I have used and love Mike Bombich's
Carbon Copy Cloner. It has saved me from crashed PowerBook drives more
than once. CCC makes a bootable image and the image actually boots!
I backup to one of two alternating FireWire 800 drives often.
I can't say enough good about this
utility.
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
From: fed-talk-bounces+paul.derby=email@hidden
[mailto:fed-talk-bounces+paul.derby=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Pike, Michael (NNMC)
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005
4:26 PM
To: email@hidden
Subject: [Fed-Talk] Backup 3
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