Parachute

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.

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.