I realize I am probably not doing the “best practice”
approach here, but because we have such a hard time getting software procured
for Apple, I use the DotMac Backup utility from my personal account to back up
our servers.
Recently, Apple release Backup 3…. It is not all that
much faster than 2.02, but does make things more “intuitive”.
However, a startling discovery was made, you cannot restore the backups with
Backup 3. It goes through the motions, but never actually restores the file.
As a hint for anyone else doing this (for personal or work),
you CAN recover going through a hodge-podge of steps.
1) Control
click the backup file or incremental backup file you want to restore from and
select “Show package contents”
2) Double click
the Contents Folder
3) Double click
the secondary contents folder
4) You will see
a backup.sparsimage file – it is just s DMG for all intents and purposes.
5) Double click
the sparseimage, it will mount as a volume.
6) Go through
the volume and drag the files out that you want (they are in the same hierarchal
order as the original) and drag them where you want.
I’m not real sure how Apple missed the inability to
recover backup files, but hopefully they will have it fixed soon.
In the mean time, does anyone know of a cost effective
backup tool that I could use? (Will have to buy myself, so price is an issue).
Would also like the ability to encrypt the backup data with Blowfish ( had to
throw that in J) Although I can encrypt with my
BlowFish app if I need to.
Mike