In what's become a yearly release, I have officially released the fifth edition of the Apple Enterprise Backup Solutions paper. If you are unfamiliar with the document, it is a free paper that will help you find the right backup solution for your environment, outlining various backup techniques, software solutions and data consolidation solutions. This document has been referenced in numerous webcasts and online publications.
It's the number one question on everyone's mind...
"I have a great new Xserve and Xserve RAID or Promise RAID, but how am I going to get all of this important data off-site, so I can rest easier at night?"
"What am I going to do if a disaster hits?"
"The word that comes to mind, when I try to describe my disaster recovery plan is simply disaster!"
Have no fear! We have a round up of the best backup solutions for Mac OS X that you may have never heard of! Best of all, they're all cross platform, so everyone's invited to play.
Before looking ahead to what's coming, it's important first to look back. And that means a quick refresher course on Retrospect, a mainstay of the Apple community since Mac OS 7 was hosting e-mail, files and FileMaker databases. The venerable app had solid features and drivers for a fairly large subset of tape libraries. Unfortunately, it peaked in the late 1990s around Version 4.3, long before the introduction of Mac OS X in 2001. Since then, it's been in a steady decline.
The natural complement to Apple's enterprise server and storage solutions
It provides high performance, scalable and reliable data protection. IT managers can administer and monitor their data protection environment from one single location using Time Navigator's native MAC GUI and dedicated dashboard widget.
This document be able to serve as a guide for programmers needing something of an entré into the source code but the primary purpose is to give the reader a foundation from which he may understand why rsync behaves as it does, the limitations of rsync and why a requested feature is unsuited to the code-base.