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Thank goodness.. a free backup app for Mac!
Well, lets face it, there's been pretty much nothing in terms of decent backup solutions for Mac without having to dig in your pockets. Even Apple (at the time this is written) only offer the "Backup" application if you sign up to their .mac account.
Now we love Apple, and the Mac, but we feel that in today's climate of mass media and reducing paper systems, a backup application should be almost standard with every OS. It's true, Apple's OS X does have some very good file manipulation software 'under the hood', but still, its very
Well, lets face it, there's been pretty much nothing in terms of decent backup solutions for Mac without having to dig in your pockets. Even Apple (at the time this is written) only offer the "Backup" application if you sign up to their .mac account.
Now we love Apple, and the Mac, but we feel that in today's climate of mass media and reducing paper systems, a backup application should be almost standard with every OS. It's true, Apple's OS X does have some very good file manipulation software 'under the hood', but still, its very
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PPC, Mac OS X 10.1 or later.
PPC, Mac OS X 10.1 or later.
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Thank goodness.. a free backup app for Mac!
Well, lets face it, there's been pretty much nothing in terms of decent backup solutions for Mac without having to dig in your pockets. Even Apple (at the time this is written) only offer the "Backup" application if you sign up to their .mac account.
Now we love Apple, and the Mac, but we feel that in today's climate of mass media and reducing paper systems, a backup application should be almost standard with every OS. It's true, Apple's OS X does have some very good file manipulation software 'under the hood', but still, its very difficult to access for non-UNIX savy users.
So that is why we've decided to put a significant amount of work now and the future into "Phew", a decent backup app for Mac thats FREE. We hope you find this useful, and if you would like to contribute some small donation to our current and future efforts we'd very much appreciate it. Any bugs/feature requests, please email us.
NOTE: Phew currently doesn't backup the resource portion of files. In short you may find incomplete files on your backups (text clippings for example). This probably won't effect 99% of most peoples data but please check critical files after a backup to make sure. We are working to address this issue.
Well, lets face it, there's been pretty much nothing in terms of decent backup solutions for Mac without having to dig in your pockets. Even Apple (at the time this is written) only offer the "Backup" application if you sign up to their .mac account.
Now we love Apple, and the Mac, but we feel that in today's climate of mass media and reducing paper systems, a backup application should be almost standard with every OS. It's true, Apple's OS X does have some very good file manipulation software 'under the hood', but still, its very difficult to access for non-UNIX savy users.
So that is why we've decided to put a significant amount of work now and the future into "Phew", a decent backup app for Mac thats FREE. We hope you find this useful, and if you would like to contribute some small donation to our current and future efforts we'd very much appreciate it. Any bugs/feature requests, please email us.
NOTE: Phew currently doesn't backup the resource portion of files. In short you may find incomplete files on your backups (text clippings for example). This probably won't effect 99% of most peoples data but please check critical files after a backup to make sure. We are working to address this issue.
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Simple, does what its supposed to do pretty quickly. Bit of a CPU-hog but hey, it only takes a couple minutes to do a backup (usually).
Let me know if anyone sees them resurface as anything else.
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But image files backed up to my SD cards with Phew don't have the extra components, so I get full capacity and clean slide shows. Yaaaaay!!!
(This might be a problem for backups where that 'metadata' is important. )
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Jeff H. reviewed on 29 Jan 2006
Does everything it says very simply...and it works every time, QUICKLY!!!
Had me DejaVu nightmares for the last time!
Thank you so much!!!
Anonymous reviewed on 22 Mar 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 02 Mar 2005
1. Backup other users stuff --> run as administrator.
2. Backup single files instead of only folders.
3. Exclude certain subfolders from folders to backup.
Anonymous reviewed on 02 Mar 2005
Now give me a standard UNIX tape drive API so I can use standard UNIX tape software for my Mac and I'll be happy.
Anonymous reviewed on 02 Mar 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 02 Mar 2005
Sorry, 'bout that.
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Anonymous reviewed on 02 Mar 2005