Best MAC backup SW ?

[skippybangkok]

Have a huge mis trust for Apple Time Machine, seems to be real buggy.

 

What SW would you recommend to do a full disk image, and then also maybe a back up with incremental adds

 

Thanks

[Lammbock]

Time Machine. Learn how to use it.

It works great for me.

[JusMe]

I hated Time Machine - keeps making new copies of your drive until wherever you're saving it is completely blogged and full; also found it buggy and awkward to use.

 

I much prefer Carbon Copy Cloner.  Mine runs every morning at 2:00 a.m. and makes a perfect copy of my main drive onto an external drive partitioned for different uses.  I have been able to go into that perfect backup and get a file I'd changed on my main drive.

 

Either purchase it, or find it as a kracked version on special sites.

[CaptHaddock]

Version history of files, which is what Time Machine implements, is not important for most people who aren't going to want to revert a spreadsheet to an earlier version.  It's more important to have a full, bootable disk image so that when the hard drive fails, you can do a one-button restore, without having to rebuild the system..  The best program for this purpose on Mac is SuperDuper. 

[SoloFlyer]

I've had Time Maching fluck up on me recently.  Weeks waisted with apple care trying to restore it.  Now I cant even make a fresh back-up to a separate HD - sparse file errors.

 

In the middle of doing a manual back-up.  (Copy/Moving files over).  What's a better way ? That will also mirror changes when if I want to run that option?

 

Used to use CCC back in my windowz days, but time macine was supposed to be so good I never kept up with alternatives for mac ...

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1 hour ago, SoloFlyer said:

In the middle of doing a manual back-up.  (Copy/Moving files over).  What's a better way ? That will also mirror changes when if I want to run that option?

I'm using TimeMachine for the whole disk image, but it has it's issues. Sometimes the backup is corrupted and I'll have to start over again.

 

For the most important files I use rsync to copy my files to the NFS mounted NAS directory. 

 

rsync -arv /path/from /path/to

 

This can be put to the crontab to automate the process. (The test file checks if the NAS is mounted)
 

0 */4 * * * test -f /path/to/.data-mount-ok && rsync -ar /path/from /path/to

 

[Nowisee]

I've been using TM for years.
Currently use a 1TB external partitioned.  The important files/photos/songs I keep on one section. 

In Time Machine preferences>Options I only use system folders for timed back ups, which I only do about every 1-3 months or unless theres a major update or other important event.  If that partition gets full, then I start deleting older back ups.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, not sure and luckily I have never had a HD failure on either the Mac or the external drive.
My current MBP is using SSD and my next External will probably also.  
 

[JusMe]

Using Carbon Copy Cloner, my full HD is copied as a full backup to an external drive.  I can boot from it, which upon rare occasions I do in order to use Disk Warrior on my main Mac HD.

 

Everything is exact on the copy.  I even use it to make a clone of my HD from the Mac to my MBPro, which is then a perfect replication of my desktop, files and system included.  Just startup the MB using that external as a boot drive and then using CCC copy direct from that external to the MB.  Done it the reverse way from the MB through the external to the Mac HD when I've travelled and put stuff on the laptop that I simply make a pure copy of onto the drive and then the Mac HD.

[skippybangkok]

Thx


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