Remote backup

[Neil Laubenthal]

Quoting Andrew Brown <andrew.brown at c18.net>:

> I'm going for SuperDuper, but am concerned at the damage it could do if
> someone instructs it to carry out the sort of backup that kicks off by
> erasing everything on the destination drive. Is there a way of
> disabling this option in SD, or of making part(s) of an external drive
> read only?


I dont' think you can disable the option . . . but the best way to go  
about this is probably to save a settings document in SuperDuper.  
Double check that the settings are correct before you save the file .  
. . I think you can also set it to auto-run on launch . . .then  
instead of launching SD double click the settings file instead. That  
way it opens with the right stuff already selected. You may need to  
hit Run or Start or whatever it is though.

SD saves to a .dmg file if you're duplicating to a network drive . . .  
so you'll end up with 2 .dmg files on the Airport drive.

SD also has scheduling options . . . and I know that those run  
automatically at the scheduled time. If it won't run automatically by  
double clicking and you want to otherwise control how/when the backup  
runs . . . check their forums and there is some discussion about how  
to do this. Essentially you schedule a job and then unschedule it . .  
. then go into the /Library/Application Support/SuperDuper folder and  
find the scheduled job kickoff file . . . make an alias of that and  
then launch the alias.

Finally . . . don't forget DoSomethingWhen . . . a convenient little  
utility that does something whenever some other something happens.  
Highly useful for doing stuff like kicking off a script when an  
external drive is plugged in or when a network drive is mounted . . .  
it's got plenty of options.