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Developer
Mojave Shade Software
Lifeboat is a reliable, easy-to-use backup utility. Pick where, what, and when and Lifeboat will handle all the dirty work of backing up your files. With incremental backups and compression, your backups will take up as little time and space as possible.
Backups can be saved locally on your computer, a CD or DVD, an external hard drive, or sent over a network to a .Mac account, a shared folder on another Mac, or a shared folder on a windows computer. Wherever you choose to backup, Lifeboat will copy your files, compress them, and write out a digest of what it did for restoring
Backups can be saved locally on your computer, a CD or DVD, an external hard drive, or sent over a network to a .Mac account, a shared folder on another Mac, or a shared folder on a windows computer. Wherever you choose to backup, Lifeboat will copy your files, compress them, and write out a digest of what it did for restoring
What's New
Version 1.3.2:
- [chg] Updated some of the help files.
- [chg] Dates and times now consider system preferences when displayed.
- [fix] Fixed a bug where resizing the restore sheet would not resize the browser in it.
- [fix] Fixed a bug where attempting to backup certain system files would cause the helper to crash.
- [new] Added "Advanced" tab in edit task window with before- and after-backup/restore script actions.
- [new] Added credits to about window.
- [new] Added Apple Share backup destination.
- [new] Lifeboat will now preserve full attributes if authorized by an administrator's account. It can cache these credentials for future, non-prompted use.
- [chg] Improved alias and symlink handling for CD/DVD option.
- [chg] Improved speed of checking for changed files.
- [fix] Fixed a bug in the scheduler where turning a task off might not be picked up immediately.
- [fix] Fixed a bug with demo codes where they would not properly expire.
- [fix] Fixed a bug with update handling where certain file systems would sometimes report the modification date as being slightly different than the true value.
- [fix] Fixed a performance problem with network-based backups.
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Version 1.3.2:
- [chg] Updated some of the help files.
- [chg] Dates and times now consider system preferences when displayed.
- [fix] Fixed a bug where resizing the restore sheet would not resize the browser in it.
- [fix] Fixed a bug where attempting to backup certain system files would cause the helper to crash.
- [new] Added more...
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Lifeboat is a reliable, easy-to-use backup utility. Pick where, what, and when and Lifeboat will handle all the dirty work of backing up your files. With incremental backups and compression, your backups will take up as little time and space as possible.
Backups can be saved locally on your computer, a CD or DVD, an external hard drive, or sent over a network to a .Mac account, a shared folder on another Mac, or a shared folder on a windows computer. Wherever you choose to backup, Lifeboat will copy your files, compress them, and write out a digest of what it did for restoring later.
Lifeboat is designed to make restoration as possible as it can. Restore directly from a backup task, from any backup digest, or if all else fails, restore from the backup manually. Lifeboat creates a human-readable digest at each backup location that you can use to locate each file and place it in its original location.
Files can be chosen in two ways: pick them directly or use a smart group to grab a set of files. Smart groups can be created just like a smart folder in finder and will automatically update as you add files to that set of files.
Backups can be saved locally on your computer, a CD or DVD, an external hard drive, or sent over a network to a .Mac account, a shared folder on another Mac, or a shared folder on a windows computer. Wherever you choose to backup, Lifeboat will copy your files, compress them, and write out a digest of what it did for restoring later.
Lifeboat is designed to make restoration as possible as it can. Restore directly from a backup task, from any backup digest, or if all else fails, restore from the backup manually. Lifeboat creates a human-readable digest at each backup location that you can use to locate each file and place it in its original location.
Files can be chosen in two ways: pick them directly or use a smart group to grab a set of files. Smart groups can be created just like a smart folder in finder and will automatically update as you add files to that set of files.
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DrBones666 reviewed on 08 Feb 2008
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shenzhou reviewed on 06 Feb 2008
A visit to the author's website only shows a window to retrieve your lost serial and not any support or developments in progress.
Looks like I have to write off what I paid since no update for Leopard is forthcoming.
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DrBones666 reviewed on 25 Oct 2007
Don't buy this. He's been promissing the ability to save to disks for over a year now. This is just a trap to get your $30.
There is plenty for free that does that same job.
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DrBones666 reviewed on 19 Jul 2007
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I have high hopes for Lifeboat though - and this is a comment rather than a review because it's *possible* that some of the above is my problem rather than the software's - is there going to be an update soon?
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tfindlay reviewed on 13 Jul 2006
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gcoghill reviewed on 03 Jun 2006
Lifeboat not only had everything I was looking for in a backup app, but also has a very responsive developer, willing to take suggestions and fix any glitches. I had a few probs when demoing the app, but I think they were on my end (hard drive going bad and mucking up my system). The dev was super helpful throughout the troubleshooting, and when 1.2 came along I found almost all my requested features implemented.
I registered before the demo expired and have been a happy user ever since.
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