I consider a few things to be absolutely essential if you are to use a computer. At the top of that list is to have viable backups of your data and your drives. In this blog I will walk step-by-step through using Carbon Copy Cloner, our tool of choice to create bootable clone backups.

Warrick is a free utility for reconstructing (or recovering) a website when a back-up is not available. Warrick will search the following web repositories for missing resources: Internet Archive, Google, Bing (formerly Live Search), and Yahoo. All of the resources are gathered together and provided to you as a single collection of files. Pl

rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. rsync is freely available under the GNU General Public License and is currently being maintained by Wayne Davison.

rsync is a file transfer program for Unix systems. rsync uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files are present at one of the ends of the link beforehand.

PsyncX is designed to let you effortlessly backup whichever folders or hard drives are important to you. To that end we work our hearts out to make sure that your expectations don't get disappointed.

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Hard drives, flash memory, optical drives, and more.

Info about more than 100 Mac backup apps and a Retrospect 6.x primer!

Better backups with Time Machine

Time Machine's limitations and how to overcome them

It’s really easy to identify folders for exclusion from Time Machine, which will save time and space during backups.

Learn how to set up Time Machine to perform backups, how to restore items (or your entire system) from a backup, how to use existing backups on a new Mac, and more.

Products Affected
Time Machine, Mac OS X 10.6, Mac OS X 10.5, Time Capsule

It's important to back up FileStorage files (.fs files), for the same reasons it's important to back up all critical files. The intended way to back up an .fs file is with the oddly named repozo.py script. This performs efficient incremental backups against a live FileStorage (there's no need to bring the app down), and is aware of that a FileStorage is in a temporarily non-sane state during the time a transaction is in the process of committing. Doing a raw file copy, or rsync, isn't aware of the latter problem, and should not be used on a live FileStorage file; a filesystem-level copy is fine if the FileStorage file isn't open for write access, but repozo still has an advantage then in knowing how to do incremental backup.

There are several ways to backup all data related to Plone.

Dropbox allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically.

Getting rid of files you don't need can do more than just reclaim wasted disk space