User profile for user: Kurt Weber
Kurt Weber Author
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Silver Keeper stops support

Luckily, Silverkeeper still works in Lion but since they dropped support I am looking for an alternative when some update kills it.


Anyone using a Silver Keeper like app for backups?


Features it needs:


1. Custom sets and schedules

2. Backups of all sets at once

3. Ability of save a set number of copies of a folder before starting over.

4. Fast


I am not a fan of Time Machine hogging my external drive. If there are other suggestions on how to limit Time Machine's hog the drive process I would be interested as well.


Kurt

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), 4gb ram; Finale 2011, music stuff

Posted on Aug 3, 2011 4:34 PM

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User profile for user: Kappy
Kappy
User level: Level 10
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Aug 3, 2011 4:38 PM in response to Kurt Weber

Backup Software Recommendations


Carbon Copy Cloner

Data Backup

Deja Vu

Super Flexible File Synchronizer

SuperDuper!

Synchronize Pro! X

Synk Pro

Synk Standard

Tri-Backup


Others may be found at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.


Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.


Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper! are very popular with many OS X users and pros. The latest versions of each are Lion compatible. Synk and Synk Pro 7.x are both Lion compatible.

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User profile for user: Kurt Weber
Kurt Weber Author
User level: Level 6
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Aug 4, 2011 7:25 AM in response to Kappy

One of the reasons I will use Silver keeper until it dies is its ability to easily create backup sets and, if you wish, to back them all up at once. I could not figure a way to do that with Carbon Copy Cloner. It also has a cool feature that I don't see in the others, the ability to make several copies of a folder and reuse them. I do this for iWeb. Silver Keeper creates an iWeb, iWeb2 and iWeb3 folder before it starts over and deletes the info in the iWeb folder.


I am not a "save a thousand versions" type of guy. Most of the time I just replace all modified files, with the occasional duplicated folder like I do in iWeb. Silver Keeper can mix and match preferences easily and it is still free.

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User profile for user: Todd Berliner
Todd Berliner
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Dec 13, 2011 5:44 AM in response to Kappy

I'm disappointed too that Silverkeeper isn't supported anymore since I use it four times every weekday in order to, in the morning, move files from my home computer to a pocket drive to my work computer and back again at the end of the day.


I'm hoping someone can recommend one of the other backup programs so that I don't have to spend the many hours it would take to test them. I care only about one feature: The program's ability to smart copy a folder from one drive to another (that is, its ability to copy only the changed items in a folder to another drive without compression). I don't require any scheduling features or multiple backup features.


Its a simple need and Silverkeeper satisfied it perfectly.


About 15-20 years ago, there was a feature available for the Mac that enabled "smart copying" by simply dragging a folder on one drive to another drive with a folder that had the same title. That feature would satisfy me just as well.


I'd appreciate someone's help.

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