Re: Insomniacal Mac

On 2024-06-12 21:33:16 +0000, Your Name said:

On 2024-06-12 11:11:36 +0000, super70s said:

On 2024-06-12 06:24:00 +0000, Your Name said:

On 2024-06-12 02:17:26 +0000, super70s said:

On 2024-06-11 20:40:44 +0000, Your Name said:

 In ye olde days of MacOS 9 and early MacOS X I used a great syncing app that was very fast,

 Was it ChronoSync by any chance? I still use that to back up my Tiger system.
 I always used Maxtor external HDs (since acquired by Seagate) with my old systems and they had this "One Touch" backup feature with provided software, but I never used that. But all you had to do was touch a button on the external to back everything up.

 It was either "ChronoSync" or more likely "Synchronize! Pro". I went through a few apps testing them until I found one I was happy with.

 Yeah I've heard of Synchronize Pro too. It must have been more expensive than ChronoSync so I went with that.
 

I probably need to do that again so I can ditch the slow CarbonCopyCloner (only use that when doing an initial full bootable backup). I did try "SyncFolders Pro", various versions, but it is utterly useless and never finds any new / altered files to copy.

 CC Cloner has saved my bacon more than a few times with bootable systems for new machines. They began introducing more "regularly scheduled backup" features as time went on but I never used them.

 If CCC comparison routine actually worked properly (rather than trawling through the entire drive every time), then scheduling a backup when shutting my Mac down could be handy, but it takes an hour to find and copy the few changed / altered files on the main drive (the external drive is a lot quicker, despite being the smae capacity and being fuller).

Yeah they should realize people don't want to be inconvenienced like that do things a lot faster like the old ChronoSync and Synchronize Pro programs. I've never had any problem with ChronoSync messing up when I back up my Tiger system. It's really fast but I don't use it to back the whole hard drive up, just selected folders that are important to me. You turn each folder into its own ChronoSync file and then all you do is click the file and confirm you want it backed up to the target.