A lot of drives have a button on them that automatically starts the backup process. That makes it a no-brainer to do backups.
Unfortunately, that usually means using the bundled backup software, and most bundled backup software sucks. Which you often only find out when you need to restore, and end up taking a day or two to get your system back to mostly how it was, but with some things not quite right. I ran into that issue with the idiotic backup program that came bundled with the 200G Seagate external drive I bought a year and a half ago.
For OS X, I recommend SuperDuper. Buy the pay version for $28, it's only a little bit to add to the cost of the drive, and it'll be worth it.
For geeky types, rsnapshot is a nifty way of backing up your Unix box remotely using rsync, but with incrementals. And since OS X is unix and runs rsync, you can use it to back up onto an external drive connected to your Mac.
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Date: 2006-11-28 07:05 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, that usually means using the bundled backup software, and most bundled backup software sucks. Which you often only find out when you need to restore, and end up taking a day or two to get your system back to mostly how it was, but with some things not quite right. I ran into that issue with the idiotic backup program that came bundled with the 200G Seagate external drive I bought a year and a half ago.
For OS X, I recommend SuperDuper. Buy the pay version for $28, it's only a little bit to add to the cost of the drive, and it'll be worth it.
For geeky types, rsnapshot is a nifty way of backing up your Unix box remotely using rsync, but with incrementals. And since OS X is unix and runs rsync, you can use it to back up onto an external drive connected to your Mac.