Backup 2.0.1 provides added quality and reliability improvements to scheduled backups and is now available through Software Update in System Preferences and as a download from .Mac.
All I can say is: I sure hope so! This is an error message I keep getting, every day now. It tells me that backup is running! Yea, at 5 AM I am running Backup manually. Hmmmm, I don't think so. I just love manually backing up stuff.
Ken Edwards is the Gaming Editor at Blogcritics, and calls Breaking Windows home. Ken works part time for Student Publications at BGSU as the Webmaster and System Administrator. He is also a freelance web developer.
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1 - BB
Your post reminds me of the bad old days staying up all night trying to do a backup only to have it hiccup at the end and you have to start all over again.
Ken save yourself some money and get a cheap PC clone with Windows XP on board. XP is stable and has a built in backup called "Automated System Recovery" (no I'm not talking about system restore). It's worth the price of admission alone. All you need is a second hard drive the same size (or partition) and it will make a 40 gig mirror backup in about 40 minutes. It's amazing and more importantly - it works!
In addition I use Powerquest Datakeeper that sits in my system tray and automatically makes backups of changed files. It's like having a Scussi backup device for a fraction of the cost. Put the two together and your bases are covered.
2 - Ken Edwards
I use Retrospect to backup both my Mac & my PC over my home network.
But that is not the point here.
Backup is a part of the .Mac membership that works very well, version 2 even lets you backup to things other then .Mac.
And Backup should not give stupid errors like this.
I have never heard of the software you suggest, but I have used Retrospect for over 5 yrs. so I am very comfortable using it.