 | Nov 21 2008 |
GREGJ Stay Far Away From This Software............. They can't even maintain their Web Site. 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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| Sep 21 2009 |
MINER Nice comment, I also use SuperDuper, but that is a bit of a sublime one-trick pony which I use for cloning. 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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| Feb 25 2008 |
TVCNET Tri-Backup 4.04 was exceptional last year... 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. 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. 1. Pay a company who is charging for upgrades and who's upgrade history between versions spans a year a more. 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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| Mar 5 2008 |
CAPTAINPOVEY Reviewing software based on an exchange rate and xenophobia is never very helpful. 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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| Feb 7 2008 |
DONPERREAULT These guys are two days late for the party.
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 | Oct 5 2006 |
WILMA Summary: Great backup, lousy restore 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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| Apr 11 2006 |
FFASS Great backup software! I've been using this app for years for normal daily backups with no problems. 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.
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| Sep 5 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Looks interesting. But requires StuffIt to decompress. I don't want to install StuffIt, so I'll have to look elsewhere for a backup program.
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| May 26 2005 |
ANONYMOUS It's written : "A 'lite' version is also available for free." But I nomore see it.
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| Sep 27 2004 |
FOOZMAN This is good app for backing up to a server or external drive. It allows compression and encryption, and it will make evolutive backups (that save older versions of files). I don't know how I would like it for backing up to removable media like CD-ROMs, but it has this capability. I am currently biased towards Retrospect (expensive), Impression (cheap) or cdbackup (free, but with only command line interface) for that purpose.
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| Aug 2 2004 |
ERIC This is a fantastic app. It is the only backup program I found that will allow you to do the various backup actions between user accounts .. no permissions to worry about or access privileges. The interface is very intuitive. Thank you Mr. Developer!
(Version 4.0.1) | |
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| Feb 27 2004 |
OZNZ Not true, jvhVR : I make bootable drive copies every day. Tri-Backup is the Finest Backup program on the market. It's updated often, It's extremely reliable, and the programmers answer questions promptly. I backup 240 GB/day and have tried every program on the market. CCC is ok but doesn't do 1/10th of what Tri-Backup does. Elegant and Powerful.
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 | Feb 27 2004 |
JVHVR 4.0.1 does not start on my system (OS X 10.3.3)... ?
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| May 13 2005 |
ANONYMOUS 4.0.2 does not work on my tiger, nothing moves, Lacie SilverKeeper 1.1.3 is better and easier to use.
(Version 4.0.2) | |
| Jul 8 2003 |
ANONYMOUS This program is elegant, lean and mean, and simply works. I work all day and don't worry about anything, because I know it's running it's schedule and all is well. This is really an easy, straight ahead program that does what it says. I run an external Firewire drive for backing up what I'm doing all day, and it updates all changes and keeps things current...I don't have to think about it...which is really nice at the end of the day.
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| Feb 4 2003 |
ANON I cannot think of a bad thing to say about this program. It gives you multiple options for backing up your files, works smoothly and is intuitive. After searching long and hard for a simple but flexible backup program this one is the one that has done the trick. V. 3.1.6 OS9.2
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| Jan 5 2003 |
JVHVR Indeed, you can't use this program to make a bootable backup. Use Carbon Copy Cloner instead !
(Version 3.1.5) | |
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| Dec 1 2003 |
MR. X I made 2 bootable exact copy of my system on external firewire drives before. Never had a problem...
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| Jan 5 2002 |
ZAN I was very excited to hear about this product because it claimed to be able to backup Mac OS X volumes and that the backups would be bootable, but I found that it wasn't the case, in practice. This feature gets a briefer-than-brief mention in the PDF manual (which appears to have been written in German and then run through a translator program) and I had no success transferring my boot volume to a larger drive. I tried several times. It wasn't much fun.
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