Mac backup program

GhostInTheRuins

I'm looking for a program that might not even exist for mac, but I know that a similar program existed for windows a few years back but I can't remember what it was called.

What I'm looking for is a program that will compare my current photographs folders to my backup folder, and only replace and copy files that have changed or are new since the last backup onto the backup drive. I hope that makes sense.

Does anybody know of any programs that do anything like this?

I keep going back over old pictures to process them, but then when it comes time to back-up my pics I can't remember all the ones that I've changed or deleted so I end up having to back up everything. Needless to say it's not ideal when you have 500gbs of data to copy!

5uspect

rsync is a POSIX command that'll do that. Set up a cron job to automate it.

mathepac

I believe what you are looking for is a system of incremental backup for your pictures.

SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner for full (bootable if there's a System folder on the drive) backups. SuperDuper! can work alongside Time Machine (invest in a Time Capsule)

arRSync http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20983/arrsync if you want to get down an dirty with UNIX under the hood at the command line (very flexible)

DropBox does full and incremental backups to an online repository (expensive for half a terabyte)

BackUp and iBackup are other options.

Kbeg3

I use SilverKeeper for this. Has a range of backup options to choose from.

mrboswell

There was something called vice versa which is great on pc but I couldn't find it for the mac.

Seems very difficult to get an uncomplicated solution but carbon copy looks good.

GhostInTheRuins

Thank you very much lads, I'll have a look at all of them and see!

Heebie

On a Mac, the built-in "Time Machine" application does essentially the same thing as using "rsnapshot" which uses "rsync" to take incremental backups. (rsnapshot and "Time Machine" both take incremental backups that are "points in time" where you can recover any file at any point it existed, provided that the particular iteration has been backed up.)

It's really a very good methodology.. as long as you don't go removing photos from your system at all. if you remove stuff.. it's not the right solution.

GhostInTheRuins

I found a program called ChronoSync that does exactly what I'm looking for. I'm trying the demo at the minute and it's dead easy to use as well, just select the original folder and the backup one you need to scan for changes, click sync and it just wait for it to finish. It only copies files and folders that are new or have been edited, lovely!

Quickest backup ever, only took about 20 minutes!

mathepac

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

I found a program called ChronoSync ...

That's the bleedin' one I forgot!

Excellent, glad you found something that's useful to you. That program uses the UNIX RSync utility under the hood, so it's well tried & tested

mloc

The windows one was a Microsoft util called SyncToy. Very handy.