backup advice

[Raymond Camden]

I'm using Mozzy, a ver nice, but PC only, free back up system. Can
anyone recommend such a service for the Mac?

So - it is a sad day. I've had crashes with my MBP since the day I got
it. Not a lot - but like 3-4 a week. I haven't lost anything yet...

My wife's MB crashed today. That means both Macs are dead or maybe on
the way to death. I hope this is just random bad luck and not a sign
of things to come. I know I love OSX, as does my wife.


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[Joseph Lamoree-2]

On 3 Jul 2006, at 12:07, Raymond Camden wrote:

> I'm using Mozzy, a ver nice, but PC only, free back up system. Can
> anyone recommend such a service for the Mac?

I'm not familiar with Mozzy, so my suggestions might not be what  
you're looking for at all. I use Super Duper! to backup my machines.  
I know that a lot of people are happy with the backup service and  
software included with .Mac. It's worth checking out.

> So - it is a sad day.

With regard to MacBook +/- Pro crashes, I would expect to see these  
quirks all ironed out soon. There are gobs of apps that need Rosetta,  
and don't work quite right with a PowerPC chip.

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[Sean Corfield]

On 7/3/06, Raymond Camden <rcamden@...> wrote:
> I'm using Mozzy, a ver nice, but PC only, free back up system. Can
> anyone recommend such a service for the Mac?

No idea what Mozzy is or does. I use SilverKeeper on my Mac.

> So - it is a sad day. I've had crashes with my MBP since the day I got
> it. Not a lot - but like 3-4 a week. I haven't lost anything yet...

You should take it back to Apple. I've had just one crash with my MBP
in a month and I consider that to be unusually high. In years of
owning PowerBooks, I've probably only had half a dozen crashes tops.
The level of crashes you are experiencing is extremely unusual and
sounds like hardware problems to me.
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[Raymond Camden]

Yeah, I think I'm fighting it just because I don't want to believe it.
Plus, if both machines are sent back (my wife's MB is having drive
trouble), then it puts an end to any code I write at night.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions folks.

On 7/4/06, Sean Corfield <seancorfield@...> wrote:

> On 7/3/06, Raymond Camden <rcamden@...> wrote:
> > I'm using Mozzy, a ver nice, but PC only, free back up system. Can
> > anyone recommend such a service for the Mac?
>
> No idea what Mozzy is or does. I use SilverKeeper on my Mac.
>
> > So - it is a sad day. I've had crashes with my MBP since the day I got
> > it. Not a lot - but like 3-4 a week. I haven't lost anything yet...
>
> You should take it back to Apple. I've had just one crash with my MBP
> in a month and I consider that to be unusually high. In years of
> owning PowerBooks, I've probably only had half a dozen crashes tops.
> The level of crashes you are experiencing is extremely unusual and
> sounds like hardware problems to me.
> --
> Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/
> Got frameworks?
>
> "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive."
> -- Margaret Atwood
>
>

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[Kyle Hayes-3]

Insert Advice here --> Keep your Macs away from your Mini Cooper! It  
sounds like they may have caught something from it!
-Kyle
On Jul 4, 2006, at 5:02 AM, Raymond Camden wrote:

> Yeah, I think I'm fighting it just because I don't want to believe it.
> Plus, if both machines are sent back (my wife's MB is having drive
> trouble), then it puts an end to any code I write at night.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the suggestions folks.
>
> On 7/4/06, Sean Corfield <seancorfield@...> wrote:
>> On 7/3/06, Raymond Camden <rcamden@...> wrote:
>>> I'm using Mozzy, a ver nice, but PC only, free back up system. Can
>>> anyone recommend such a service for the Mac?
>>
>> No idea what Mozzy is or does. I use SilverKeeper on my Mac.
>>
>>> So - it is a sad day. I've had crashes with my MBP since the day  
>>> I got
>>> it. Not a lot - but like 3-4 a week. I haven't lost anything yet...
>>
>> You should take it back to Apple. I've had just one crash with my MBP
>> in a month and I consider that to be unusually high. In years of
>> owning PowerBooks, I've probably only had half a dozen crashes tops.
>> The level of crashes you are experiencing is extremely unusual and
>> sounds like hardware problems to me.
>> --
>> Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/
>> Got frameworks?
>>
>> "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive."
>> -- Margaret Atwood
>>
>>
>
>

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[Dean H. Saxe]

Some little things can cause this to happen.  My Powerbook had  
multiple crashes with no apparent cause.  Everything checked out  
fine, but I suspected it was a bad stick of RAM.  Put in a new stick  
and no more crashes.

