12-11-2006, 04:42 AM
You might consider paying for superduper -- it is the best backup software for OS X, and there are tests to prove it if you google it (maybe check barefeats too?)
and you will want to set it up for an incremental backup so that every day it only backs up what you worked on, not the whole drive
the only issue i see is whether or not you can do incremenatl back ups of your system, i have no idea if that is possible
in my studio i have 3 macs going to an external FW 400 dual bay case with 2 400 gig drives in it. every night at 11 pm the 1st drive backs up to the second drive, which is usually about a gig worth of stuff. i use silverkeeper (free) and its never missed a day.
this is data only, since if any one machine really did die we could always reinstall from scratch, since we own all of our own programs, etc. might take a couple of hours at most, but thats about it
and you will want to set it up for an incremental backup so that every day it only backs up what you worked on, not the whole drive
the only issue i see is whether or not you can do incremenatl back ups of your system, i have no idea if that is possible
in my studio i have 3 macs going to an external FW 400 dual bay case with 2 400 gig drives in it. every night at 11 pm the 1st drive backs up to the second drive, which is usually about a gig worth of stuff. i use silverkeeper (free) and its never missed a day.
this is data only, since if any one machine really did die we could always reinstall from scratch, since we own all of our own programs, etc. might take a couple of hours at most, but thats about it