Remote backup

[steve harley]

they whom i call Andrew Brown wrote:
> I'm looking for good remote backup software... I'm on Tiger.

have you try the various rsync approaches? RsyncX, for example, 
has features to build shell scripts for incremental backups (i 
was skeptical of this at first, as a search of this list's 
archives will show)

<http://archive.macosxlabs.org/rsyncx/rsyncx.html>

and rsync-backup is a config-file based shell-only tool i used 
for a while to regularly sync (not backup) three machines at work

<http://code.google.com/p/rsync-backup/>

at home, though, i mostly use Apple Backup, courtesy of .mac, to 
do a minimal backup to my iDisk plus a user-folder backup to my 
home server, plus the beta of Mac Mozy (which has not been 
trouble free) for a remote backup; i also use Carbon Copy Cloner 
to make occasionally bootable clones and on one machine have used 
CCC3's scheduling tool to do incrementals to a local disk (which 
has worked okay, but is difficult to monitor and sometimes pops 
up a "volume not found" message); i am running 10.4.10 by the way

overall, without any one best backup choice, my strategy is to 
use multiple tools, backing up the most critical files the most 
redundantly