Restrospect

Hey Everyone, Curious to know what, if any, folks in the Macosx.com world use to schedule backups that is non-Retrospect/Dantz? I'd heard that the scheduling function of Carbon Copy Cloner / RSyncX is actually broken under 10.4 and who knows when Mike will release CCC 3.0 For years I've used (and still use) a great little preference pane called Deja Vu that came free...

Retrospect seems to tightly tie the clients name to its ip address -- and it does not seem to have a way to change it. I have a client that use to be a 1.2.3.4. now its at 1.2.3.5. Various operations lead to different forms of confusion. For example, Configure->Clients finds the client. I pick it and hit Configure. It pauses and then opens the window. Now if I hit...

Every time I connect the drive and attempt to run retrospect via the button on the front of the drive the computer hangs. ...

I spoke with WD and they told me that the WD NetCenter drive could not be reformatted. Is there a way to backup my data on this drive. It seems silly that Retrospect would set up the application taht way. Wasnt Retospect stictly Mac at one time? ...

I recently restored my whole PowerBook G4 hard disk from a Retrospect 6 backup. ...

That is from a 22 GB backup file that was originally backed up to a USB external drive with Retrospect Express on 10.1. Currently trying to restore with Express and Retrospect 6 on 10,4. ...

I don't have Backup, but Jim Dalrymple gave it a nice review: Click Here My only concern is that it is intertwined with a .Mac account, something that might not be forever. I've used Retrospect since dirt, and it is certainly the gold standard for my environment -- backing up three computers with 6 HD volumes at one fell swonk over the home ethernetlet, but it...

Since I'm a .Mac member I've got Backup installed but someone recommended Retrospect Desktop instead. How do the two compare? ...

OS9 recognizes the 250gb firwire drives ok, but retrospect hangs when the backup starts. It says the the disk is busy. ...

I purchased an 80 gig model, and am very happy with it ... plan to use it for video work and PLANNED to use it for backups with Retrospect, but it seems Dantz does not support SmartDisk, which seems strange. Any input. ALSO, if this is the case, does anyone have any guidance for me about backing up? I guess I could backup to a DVD ...