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Backup Software & Conversion Software - OSX

  • 06-01-2010 2:26pm
    #1
    iMax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭


    Guys,

    Hoping you can help me out here. I'm new to all this Mac stuff (& loving it), but there's a couple of things missing from what I would have had on a PC & I don't know where to get them. I'm looking for preferably free software here.

    First off is some backup software. I have a server in the attic which I used to backup all my documents/photos/music/movies/important stuff to. It's a HP media server & it sits there running away happily. I used to have a piece of software on the PC that would do a backup to it, by checking my desktop folders that I had configured to, checking the corresponding ones on the server & just updating what had changed. The backups are uncompressed & the drives are mapped to the PC/Mac. I can't find anything like this for the mac.

    Secondly, I used to have something for ripping my DVDs to AVI (for media streaming) and then converting it to iphone compatible (two separate files). Again, I can't find anything to do this. I tried handbrake but (it's probably me) I can't get it to do this.

    Any recommendations ?


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  • #2
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    TimeMachine is built into the mac, you can create a volume on your backup server and there is a terminal command that you can run to fool the mac into thinking that is's backing up to an actual time machine server. I have this setup working perfectly at home with a few macs backing up to an NAS server. I mount the volume at login so that the time machine can find it. There is also a third party app where you can change the default time machine backup schedule to your own liking, but I can't remember the name now.

    Not sure if handbrake can rip dvds but mac the ripper can. I then use handbrake for converting the rips using the built in presets, just a few clicks and the quality is decent.


  • #3
    iMax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭iMax


    Thans Jester. I have time machine working on a local drive, but the server has everything from my PC days (gasp - 12 years) & I really don't want to take a chance on it being corrupted. Was really looking for something that can run in conjunction with time machine.


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