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Old 11-23-2008, 11:27 PM   #4
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Actually I second what Buff says. And for the Mac too, for those that don't want to backup to a connected disk and want to do it on the network.. I've tried a few and none seem to work properly.

Cobian Backup and Backup4All are pretty decent examples of something that is really good backup software, but assumes too much of the user.

Here's a simple example.

I have two computers in the house at the moment, and a small NAS with mirrored drives which store all my critical and shared data.

What I want is something that keeps both my computers backed up to the NAS. Something that does incremental and full backups and presents that to the user in such a way that it's dead simple to understand what's going on. Something like time machine that does constant backups and allows me to backwards over previous versions of files.

Another good feature would be to facilitate offsite backups, a reverse backup from the network share to an attached external HDD maybe, though that I guess is really just a copy feature.
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