Backup (and FTP)

[Andrew Brown]

On 22 Oct 2006, at 22:01, Neil Laubenthal wrote:

> By default . . .SuperDuper does a smart update except for the first  
> time . . .and you can even make the first time be a smart update as  
> well (smart update = incremental backup . . .only copies files that  
> changed.

Yes, but it actually says "I am going to wipe your external drive".  
Maybe it won't, but that's what it says it will do, and I am not  
going to click on the button that says "Do it".

> I've never tried waking up the machine before running  
> PSyncX . . .but I use it to backup my file server's drives to other  
> internal and external drives attached to the file server in the  
> middle of the night. Dunno what happened . . .did you make sure  
> that the backups where checked to turn them on in PSyncX as well as  
> schedule them? You can run Cronnix and open the System Crontab to  
> make sure that they're properly scheduled as well.

I was one release behind the times, the latest PSyncX seems to work  
fine, apart from sometimes quitting when you alter the time of the  
back-up.

AB