-dhs

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On Jul 4, 2006, at 2:23 AM, Sean Corfield wrote:

> On 7/3/06, Raymond Camden <rcamden@...> wrote:
>> I'm using Mozzy, a ver nice, but PC only, free back up system. Can
>> anyone recommend such a service for the Mac?
>
> No idea what Mozzy is or does. I use SilverKeeper on my Mac.
>
>> So - it is a sad day. I've had crashes with my MBP since the day I  
>> got
>> it. Not a lot - but like 3-4 a week. I haven't lost anything yet...
>
> You should take it back to Apple. I've had just one crash with my MBP
> in a month and I consider that to be unusually high. In years of
> owning PowerBooks, I've probably only had half a dozen crashes tops.
> The level of crashes you are experiencing is extremely unusual and
> sounds like hardware problems to me.
> --
> Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/
> Got frameworks?
>
> "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive."
> -- Margaret Atwood
>
>

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[Dean H. Saxe]

For backups, I use Retrospect and back up everything to my G4  
sawtooth server.  I also back up important files like photos to DVD  
and put those in a safe deposit box at my bank.  If I lost 5+ years  
and 15+ GB of photos I'd have to kill myself... if my wife didn't do  
it first!

-dhs

Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH
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for little bits of gold.
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to there.
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On Jul 4, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Kyle Hayes wrote:

> Insert Advice here --> Keep your Macs away from your Mini Cooper! It
> sounds like they may have caught something from it!
> -Kyle
> On Jul 4, 2006, at 5:02 AM, Raymond Camden wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I think I'm fighting it just because I don't want to believe  
>> it.
>> Plus, if both machines are sent back (my wife's MB is having drive
>> trouble), then it puts an end to any code I write at night.
>>
>> Anyway, thanks for the suggestions folks.
>>
>> On 7/4/06, Sean Corfield <seancorfield@...> wrote:
>>> On 7/3/06, Raymond Camden <rcamden@...> wrote:
>>>> I'm using Mozzy, a ver nice, but PC only, free back up system. Can
>>>> anyone recommend such a service for the Mac?
>>>
>>> No idea what Mozzy is or does. I use SilverKeeper on my Mac.
>>>
>>>> So - it is a sad day. I've had crashes with my MBP since the day
>>>> I got
>>>> it. Not a lot - but like 3-4 a week. I haven't lost anything yet...
>>>
>>> You should take it back to Apple. I've had just one crash with my  
>>> MBP
>>> in a month and I consider that to be unusually high. In years of
>>> owning PowerBooks, I've probably only had half a dozen crashes tops.
>>> The level of crashes you are experiencing is extremely unusual and
>>> sounds like hardware problems to me.
>>> --
>>> Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/
>>> Got frameworks?
>>>
>>> "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive."
>>> -- Margaret Atwood
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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[Nathan Dintenfass]

FWIW, I use a Maxtor OneTouch drive.  I just plug it into the firewire
port every couple of nights before I go to bed and click the button on
the enclosure -- it backs up my entire drive while I sleep.  Nothing
fancy, and obviously no benefit of over-the-network convenience/safety,
but it's simple and reliable.  I had a HDD failure on my last machine,
and this method saved me much heartache.

I agree with Sean about your crashes -- totally unacceptable and very
out of the ordinary.





Raymond Camden wrote:

> I'm using Mozzy, a ver nice, but PC only, free back up system. Can
> anyone recommend such a service for the Mac?
>
> So - it is a sad day. I've had crashes with my MBP since the day I got
> it. Not a lot - but like 3-4 a week. I haven't lost anything yet...
>
> My wife's MB crashed today. That means both Macs are dead or maybe on
> the way to death. I hope this is just random bad luck and not a sign
> of things to come. I know I love OSX, as does my wife.
>
>

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