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Synch folders? - Version: 1.1.0(27), 8/26/2008 02:15PM PST
rrhawks
Can QRecall synch folders (synch, not backup)? Don't see any mention of this on their web site. Is it primarily a backup, rather than synching, application?
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- Synch folders?
switched from Time Machine, Retrospect, and Synchronize! Pro 
- Version: 1.0.1, 5/3/2008 11:15AM PST
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bljacob
My home set-up seems simple enough: three laptops and an airport network, but for whatever reason no software has liked it very much. So for several years I just used Dantz and then Synch! Pro to back up the important laptop [ mine :) ] to local removable storage.
When Leopard and Time Machine were announced, I went out and got a 1TB wireless NAS disk, set it up in my basement, and figured my problems were solved. Yeah, brilliant: Apple got rid of 3rd party NAS support in Time Machine, so I've been using back-door tricks to make that kinda work. For the past week, even that has been failing (repeatable system panic requiring reboot on my laptop, though my wife's laptop is still chugging along fine). Also, I've never been thrilled that Time Machine won't let me configure it to backup just once per day, so I looked into alternatives.
This morning I tried the latest version of Synchronize! Pro -- it failed to talk to my NAS, just like Time Machine -- although, unlike Time Machine, it didn't cause a panic, just an error message. Thumbs up on that front. So I started looking for alternatives and ran across QRecall. It is currently running in demo mode, but I'll almost certainly buy a license -- it is backing up my 30GB user space as I type this, which is remarkable for two reasons:
1. Both Time Machine and Synchronize! Pro balked at the NAS, as mentioned. (though Finder mounts it just fine ... go figure) QRecall has had no problems yet. More importantly ...
2. When Time Machine backed up any more than a few MB of data at a time, it made my laptop completely unusable. For instance, when initialized, it did a full backup of my entire machine (~75GB), and though the backup succeeded, it took *three full days* (over 65 hours) during which I could not use the machine for anything else. Same thing for my wife's machine and my kids' machine. This is one of the reasons I wanted to configure it to run at 3am instead of every 15 minutes. In contrast, QRecall has been going for 4 hours, 6 minutes, has transferred 9.2 GB, and I've been using the laptop to surf the web (write this post), read email, edit a Pages doc, and even run a CAD program to design circuit boards (Eagle, via X11). Dude! That's more than twice the bandwidth of TIme Machine *and* it doesn't drag down the rest of the machine.
I'm sold. (and, no, I've got no connections to any of the various software companies implicated)
When Leopard and Time Machine were announced, I went out and got a 1TB wireless NAS disk, set it up in my basement, and figured my problems were solved. Yeah, brilliant: Apple got rid of 3rd party NAS support in Time Machine, so I've been using back-door tricks to make that kinda work. For the past week, even that has been failing (repeatable system panic requiring reboot on my laptop, though my wife's laptop is still chugging along fine). Also, I've never been thrilled that Time Machine won't let me configure it to backup just once per day, so I looked into alternatives.
This morning I tried the latest version of Synchronize! Pro -- it failed to talk to my NAS, just like Time Machine -- although, unlike Time Machine, it didn't cause a panic, just an error message. Thumbs up on that front. So I started looking for alternatives and ran across QRecall. It is currently running in demo mode, but I'll almost certainly buy a license -- it is backing up my 30GB user space as I type this, which is remarkable for two reasons:
1. Both Time Machine and Synchronize! Pro balked at the NAS, as mentioned. (though Finder mounts it just fine ... go figure) QRecall has had no problems yet. More importantly ...
2. When Time Machine backed up any more than a few MB of data at a time, it made my laptop completely unusable. For instance, when initialized, it did a full backup of my entire machine (~75GB), and though the backup succeeded, it took *three full days* (over 65 hours) during which I could not use the machine for anything else. Same thing for my wife's machine and my kids' machine. This is one of the reasons I wanted to configure it to run at 3am instead of every 15 minutes. In contrast, QRecall has been going for 4 hours, 6 minutes, has transferred 9.2 GB, and I've been using the laptop to surf the web (write this post), read email, edit a Pages doc, and even run a CAD program to design circuit boards (Eagle, via X11). Dude! That's more than twice the bandwidth of TIme Machine *and* it doesn't drag down the rest of the machine.
I'm sold. (and, no, I've got no connections to any of the various software companies implicated)
Amazing... - Version: 1.0.1, 3/21/2008 06:32AM PST
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Domino_k
This backup utility is a gem. It works perfectly without ever failing. It can do all what the other backup softwares can do but in a smarter way. It is simple to configure, yet extremely powerful and configurable.
I use it to keep an history hour by hour of some files, I use instead of Time Machine as it can do exactly what Time Machine does but more intelligently. I use it to backup my medias, virtual machines, etc...
You ought to give it a try, really. There is nothing out there that comes close to it for backups.
I use it to keep an history hour by hour of some files, I use instead of Time Machine as it can do exactly what Time Machine does but more intelligently. I use it to backup my medias, virtual machines, etc...
You ought to give it a try, really. There is nothing out there that comes close to it for backups.
