Re: [Fed-Talk] Backup 3
Re: [Fed-Talk] Backup 3
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Backup 3
- From: Rich Trouton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 16:38:42 -0400
Mike,
Do you care about incremental backups, or do you want a full backup
of your servers every night? If you want a clone, Carbon Copy Cloner
is still the king with its scheduled synchronization (though
scheduling is not currently working on 10.4; Mike Bombich is
supposedly fixing that in CCC 3). Otherwise, you may want to look at
syncupX (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26249). If
the opportunity ever arises though, get a more industrial strength
solution like NetVault or Retrospect.
Rich
On Oct 6, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Pike, Michael ((IHS)) wrote:
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
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