| Herbert Kanner 2007-09-04, 7:14 am |
| I have used Retrospect for years. I was introduced to it when I worked
for Apple, and backed up by desktop to a DAT tape. Eventually, I started
using it at home, first backup up to ZIP disks, then to CD's, and
ultimately, when I got a G5 Mac, to DVDs. When I replaced my G5 by an
Intel Mac, my backups started going wild. About 7 Gigabytes would get
added to the DVDs in one week. I finally got disgusted with this, and
bought a backup hard disk and got a product called PsysyncX which
produces a bootable clone. Like Retrospect, it has the ability of doing
an incremental backup, that is, only adding new files and replacing ones
that have had a new modification date. Well, Retrospect Express was
bundled with this disk drive, so I tried at first to partition the disk
in two, using one partition for PsyyncX and the other for Retrospect
Express. In one week, Retrospect Express added 7 Gigabytes (again),
while the actual addition done by PsysyncX was 300 Megabytes.
Is there some reason why Retrospect thinks, only on Intel Macs, that a
great many unmodified files have been modified?
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