score: 5, Informative

    psync is a great, easy to use tool for backing up OS x. It copies resource forks, and makes a fully bootable copy of the hard disk. Easy to script it into your /etc/daily file as well. I believe that ccc is a front end to psync as well.

    not a shill, just a happy camper.

    http://www.dan.co.jp/cases/macosx/psync.html

  6. Some other useful standard tools by rohanl · · Score: 5, Informative

    You might want to look at: /usr/bin/ditto copy files and directories to a destination directory /usr/sbin/asr Apple Software Restore
    Read the man pages for more info. Both these are standard in Mac OS X (Panther at least, not sure about older releases) and handle resource forks properly.

    asr is actually the command line backend that the Software Restore Disk that shipped with your computer uses.