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Tri-BACKUP is a backup utility that automatically saves your data (from a single folder to an entire disk), synchronize folders, and creates and maintains bootable copy of your disk.
- Multiples modes: copy, backup, synchronize, remove, compress, compare, etc.
- Different backup modes: Evolutive (saves successive versions of each document), Mirror (identical copy), Incremental partial backup, Disk Copy, etc.
- Programmed Actions executed in background, with automatic scheduling.
- Immediate Actions to precisely control what must be copied, deleted,or modified.
- Automatic
What's New
Version 6.2.1:
- Various minor enhancements and interface changes
- Fixed an issue generating error messages when copying files already opened by another application
- Various minor corrections
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
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Tri-BACKUP is a backup utility that automatically saves your data (from a single folder to an entire disk), synchronize folders, and creates and maintains bootable copy of your disk.
- Multiples modes: copy, backup, synchronize, remove, compress, compare, etc.
- Different backup modes: Evolutive (saves successive versions of each document), Mirror (identical copy), Incremental partial backup, Disk Copy, etc.
- Programmed Actions executed in background, with automatic scheduling.
- Immediate Actions to precisely control what must be copied, deleted,or modified.
- Automatic mount of remote volumes.
- And much more.
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MrFlatulences reviewed on 10 Feb 2011
TriBackup5 every cent is worth it! From the simple to the expert mode, very good help and an assistant. For an administrator with regular backup essential services and the remote start backups over the local network will love it soon! Runs on Intel and PPC extremely stable - had been no crash on PPC no matter, or iMacCore2 iMaci7. Consumes very little computing power and demand has Tribackup other useful dialogue for the professional (logs, status, etc.). Available languages English, French, German (www.softdes.de).
Look at it, check them out and how you will use it every day!
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I recommend Super Duper for backup software at a reasonable price. I have used it for many many years and the upgrades are FREE !!!!!!!!!!!
Nuff Said !
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And I use Synk Pro for synchronization, for which it is superb.
Tri-BackUp is substantially more versatile than either, which comes at the price of complexity. But for Backup I rely on TBU!
A comment that product A is very good adds very little to assess the merits of product B, imo.
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The new 5.0 beta version is nicely featured as well and seems to respond very well in Leopard.
Downside is that 4.04 is flaky if it works at all under Mac OS X Leopard, requiring you to dump 4.04 and install the 5.0 beta.
Once the beta expires you'll be forced to pay the new software fee:
Upgrade price is US$49 from Tri-BACKUP 4 to Tri-BACKUP 5 (normal
version), and US$69 to Tri-BACKUP Pro 5.
My gripe:
First, the value of the dollar has dropped, so this $49 is not last years $49. So they've affectively raised their rates while other just as decent software developed by hard working US developers costs half as much.
So, you get to decide:
1. Pay a company who is charging for upgrades and who's upgrade history between versions spans a year a more.
Version 5 beta: Feb 2008
Version 4.0.4: Jan 2006
Version 4.0.3: May 2005
Version 4.0.2: Aug 2004
2. Pay a company who has effectively raised their rates at a time when their version 4.04 version has become nonresponsive under Panther (something akin to holding some folks by the you know what, because the old version no longer works reliably).
3. Go with a USA company who's offering lower cost software with a good upgrades track record, who doesn't have a record of increasing their rate when an older version stops working... so you are trapped into paying for the next version.
I hate being forced to pay software companies because they stop supporting their apps.
I recommend supporting companies who maintain ongoing a history of periodic upgrades, instead of one that took almost a year to upgrade to 5.0, and then appear to be forcing existing paid customers to pay when their older version stopped working.
Enjoy!
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And why not take Adobe as an example of a good 'ol USA company - they update less frequently than Tri-edre AND charge European customers more than twice the US price?
Bad practices exist on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Wilma reviewed on 05 Oct 2006
I just tested this software. It does a great job backing up, with lots of options. Backups can be native file format in a Finder folder hierarchy, so you can search them with any search utility. Iterative backups get made within the same folder hierarchy, in dated folders. It's fast. It's smart.
Unfortunately, Tri-BACKUP's restore functionality is, AFAICT, extremely limited. You can't simply tell it to restore a folder to how it was at last backup ... or at a given date in the past ... or how it was when some previous backup got made. Nope, you've got to manually page through a file list to decide which version of what gets restored. Since I have over 250,000 files in my Documents folder alone, plus a huge photo archive, restoring using Tri-BACKUP just isn't practical.
Too bad, because otherwise it's a nice program, and I've heard very good reports about its reliability.
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ffass reviewed on 11 Apr 2006
Due to some recent computer problems I've realized that I needed to use Tri-Backup to take my data backups to another level. So, I recently cloned my start up disk to another drive using Tri-Backup and it made a perfect bootable duplicate! I now have the program set up to quickly update the cloned copy at the click of a button.
The impetus for cloning my start up drive was what seemed to be a drive failure, but the use of Disk Warrior and an OS reinstall fixed what actually turned out to be a "missing node" problem. I had "evolutive" backups on hand of my data but it still took a day and half to manually drag or reinstall everything back to where it previously was.
Having a bootable clone is of great benefit in light of my experience: now if some digital disaster rears it's ugly head, I can now simply reboot to start up drive #2 and jump right back into whatever it was that I was doing on my computer, and deal with the problematic drive at a more convenient time later on.
Note that cloning a drive is NEVER a sensible replacement for regular backups of your valuable data! I suggest using Tri-Backup's "evolutive" backup scheme to retain at least 5 previous versions of your important files.
Anonymous reviewed on 05 Sep 2005
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Anonymous reviewed on 02 Aug 2004
The interface is very intuitive. Thank you Mr. Developer!
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So where the #.7% is it ?
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O, really ? That's quite helpfull, probably the answer to this question is also on "their site"
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Perhaps your desktop if using an older OS.
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Lacie SilverKeeper 1.1.3 is better and easier to use.
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MrFlatulences rated on 10 Feb 2011