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[The Take Out Bandit]

Oi, Phoenix or some of you other guys.

Is there any sort of OSX application you could suggest for backing up Data to DVD/CD? What I'm mainly interested in doing, and I can do it manually; but process automation is always a nice bonus - is simply backing up:

- Bookmarks
- Text Files
- Documents and Databases
- Address Book & Calendar

That sort of thing.

I've been doing some reading, and haven't been able to find one solution anybody agrees upon. I'm also getting mixed messages about Apple's Backup application. On one hand I read it's free to use sans a .Mac account, which I don't want; but then I'm hearing you need a .Mac account to use it.

Psync sounds too much like rocket science for my liking.

I'm not at all interested in a "hit the ground running" back-up. I just want do archive precious data and if need be - I can reinstally my operating system and applications manually.

 

[Macam]

I'm only aware of Backup, although I tend to my backups manually at the moment given my previous frustrations with Backup. However, your question made me redownload it, and yes you need a .Mac account....to access it. However, there doesn't appear to be any functionality missing from it barring that as I imagine if you don't have a .Mac account set up in your .Mac System Preferences pane then when the program starts, you won't be able to back up to your iDisk, but that's just speculation on my part. It doesn't appear in Automator, but it does allow you to schedule backups to your iDisk, CD/DVD, or External Disk and so on. For what it is, it works, but it's not up to par with Apple's other apps in my experience, but I haven't played with it on Tiger yet.

 

[Lhadatt]

Retrospect from Dantz. http://www.dantz.com/en/products/mac_personal/index.dtml

 

[cybamerc]

Retrospect

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

Thanks, looking into it.

Here's some info on how to use Backup sans a .Mac account.

 

[Burger]

Another vote for Retrospect.

Took me a while to get my head around it (never been into backups). But yeah, works great.