help need on building .mac backup alternative

[J5]

Hey all -
I've decided to start work on an alternative backup app, to compete with Apple's latest .mac offerings. To avoid duplication - here's the link to my other thread:

http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthr...threadid=22079

The app will be open-source and free. I just need a little help from some programmers with a little more Cocoa/mac programming experience than I have. Check the other thread for more info. If anyone is interested in helping out, drop me an email.

jrobinso@nycap.rr.com

j5

[J5]

I've just submitted the project on SourceForge.net for approval, under the name "opendotmac". I'll post again when the project is accepted, or if for any reason rejected.

j5

[strobe]

I humbly suggest an HFS+ compatible version of rsync

[DavidBaker]

Hi,
I just finished up an application called PsyncX which sounds remarkably like the application you are talking about. You can download it from my website http://sourceforge.net/projects/psyncx

Do you think we should just use this app?

David

[J5]

Hey David -
Looks like it's a great start! I'm downloading it now... I'll post again once I've checked it out. Some of the features I'm looking for are:

1. backup only files that are new or changed since the last backup

2. backup locations of files, so a restore is easy.

3. Be able to "roll-back" to a previous system... ie I install the latest version of Office, and it causes problems. I can simply roll back my system to before I installed.

That's a partial list - I can send you the full list so far if you want. Email me if you want to see it.

J5

[strobe]

I'm not going to use that program until it copies ALL the HFS+ data. That means not only both forks but all attributes. It'll probably be easier to do this via Carbon.

[DavidBaker]

It does! Have you tried it? It works fine on my computer and saves the resource fork of Adobe Photoshop files easily.

Give it a try before you run it down! :-)

David

[Captain Code]

How hard would it be to add the ability to burn to a CD?

I assume that Apple probably provides APIs to the CD burning capabilities built into OS X?