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Deja Vu offers an intuitive and reliable way to back up your data. It's a preference pane that shows up in your System Preferences, and it allows you to schedule unattended backups of important folders, or even your entire system.
With Deja Vu, you can:
With Deja Vu, you can:
- Backup an unlimited number of folders.
- Accurately clone your OS X system disk, producing a bootable copy.
- Perform backups manually at the click of a button, or schedule them to run whenever it's convenient for you. Backups may be scheduled on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, and may be performed even when you
What's New
Version 4.1.1:
- General fixes and improvements for remote backups
- Minor Auto-Connect improvements
- We now enable ownership on a given destination volume only if ownership is currently enabled on the corresponding source volume.
- Fixed a regression which was causing ownership to be enabled more than once per volume.
- Disable UI when a backup is in progress.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
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Deja Vu offers an intuitive and reliable way to back up your data. It's a preference pane that shows up in your System Preferences, and it allows you to schedule unattended backups of important folders, or even your entire system.
With Deja Vu, you can:
Deja Vu has been localized for English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian, and Finnish.
With Deja Vu, you can:
- Backup an unlimited number of folders.
- Accurately clone your OS X system disk, producing a bootable copy.
- Perform backups manually at the click of a button, or schedule them to run whenever it's convenient for you. Backups may be scheduled on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, and may be performed even when you aren't logged in.
- Save time by backing up only the files that have changed since the last backup.
- Perform backups over a network. Deja Vu can even automatically connect to remote servers at backup time!
- Mirror the contents of folders. Files which have been deleted from the source folder can optionally be deleted from the destination folder as well.
- Keep your system in good health by automatically repairing your disk permissions before backing up.
Deja Vu has been localized for English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian, and Finnish.
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MU JJ reviewed on 12 Sep 2011
I bought deja vu 10 months ago at $29. Then it stopped working after I tested a beta at the developer's request. Now I have to pay again (registration stopped working) to get the same product working. No option to downgrade.
Jeff Holland, the developer responded: "We work hard to make Déjà Vu an excellent backup utility and we think we deserve to be paid for it. If the day comes when enough people like you disagree, we will stop working on it.
Are you paid only once per year for the work that you do?"
So you buy a product, test beta software and give feedback, and than you are being asked to pay again like it is a subscription service. When asked how to download, Jeff Holland simply stops replying.
Thanks and come again!
When buying the product, keep in mind you might have to pay again in a year or so and that Jeff might stop developing the product.
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I am registered user of both utilities and many other backup utilities. I use Arq & SynkPro and Carbon Copy Cloner as my primary backup utilities.
Yes, I am anal about backing up.
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Antoniong reviewed on 01 Aug 2011
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This is a backup back package and should be working.
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Well at least there is a response now. I never got one. But it remains a shame that someone needs zoo much time to get a paid product working. He should have released a working one within days because he had testing opportunities enough.
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"Deja Vu 4.0
NOTE: This is a free upgrade for anyone who has purchased a Deja Vu license in 2011. Otherwise, it is a paid upgrade.
Deja Vu 4 can only be installed on Mac OS X Lion (10.7)."
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Antoniong reviewed on 02 May 2011
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Primewavez reviewed on 07 Jul 2010
The app works relatively well, until you get to a file larger than 4GB, and then the "Safety Net" feature ALWAYS makes copies of the file, regardless of it's modified status. It steals hard drive space down faster than you could ever imagine if you're working with large files, which is mostly what I work with.
I emailed the developer back in January asking for assistance before buying the software, as it is useless to me if it is going to needlessly duplicate large files. I never heard back from the developer and I never paid for the software.
Still looking for a similar, functional solution if anyone has ideas.
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Martyn Ford reviewed on 17 Dec 2009
But a major flaw in the Auto Mounting network drives to do with Leopard and Snow Leopards keychain permissions has rendered this side of the software useless with no reply from the Developer I will be looking elsewhere.
If your backing up to an external drive attached to the machine then this software uses less time, processing power and space than Time Machine
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Tapper reviewed on 20 Jul 2009
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Referring a customer to their FAQ or their HELP system is not necessarily something that you should hold against a developer. In many cases, all that is necessary to cure a problem is to follow the instructions given by the developer to use their product.
Perhaps you were lazy and you did not do your homework. Perhaps you were asking them to solve a typical problem that comes up so often among novice users that they had already addressed that issue in their FAQ.
No software product is so intuitive that a customer should expect to have complete mastery over it without spending at least a little time to learn how to use it. You may know how to drive a car, but that does not mean that you know where all the buttons and gizmos are on ALL vehicles. Similarly, using any software correctly implies that the customer must take a certain degree of personal responsibility to actually read the guidelines regarding how to use the software.
Maybe you did not take the time to learn the product sufficiently. If so, then it wasn't the developer who bailed out on you, but you who bailed out on yourself. You put them in a situation in which they had to choose to reinvent the wheel and spend an inordinate amount of time holding your hand for a relatively uncomplicated piece of software OR refer to the answer they had already provided. I don't know this software, nor this particular developer, but, in general, I think the developer chose the right course of action in your case.
If I were a developer, and a customer asked me to solve a problem for them which they ought to be able to solve themselves based on the information which I had already provided, then I might behave in exactly the same way that this developer did in regards to you. For your part, I suppose that you could get so ticked off that you didn't get my special attention that you could vent your frustration by posting a nasty note about the developer, as you have done. Or, you could look in the mirror, have the courage to see the error of your ways, and make changes to grow from the situation. Either way, the problem would be yours, not mine, so it is up to you what to do about it.
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md07 reviewed on 08 Nov 2007
Deja Vu has never let me down. I use it regularly to backup to an AFP share and I really like how it doesn't hide anything or do any kind of sub-folder witchcraft with my files. I tried Time Machine, Synk, Superduper, Carbon Copy Cloner, and Crashplan, and I just like the way Deja Vu works better than the rest.
The only reason I would give this a 4 instead of a 5 for features is because I don't think there is a way to make a bootable backup. This isn't too much of a problem for me since a lot of the software I use needs to be re-installed or re-authorized even with a bootable backup anyway. You can make a bootable clone of your drive with Disk Utility anyway.
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Deja Vu can indeed make bootable backups:
http://propagandaprod.com/help.html#how_to_clone