iSauvegardes for Mac

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• clean interface, fairly limited, but open source

  sporobolusMarch 29, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />this basically gives a convenient access to putting ditto commands into the user crontab; the interface is very clean, good example of how to build a simple tool with AppleScript Studio; it's a good foundation on which to build a more sophisticated tool in practice, i found some limitations-- the tool makes the crontab entry immediately, but doesn't save backup settings until the application is quit; the only logging is the cron entries in the system log, which don't report success or failure, just that cron fired; there's just one schedule for all backups -- it seems like it would be useful to specify different schedules for each backup (or each group of backups) i also noticed the crontab entry makes a reference by full path to a shell script inside the application package; unfortunately, this means if the app package is moved, this reference will break; i think this script should probably be installed in /usr/local; after deleting all backup specs, the crontab entry remained and the backup script would still be called, simply without any folders to back up since it's based on the user crontab, it can only back up from &amp; to areas where the user has access; an RsyncX option would add flexibility and would only backup files that had changed (though it couldn't compress the backups) i would recommend it for people who want a very simple backup tool, or to those who would like to tinker with the source

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