back up options

[Elf_Boy]

I have my new time capsule:

I found my mac mini OS 10.4 doesnt have or use time machine. I'm not finding any built in back up functionality.

My Vista box can see the drive on the time capsule in the network, I can write and read files to it. The Vista back up utility refuses to use it though.

Any sugestions for free or very inexpensive back up utilities for mac OS and Vista? Or how to get vista to use a network address, it wont even let me see the drive in my mac mini as available with file sharing otherwise working fine.

 

[The Hunter]

For Mac, check out Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. They both work on the same basic principal - a complete image of your system, that's designed to be 100% bootable. I.E. if you image it to a USB or firewire external drive, you can plug it in and boot off it and you shouldn't notice any difference between it and your normal system. You can of course also use them to backup to a network drive, but you lose the snazzy bootable features. CCC is free donation-ware (no nag screens or limitations), and SuperDuper has free basic functionality, but you need to pay $20 or so (IIRC) to get the premium features, like incremental backup and automation.

The other option for Macs if you don't mind the command line and getting your hands dirty is using rsync. You need to dig around Google to find the correct options to get it working well with some of the Mac filesystem options, but it's built in to the OS and probably the most configurable option.

I'll let others who are better acquainted with Vista help you out with that.

 

[Elf_Boy]

Any windows sugestions?