[Hardcider] Backups

[Benjamin Reed]

On 4/20/06, Ken Mink <ken.mink at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Powerbook that just lost it's hard drive. Luckily I had recently
> done a backup of my home directory to external firewire drive. However, the
> backup was just by chance. I am looking for an automated solution. The PB is
> my only OSX machine. I have plenty of space for a backup on my Linux server.
> I've been reading about OSX backups and the rub seems to be preserving the
> resource forks. Does anyone have any ideas on a network based full backup
> solution for OSX? Backing up to a .MAC account would break the NDA for some
> of the code I work on, so that is not an option. Any help will be greatly
> appreciated.

well, I'm using Backup.app that comes with .mac, although I'm not
backing up *to* .mac, I'm backing up to an external drive instead.

I would assume that you could do something similar and backup to a
network-attached drive, assuming you have the software to do so.

Backup does a pretty good job of scheduling and such.

While I'm sure there are other solutions, there are none I'm directly
familiar with, other than a cron job that does rsync (don't forget the
-E to get resource forks).