Parachute for Mac1.1.0

Absolute trash. Doesn't save preferences properly manually or automatically. With two programmers we fought with Parachute for forty minutes before moving onto the automatic scheduling in YummyFTP. I'd really like our money back.

I have mixed feeling about this program. Because I bought another product from the developer, they kindly offered this second application a few months later - for free. So that was fantastic. The backup function works well and in certain backups it performs exactly what I would want. But there is very little ability to tweak the configuration. You nominate a source directory and a destination, and a schedule. It is impossible to stop it using a data-like sub-folder in the destination directory - YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS. In certain situations I like this functionality and it works well. On other occasions I just want to back one directory to another rather than to a sub-directory. Ideally I would like to be able to synchronise 2 directories. So maybe I should be using something else, but to me a backup tool should also be able to synchronise. At the moment I am using backuplist+ for this syncing purpose.

I think this software has great potential, but for me, I can't use it until I can get it to launch and complete my schedule backups in the background. As of right now, it launches to complete the scheduled backup, but doesn't back anything up. I get no error message, no warning or any note that says the backup did not complete. The only way it does automated backups is if I have the scheduled backup highlighted in the app, and then I just hide Parachute. Is this just my setup that is causing this, or are there any others that are having problems with automated backups. Man, I really want this app to work! [Cerebrl]

This is a much better design than other larger backup apps, but why the price tag? This size program shouldn't be more than $10.