Paul R Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 A friend lost the drive in his Mac Mini last week, which Apple replaced for him. He had all his music files backed up in TimeMachine and on a separate disk, so recovery was not difficult. I was going to send him the rsynch command to setup a cron job to backup his music files to a third disk every day, but at least on my copy of Mavericks, it doesn't seem to be installed. Does anyone know if it is supposed to be there, and if not, what would you recommend for my friend to use for this purpose? I used to recommend LaCies SliverKeeper, but that isn't supported any longer. Free would be very nice. Paul Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat DAC. Robert A. Heinlein Link to comment
Musicophile Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 I'm happy with CarbonCopyCloner. Check out my blog at musicophilesblog.com - From Keith Jarrett to Johannes Brahms Link to comment
PewterTA Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Look up Syncovery. I think it's the best and most "advanced" copy program that will allow you to do anything. Yet it is EXTREMELY simple to use. Once you set it up you can run it automated so you never have to worry about things. Works great! Link to comment
Nes Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 My Mavericks does have rsync though? (that is if you really meant to say "rsync" instead of "rsynch"): $ rsync rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 Merging NADAC / Theta Compli --> Spectral DMC-20 --> Spectral DMA-250 --> Avalon Ascendant (with tweeter upgrades) Link to comment
wgscott Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 /usr/bin/rsync comes with it for free. If you want a very pleasant to use GUI front end (which I use all the time, despite being a unix command-line geek), I recommend Forklift: The most advanced file manager and FTP + SFTP + Amazon S3 + WEBDav client for Mac OS X. Link to comment
Paul R Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 Oh- I *am* an idiot. (*sigh*) There are days when I despair of aging... Thanks! I will look at forklift and send my friend some info later this evening. -Paul /usr/bin/rsync comes with it for free. If you want a very pleasant to use GUI front end (which I use all the time, despite being a unix command-line geek), I recommend Forklift: The most advanced file manager and FTP + SFTP + Amazon S3 + WEBDav client for Mac OS X. Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat DAC. Robert A. Heinlein Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 I was going to also suggest Forklift, which wgscott on a rare good day, suggested for me as well but I see he beat me to it. No electron left behind. Link to comment
AudioDoctor Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 [ATTACH=CONFIG]10377[/ATTACH] Oh come on, admit it, I am right. also, I need to work on proofreading... No electron left behind. Link to comment
Bloodwound Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Forklift is pretty much overkill. In the past, my favorite has always been Backuplist+ , which is a great frontendfor rsync. It pretty lean, and freeware. Yay! Link to comment
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