12-31-2006, 08:26 PM
I took a look at Prosoft's Data Backup, read the reviews, and glanced at the manual.
DB appears more user-friendly and intelligently explained than Retrospect Express, which is a boon. I'm tempted to spring for it myself, and forget about RE (haven't registered the OWC copy yet). As far as I can tell, it won't back up other users on a network, but neither will RE.
The big wildcard is Apple's Time Machine. Will an OS-based backup utility depress demand for DB and similar products, to the point where they vanish from the market?
From the Apple website, it looks like TM will do incremental backups, like Backup.app—not clear if it will have other options. If not, then there will still be a need for a more variegated utility like DB. Note: users doing incremental backups will have to weed frequently, or they'll quickly fill up your backup HD.
A while ago I asked about backup software, and several folks here recommended SuperDuper. It's a one-trick pony (cloning), but apparently does that very well. Is cloning enough backup for most people? Maybe—it certainly would be nice to have a bootable mirror of one's HD when it dies. Any more sophisticated backup generally reguires the orginal program to do a restore, right?
/Mr Lynn
DB appears more user-friendly and intelligently explained than Retrospect Express, which is a boon. I'm tempted to spring for it myself, and forget about RE (haven't registered the OWC copy yet). As far as I can tell, it won't back up other users on a network, but neither will RE.
The big wildcard is Apple's Time Machine. Will an OS-based backup utility depress demand for DB and similar products, to the point where they vanish from the market?
From the Apple website, it looks like TM will do incremental backups, like Backup.app—not clear if it will have other options. If not, then there will still be a need for a more variegated utility like DB. Note: users doing incremental backups will have to weed frequently, or they'll quickly fill up your backup HD.
A while ago I asked about backup software, and several folks here recommended SuperDuper. It's a one-trick pony (cloning), but apparently does that very well. Is cloning enough backup for most people? Maybe—it certainly would be nice to have a bootable mirror of one's HD when it dies. Any more sophisticated backup generally reguires the orginal program to do a restore, right?
/Mr Lynn