29 April 2006

Mac Backup Software Harmful

Paradoxically, copying a file and being sure that all information has been copied is not easy under Mac OS X. I analyzed a variety of file copying engines, most of them command-line tools, and demonstrated how they fare in preserving file metadata.

Source: Mac Backup Software Harmful

This is quite interesting as I've never felt the need to move from Carbon Copy Cloner to something else, as I've successfully managed upgrades using it from Jaguar to Panther & Panther to Tiger.

1 Comments:

At 20/6/09 3:18 am, Blogger Backup Right said...

This is actually quite interesting indeed. There are disaster recovery systems that work well even with MAC OS.

 

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