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By: Nathan Pitman

Nathan Pitman — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:30:35 +0000

Funny, I just got one of these little devices myself as a backup solution. I’m planning on doing a weekly backup to it and as suggested might start backing up closed jobs to DVD also and moving them off site.

By: Matthew Geddert

Matthew Geddert — Sat, 14 May 2005 05:09:29 +0000

For windows the easiest and cheapest way of doing this is with windows built in native backup software (start -> run -> ntbackup in windows 2000/XP) if you have windows XP its also somewhere in the accessories folder in the programs menu. It is especially nice that if your main computer dies any newer windows based computer can read your backup files. This software does incrementals so you could do a full backup weekly and incremental during the week or something like that.

I second the recommendation for rsync X on the Mac. Rsync has been a unix standard for a long time and it is also useful for keeping two backup hard drives in sync, one on-site and one off-site. You can rsync your iMac to the shared network drive as a regular backup, and then rsync the shared network drive (which contains the iMac’s files and your windows backupfile.bkf files) with your off-site backup drive, once every 2 weeks or so.

I can say this from experience, it is always cheaper to pay for and setup reliable backups than not to.

By: Mark Boulton

Mark Boulton — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:11:41 +0000

Dan – thanks for that. RsyncX looks really interesting and it nicely provides an easy to use interface over Unix (which i’m really not familiar with) – i’ll give it a go when I get the drive in a couple of weeks.

Kenn – I’ve had a look at the site and it looks like an interesting alternative – i’ll certainly bear it in mind.

By: Kenn

Kenn — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:15:34 +0000

I use a solution that takes RAID and offsite backup to a neat and an inexpensive conclusion, check out rebyte.com

By: Dan Phiffer

Dan Phiffer — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:09:48 +0000

RsyncX is a free OS X GUI that sits on top of the excellent Unix rsync utility. Be sure to try resizing the “Simple” windowto reveal additional backup sources, a feature that has no explicit affordance, making it easy to miss. This is helpful: http://www.labf.org/~egon/mac_backup/

As long as you have iTunes set up to not copy tracks to the iTunes music folder when you add them (in the advanced prefs), you should be able to reference remote files across a network. Just drag ‘n drop from the Finder.

Not sure about the printer thing. Maybe just give it a try?

One other thought on backups: off-site backups should be part of the equation. If you get burgled (or if there’s a fire), they’re going to get your backup drives too.