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Mathusalem is a robust and unintrusive backup system for Mac OS X Leopard, which can be used either as a System Preferences pane or directly as a command line tool.
Mathusalem is complementary to Time Machine as it backups automatically one or more directories of your choice to remote servers in order ensure extra safety of your most important data. Be aware that Mathusalem is not designed to "clone" an entire file system or a subportion of it, but instead to optimally handle everyday simple backups.
Mathusalem is complementary to Time Machine as it backups automatically one or more directories of your choice to remote servers in order ensure extra safety of your most important data. Be aware that Mathusalem is not designed to "clone" an entire file system or a subportion of it, but instead to optimally handle everyday simple backups.
- Mathusalem supports a wide range of destinations: local drives,
What's New
Version 1.6:
New Features
FTP support now implements the delete operation
Backup data files are now cached locally for faster history browsing
Added support for Secure Amazon S3 (HTTPS)
French translation
Requires 1% of extra free space instead of 1Gb on local drive when creating archive so that backup works on small USB keys
Passwords can now contain the '?' character
Backup containing locked files do not fail anymore
Fixed hang that could happen when editing path exclusion lists
Path exclusion lists are now case-insensitive instead of case-sensitive
Version 1.6:
New Features
FTP support now implements the delete operation
Backup data files are now cached locally for faster history browsing
Added support for Secure Amazon S3 (HTTPS)
French translation
Requires 1% of extra free space instead of 1Gb on local drive when more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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Mathusalem is a robust and unintrusive backup system for Mac OS X Leopard, which can be used either as a System Preferences pane or directly as a command line tool.
Mathusalem is complementary to Time Machine as it backups automatically one or more directories of your choice to remote servers in order ensure extra safety of your most important data. Be aware that Mathusalem is not designed to "clone" an entire file system or a subportion of it, but instead to optimally handle everyday simple backups.
Mathusalem is complementary to Time Machine as it backups automatically one or more directories of your choice to remote servers in order ensure extra safety of your most important data. Be aware that Mathusalem is not designed to "clone" an entire file system or a subportion of it, but instead to optimally handle everyday simple backups.
- Mathusalem supports a wide range of destinations: local drives, iDisk, WebDAV, AFP, SMB, FTP, SFTP or Amazon S3
- It can generate archives in various formats: sparse or compressed .dmg and CPIO or ZIP archives
- It generates fully self-contained backups i.e. data and settings which makes it possible to access them from any machine or even relocate them
- It can restart a download or upload that failed or was cancelled by the user without having to restart the entire backup
- It runs in low-priority mode on your machine so it doesn't hang your CPU or hard drive
- It runs only when necessary (it is managed by launchd like other system services)
- It is fully open-source which means no proprietary file formats (backup data files are plain XML)
- It stores passwords in the Keychain
- It reports detailed information on the backup progress
- The command line tool version can be integrated in existing tool chains or used with launchd
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Valentinissimo reviewed on 03 Jan 2009
Amazon S3 seems to work for the majority of users (if not all) as there are no issue report so far.
However, there is a pending issue on Mathusalem stuck in "idle" mode that a few users experienced:
http://code.google.com/p/mathusalem/issues/detail?id=55
If you have any info on this, please add a comment to the issue, so that it can be investigated.
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Console logs show that the backup completes with result null and nothing is in my ftp folder.
Looks like it will be a nice tool when its working.
You should consider posting your issues in the developers queue located at:
http://code.google.com/p/mathusalem/issues/list
I've posted two issues there and they were both fixed or added the next day.
A really, really great program especially when coupled with S3, the only place where time machine can't take you.
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I deleted everything, reinstalled Mathusalem tonight and tried again and it appears to be working. It is quick and looks to work very well. However, I'll not be sending any bugs if this is how you respond to a legitimate issue.
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I tried to use this to back up my home directory to S3. I chose an encrypted compressed disk image as the archive type. It made a complete local copy of the source directory, including all the files I had excluded from backup, then stalled with the progress dialog showing "idle". No data was uploaded.
Also, I noticed that it can't create a new bucket if one already exists.
If the developer keeps working on it, this might be a useful app someday.
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"Unable to read BOM file (null)"
What does that mean and what do I do?
Is there a way to email the developer except through this review?
Thanks
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