[Hoggy]

Hi there,

I've been looking for some backup software for a while. To be honest, I didn't think it would be this difficult but I'm struggling to find something that will do what I want. Can anyone recommend something that will do the job?

Here is what I am trying to do:

I have a Powerbook G4 1.67GHz, which has a 100Gb internal HD. I have a 100Gb partition set aside on an external FireWire drive. The plan is to maintain a complete clone of the internal HD on this drive. What I'd like the software to do is copy the whole drive across the first time I run it, and from then on just run some sort of "sync" routine, so that files I have updated on the internal HD get updated on the backup.

The theory behind it is that I'll have a backup I can swap straight onto if the internal HD crashes or the laptop is stolen.


So far I've tried Synchronize, which appeared to choke on the number of files (over 500,000 - which surprised me). I use Synchronise to keep track of a couple of project folders and it does that very well, but it doesn't seem up to dealing with the larger backup task.

I also tried SuperDuper. It crashed and didn't complete the first backup, so I didn't get the chance to try it out properly. I'm reluctant to waste another couple of hours trying it again, unless anyone can persuade me otherwise.

I have used CarbonCopyCloner in the past, and it certainly does a good job of backing up a drive, but I'm not sure about keeping the backups synchronised.

Does anyone have any suggestions of something that will be up to the task?