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Backup is provided free-of-charge to customers of Apple's MobileMe service. Backup allows users to backup (or create scheduled backups) of their data, either to the user's iDisk or external media.
What's New
Version 3.2:
- Improves the reliability of backup restore and uses space more efficiently on your iDisk or local storage (e.g. external hard drive or DVD).
Requirements
- PPC / Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
- MobileMe account
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Backup is provided free-of-charge to customers of Apple's MobileMe service. Backup allows users to backup (or create scheduled backups) of their data, either to the user's iDisk or external media.
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Donmontalvo reviewed on 14 Apr 2010
OK, so having done MobileMe support for a few months (until something better came along after I relocated to TX), I can tell you that many, many people have been burned by this Backup application, when used in conjunction with MobileMe.
Call MobileMe support (or chat them through the Apple Support forum) and ask a tech if it's possible to do a complete restore using Backup archives stored in MobileMe. Go ahead...
Free. Yes. Good. No. Get Carbon Copy Cloner or  SuperDuper...
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I also use Super Duper and Carbon Copy Cloner for cloning, but for general backup to Mobile Me and to a 140G flash drive, Backup works very well.
Don't know about Apple Support on this, since I've not run into the issues you have.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2096
Which implicitly states: "Note: You should not create or employ Backup Plans containing more than 90 MB of data with iDisk."
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Anon-Bud reviewed on 13 Apr 2010
I use Backup primarily to run some of the built in scripts that comes with it. Don't know if these are needed, but it does give me peace of mind knowing they are there.
One thing I really do not like about Backup: it always opens the Finder when it loads. I use Pathfinder all the time, and so have Finder shut down. Backup overrides that (as does the mounting of disks). Maybe this is not a Backup thing, but a Mac thing in that every time a disk mounts, Finder has to do it.
Anyway. It's a pretty good app for my purposes. And it's free. Can't beat that!
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Odysseus reviewed on 13 Apr 2010
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However, as an FYI:
- The application is published automatically to the iDisk for MobileMe subscribers.
- Many people, in many countries, around the world use MobileMe (aka .Mac or dotMac) for backup of critical information and sharing that data across computers and platforms.
- Many important things are backed up for these subscribers and includes things like bookmarks, calendars, contacts, mail, system preferences , notes, etc.
- BackUp 3 extends the built-in backup features I highlight in the previous point by allowing more control of other discrete data. It also allows for the backup of rich content and other data above and beyond what the built-in MobileMe preferencePane allows for. Finally it allows for scheduled backups, selection of storage medium like optical disks, and other customization.
As far as FREE backup software goes this is a fairly good product for what it can do. I would suggest that people try it first to see if it provides the intuitive level of functionality that they need for their given backup needs and then post their hints and tips for others.
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Kenneth Lister reviewed on 01 Mar 2007
I like it.
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John F. reviewed on 25 Jan 2006
mtbeckner reviewed on 22 Jan 2006
That said, I recently backed up my essentials prior to a hard drive crash. I followed everything to the letter and checked the package contents to make sure all's was hunky-dorey, and so it was.
Following the insanely frustrating disposal & replacement of a hard drive -- performed all by Apple -- I then went back to my discs to restore my info to my "new" laptop.
And guess what? Yup, although the app recognized the data on the disc as native to that app, and although the app launched, nothing happened. Nothing! The only thing that did seem to happen correctly was that the DVD I restored to appeared as a valid restore source. Could I then actually restore that data? Nope. Did it give a reason? Nope. Were the help notes...well, helpful? Not a chance.
Unfortunately for these review purposes, Apple gets an F. What good is an application if it doesn't -- can't or won't -- perform the basic of core-related functions?
RECOVERY TIP: The only way I was able to recover my data from DVD was to do something that the average user wouldn't ever know about: I viewed the package contents, then mounted the .sparseimage, then manually dragged what I needed onto my new hard drive.
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Internal System Error
An unrecoverable internal error has occurred."
Satellite internet connection, but Backup's worked before on it. Apple tech help has no idea what to do. Help!
Isn't this 'issue number 1' for a backup system - graceful recovery from network failure?
One of the reasons I upgraded from 10.3 was because Backup started behaving this way. Assumed it was to do with my system. Now I think it's systematically associated with the .Mac offering.
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Donald Barron rated on 04 Dec 2011
Ibear rated on 27 Feb 2011