Selkowitz Technology | Seattle's small business network and telecom consultant » Q and A http://selkowitz.org The Life and Times of Seattle's Only Small Business Systems Consultant. Articles and advice on small business phone systems, phone and internet services, VoIP, and all things technology related. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:15:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en Q. What is the most reliable and/or easiest to maintain and/or cheapest way to backup the client data on my Mac? http://selkowitz.org/q-what-is-the-most-reliable-andor-easiest-to-maintain-andor-cheapest-way-to-backup-the-client-data-on-my-mac/ http://selkowitz.org/q-what-is-the-most-reliable-andor-easiest-to-maintain-andor-cheapest-way-to-backup-the-client-data-on-my-mac/#comments Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:56:44 +0000 Kevin Selkowitz http://selkowitz.org/2006/10/20/q-what-is-the-most-reliable-andor-easiest-to-maintain-andor-cheapest-way-to-backup-the-client-data-on-my-mac/ A. Backups are a tough question no matter the platform. You have to evaluate how much changes each day, how much total storage is needed, how much user interaction you want, how fast a recovery you need, cost, and many other factors.

If you have .Mac service the Backup application that comes with it is great and can do online, CD/DVD and external drive backups.

iBackup (free) is an excellent backup program suitable for backing up to external hard drives.
http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/

Apple’s Leopard (10.5  - coming in the spring) has an integrated backup called Time Machine, which is an automated backup to external hard drive. It has without a doubt the most intuitive interface I’ve ever seen and generally a seemingly good backup strategy.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html

Lastly Mirra is a backup appliance which can automatically backup your files on multiple machines over the network. It can also sync files between machines.
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]]> http://selkowitz.org/q-what-is-the-most-reliable-andor-easiest-to-maintain-andor-cheapest-way-to-backup-the-client-data-on-my-mac/feed/ Q. How do I burn a CD on a mac so that it can be viewed on a PC? http://selkowitz.org/q-how-do-i-burn-a-cd-on-a-mac-so-that-it-can-be-viewed-on-a-pc/ http://selkowitz.org/q-how-do-i-burn-a-cd-on-a-mac-so-that-it-can-be-viewed-on-a-pc/#comments Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:52:44 +0000 Kevin Selkowitz http://selkowitz.org/2006/10/19/q-how-do-i-burn-a-cd-on-a-mac-so-that-it-can-be-viewed-on-a-pc/ A. To be honest this comes as a surprise this doesn’t work with Apple’s built in burning - but I never use it to test that out! You need to burn what’s called a Hybrid CD which has both a Mac and PC filesystem (Macs can read PC filesystems, but not vice versa). Burn does a great job of burning a variety of types of disks and is free/OSS.
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/

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