Tri-BACKUP

Name: Tri-BACKUP
Price: 69.99 $
Rating: 3.75 (7 reviews)

9.1.2

16 October 2019

Automatically backup files on multiple machines.

Overview

Tri-BACKUP is a backup utility that automatically saves your data (from a single folder to an entire disk), synchronize folders, and creates and maintains bootable copy of your disk.

Multiples modes: copy, backup, synchronize, remove, compress, compare, etc.
Different backup modes: Evolutive (saves successive versions of each document), Mirror (identical copy), Incremental partial backup, Disk Copy, etc.
Programmed Actions executed in background, with automatic scheduling.
Immediate Actions to precisely control what must be copied, deleted,or modified.
Automatic mount of remote volumes.

What's new in Tri-BACKUP

Version 9.1.2:

Enhancements:

macOS 10.15 Catalina compatibility (except creation of bootable copies).
When copying the startup disk, exclude the links to the Data disk (under Catalina).
Various minor enhancements and interface changes.

Tri-BACKUP Screenshots

22 Tri-BACKUP Reviews

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After many years of using Tri-Backup I am leaving this software for good. This software is a solid backup solution but is far too expensive to keep. Upgrades should be reasonable. Expecting $50 for minor updates every couple of years is ridiculous. I have switched to Chronosync. Chronosync is a one time purchase of $39. Upgrades are free forever. I also find Chronosyn a superior solution for my needs. Goodbye...

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Version 8.0.2

It works for me on a 10.11.6. One difference to CCC is, that this one has a bug, "root creation date" on bootable backups. I remember this from the times of OS9... Nothing changes :D

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Version 8.1.1

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Version 8.0.2

2 answer(s)

Hank2

17 September 2016

ChronoSync is $49.99 (USD). ChronoSync + ChronoAgent Bundle is $59.98 (USD).

BuffaloJohn

20 September 2016

Thanks Hank. They did just raise the price. Chronosync continues to impress... I will also point out that Chronosync is a one time purchase. Once you buy it upgrades are free forever!

Do not trust this company. I purchased Tri-Backup years ago, then there was an OS update, and Tri-Backup vanished. It was a completely dead product. There were no updates for literally over 5+ years. Then, all of the sudden, they reappear from the dead, and start making updates again, and all of their customers that they let hang out to dry are expected to pay to get their application working again, that they already paid for, and it never worked in the first place. There is no customer loyalty at all. They could just vanish off the face of the earth again at any time. I have been using ChronoSync ever since, and it has been great with amazing support and upgrade policies.

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Version 7.1.4

1 answer(s)

Thirol

08 July 2015

Hello,
This is not the truth. You should have missed something!
5 years ago, there was Tri-BACKUP 5. Since we released Tri-BACKUP 6 late 2011 and Tri-BACKUP 7 early 2014, with minor updates regularly.
Yes, major upgrades are paying (5 or 6 to 7 for example), but minor updates are free (a version 7 can be updated for free to 7.x.x versions).
Thierry Rolland

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With every major release they make a slightly different UI... but all are terrible and not at all macosx like. the app itself works good but their ui designers should be condemned to a life time working with their own UIs :D (peace)

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Version 7.0.0

Mousee

16 September 2011

$49 for an upgrade is a little high. Make it $29, or even $39 and I'll consider it. For now I'll stick with v5.

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Version 6.0.0

1 answer(s)

Kitmos

16 September 2011

agreed, although a revamped interface is LONG overdue

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Tri-Backup is the best backup program for the Mac. I have tried everything Synk7, ChronoSync, iBackup, GetBackupPro, Smartbackup - none of these programs can match TriBackup! TriBackup5 every cent is worth it! From the simple to the expert mode, very good help and an assistant. For an administrator with regular backup essential services and the remote start backups over the local network will love it soon! Runs on Intel and PPC extremely stable - had been no crash on PPC no matter, or iMacCore2 iMaci7. Consumes very little computing power and demand has Tribackup other useful dialogue for the professional (logs, status, etc.). Available languages English, French, German (www.softdes.de). Look at it, check them out and how you will use it every day!

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Version 5.2.8

"Update downloaded.." So where the #.7% is it ?

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Version 5.2.4

3 answer(s)

Mrglsmrc

14 December 2009

it's on your hard drive. use the finder to look for it.

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Version 5.2.4

Detlevski

03 May 2010

It's on your hard drive O, really ? That's quite helpfull, probably the answer to this question is also on "their site"

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Version 5.2.7

Waynei

13 August 2010

I'm guessing in your downloads folder if you're using Snow Leopard. Perhaps your desktop if using an older OS.

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Version 5.2.8

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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Version 5.1.2

4 answer(s)

Miner

21 September 2009

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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Version 5.2.1

Xenophile

07 August 2012

@Miner: If TBU is so great, why do you have to supplement it with SuperDuper and Synk Pro? It doesn't sound like TBU is at all versatile if it can't do what it says on the tin!

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Miner

07 August 2012

Other way around: Started with SuperDuper, but found that too limited for real backup. Then Synk to supplement, but for synking it was good, but for backup, versioning it was not. TBU does it all, and if that where the first I had bought, I had never looked back. But since I have licenses to all, I can cherry-pick for the task at hand.

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bowlerboy-jmb

19 February 2014

I appreciate Miner's comments, not only about this product but about the need to have reviewers chime in who can provide insights based on having used and compared features and benefits, as well as flaws and idiot=syncrosies, of all the products seeking a market in their category. I used to be a diehard Retrospect user, when it was in its heyday and the only game in town worth considering. Now I won't touch it. I agree with Miner is SuperDuper is the software of choice for cloning, but not necessarily for backup, or for incremental storing of works-in-progress. I loved Retrospect for that. I don't much like the price of Tri-Backup, but, based on Miner's insights, I might give it a try. I'll have to run in against Intego's product again, as well as a proprietary product that comes bundled with my external LaCie drives. I find ChronoSync exceptionally versatile for file and folder syncing, and although its document says that it can also clone drives and be used for incremental backups, I have yet to do my test and comparisons. GetBackUp+ is wonderfully fast and easy for syncing up files in different folders across internal and external volumes. So, too, is Syncovery, the new name for the SuperFlexibleSliceEmandDiceEm-LongistWeirdestSoftwareName in the world, which it still seems to be, although Mac purists keep knocking its interface as being too Windoze-like. I never tried Synk Pro, nor did I ever get far into Carbon Carbon Copy, once I discovered SuperDuper and concluded it met my needs in that department. In short, I, too, do not think that there is any one program which does it all, i.e., backing up, backing up incrementally, syncing files and folders across all kinds of barriers, and cloning. So, test them all out, until you find the set that meets your individual needs. Just stop putting a program if it can't be the Swiss Army knife of the backup world: you'll only make yourself sick.

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. My gripe: 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. So, you get to decide: 1. Pay a company who is charging for upgrades and who's upgrade history between versions spans a year a more. Version 5 beta: Feb 2008 Version 4.0.4: Jan 2006 Version 4.0.3: May 2005 Version 4.0.2: Aug 2004 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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Version 5.0b80204

1 answer(s)

Captainpovey

05 March 2008

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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Version 5.0

Tri-BACKUP

Overview

What's new in Tri-BACKUP

Enhancements:

Tri-BACKUP Screenshots

22 Tri-BACKUP Reviews

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