Comments on: Backing up the Leopard?

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:43:09 +0000

For the past week I’ve been going through all the articles on the web about this topic (TM vs. FV) since I am finally setting this up on my desktop macpro. I was robbed this week and the thieves took my macpro (they took my powerbook too of course). The problem is that I never thought someone would break into my house and steal my 50 pound macpro tower – but it is worth a lot of money so I guess if they’re taking the TV, why not take this. Now all the articles out there keep mentioning laptops as the rationale for wanting to use FileVault and not for desktop users – this is just naivety as I was thinking it could never happen to me. It’s slightly more difficult for someone to steal your desktop mac, but they will do it! And if your hard drive(s) are unencrypted, they
will have all your personal data whether they want it or not. Just fair warning to people reading these articles and thinking they are safe cause they don’t have a laptop. FileVault isn’t the only way, but protect your data – you can always replace a computer but your data is another story.

By: Raam Dev

Raam Dev — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:14:11 +0000

Hi,

I currently use RsyncX 2.1 to backup my MacBook Pro, which is running Tiger (10.4.11). I’m considering (and dreading) upgrading to Leopard, but I want to make sure that I won’t have any problems using RsyncX on Leopard.

Have you discovered any differences with using RsyncX on Leopard, and which version of RsyncX are you using on Leopard?

Thanks and great post!

By: Barry Hess

Barry Hess — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:46:06 +0000

I'm on the SuperDuper! bandwagon myself. Saved my butt!

By: lucidsystems

lucidsystems — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:24:00 +0000

Have you looked at LBackup which supports the backup of FileVault data to multiple encrypted disk images?

By: ola

ola — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:59:07 +0000

Yup, that article describes the same method I have been using since I started using FileVault a year ago.

Look under “My current backup scheme that allows for this consists of two parts:” above

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:44:40 +0000

According to this article, you can make live backups of FileVault while logged in.

http://macosx.com/article/live-filevaultsparse-bundle-backups-in-leopard.html

By: ola

ola — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:59:11 +0000

Hey Hugo

Yeah, the fragmented structure of the sparsebundle should allow for incremental backups. But it really is a shame that they are not able to do the backups while the user is logged in, and that you loose the brilliant visual interface :/

Let’s hope for it to happen in 10.5.5 or something?

By: Hugo Ferreira

Hugo Ferreira — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:50:52 +0000

Even though you loose the “visual fireworks” and the ability to restore individual fiels using Time Machine, it seems that it does incremental backups of your File Vault images, albeit when you log out:

“(…) the new FV format allows TM to just backup the changed files!!!!! in your sparseimage!!!! Very fast, much less space!!!!”
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5659855#5659855