12-31-2006, 04:15 PM
Scary stories here... I just started using Retrospect Express that came with my OWC DVD drive, to back up to an external FW drive, and now I have second thoughts about the whole thing...
First backup took about one hour, second (incremental) backup took only a few minutes, and restoring a few files (just as a test) seemed to work OK.
I choose to backup only the user folders (I don't need all the Apps and Libraries), but even in the user folders there is a lot of junk (another Lib folder with thousands little files). I wish Retrospect would let me choose which folders to backup, i.e. docs and pictures, not the entire home folder, but I couldn't figure out how to do that.
First backup took about one hour, second (incremental) backup took only a few minutes, and restoring a few files (just as a test) seemed to work OK.
I choose to backup only the user folders (I don't need all the Apps and Libraries), but even in the user folders there is a lot of junk (another Lib folder with thousands little files). I wish Retrospect would let me choose which folders to backup, i.e. docs and pictures, not the entire home folder, but I couldn't figure out how to do that.