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J&P Group | J&P InfoSol | Applications | Backup / Sync / Recover
This section focuses on tools for more local backup and sync, in comparison to Internet-based services.
See also separate area for more general information on backups, archiving, sharing, sync that include Internet-based services.
Research resources:
Winclone - 2.2 Clone your Boot Camp partition from your Mac. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33266
| Destination | ||||||
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| Application | License | Local | Online | Bck | Sync | More |
| MozyHome - 1.4.3.3 | no? | Yes | Yes | "Back up your data at a secure, remote location." |
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| Sync!Sync!Sync! - 3.9.3 | Shareware | Yes | ? | Yes | No | "Simple and fast backup software." |
(Section added 2010-10-06)
Finding duplicates can save lots of disk space but can also be a quite time consuming activity.
| Appplication | Developer | Cost | vers. | Ratings | General Notes | ||
| (Doublet Scan | see Tidy Up! below | - | - | - | - Doublet Scan is an older software, for Mac OS 9 and prior) | ||
| Duplicate-Files-Searcher | duplicatefilessearcher.net | Free | 2.2 | 3/5 (CNET) | Java-based; unfriendly user interface; very slow; CAN'T RECOMMEND (2010-09-12) | ||
| Duplicate Files Finder | doubles.sourceforge.net | FOSS | - | - | Open source; no pre-build for Mac; sourceforge.net/projects/doubles/.(2010-09-12) | ||
| Find Duplicate Files | araxis.com | $15 | 2010.210 | ? | extremely slow (hours for 235 GB drive) - progress of each file was clearly visible, could read file name as progressed. Stopped parsing - CAN'T RECOMMEND (2010-09-12) - macamour.com/blog/2009/05/27/find-duplicate-files-for-mac-os-x-... - Apple |
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| GrupaDupa | $0.99 | (2010-09-12) | |||||
| Sponge |
- apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/sponge.html |
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| Tidy Up! | hyperbolicsoftware.com | $30 | 2.2.5 | 3.5/5 ed. 5/5 user (CNET) |
http://www.duplicatefilesoftware.com/ (2010-09-12) |
http://download.cnet.com/Duplicate-Files-Searcher/3000-2248_4-178698.html
http://www.wordpower-software.com/WordPower/grupadupa.html
http://download.cnet.com/GrupaDupa/3010-2248_4-11157517.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=grupadupa+reviews
http://www.macupdate.com/reviews.php?id=31733
http://download.cnet.com/GrupaDupa/3000-2248_4-10922190.html?tag=vtredir
Tidy Up!
(Personal information management synchronization of (PDAs, smart phones, etc) in separate area.)
| Analyzing | Reporting | Save Cfg In File |
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| Appplication | Developer | Cost | Ver | D&D |
Preview | Speed | Exclude Files |
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| Free | No | No | ||||||||
| ChronoSync | econtechnologies | $40 | 4.1 | Yes | Yes | Really fast | Yes | Yes | fast, | |
| Sync!Sync!Sync! | $15 | 4.3.1 | Yes | No! | No | |||||
| (Synk 5 | decimus | $$ | 5.2.4 | Yes | Yes (.snkd) |
replaced by Synk 6 gen.) | ||||
| (Synk 6, Synk Basic | decimus | $24 | - | Yes | - | - | - | - | no synk feature) | |
| Synk 6, Synk Standard | decimus | $35 | 6.5.5 | Yes | Yes | Fast | Yes | No(?) | Weird - 6 doesn't seem to save config in own file when 5 does... | |
| Synk 6, Synk Professional | decimus | $45 | 6.5.5 | Yes | Yes | Fast | Yes | No(?) | -"- |
Synk Backup - $25
Synk Standard - $35
Synk Professional - $45
($40)
(Comparing two files. http://download.cnet.com/DiffMerge/3000-2212_4-10710243.html)
2009-09-08: Looked fairly promising but got problem with just downloaded and tested latest version. Get an error msg that the drive is full or protected. Not the case, as far as I can see. (Mac OS X 10.6 related issue?)
(part of the comparison table by decimus)
Synchronize! X Plus is intended for synchronizing and backing up personal data on Mac OS X. Synchronize! Pro X is for backing up the entire Mac OS X system as well as all users' data, so that the backup is bootable. Synchronize! Pro X has a number of additional features, including the ability to preserve old files in an archive, to protect against accidental deletion. Here is a feature comparison.
Synk Professional 6.5.1
"About Synk Professional A synk product designed for expert users, with all of the bells and whistles. All versions of Synk 6 feature ZeroScan, the revolutionary new technology that makes updating your backups blazingly fast."
HELIOS mkisofs - 2.01.01a22helios0.14 UDF disk image backup utility
The free public domain disk image utility "mkisofs" received major enhancements by HELIOS Software engineers, to enable flexible disk image creation for archiving and backup tasks going way beyond DVD image creation. HELIOS added support to archive hundreds of thousands of files/folders into disk images without any size limitations.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32561
Utility for online backup service.
Dropbox 0.6.557 for Mac
http://download.cnet.com/Dropbox/3000-18511_4-10905555.html
######## STARTED THIS SECTION by copying diskutilities; rest of from this for more possible reuse:
| Want To | Application(s) |
Comments |
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| Good Overview of Large Files |
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WhatSize has most flexibility |
| See/Find What Changes Over Time |
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| Find Duplicates |
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| 1 I.e. among the applications listed here. | ||
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/
| Application | price from |
Version/Release Info | Comments | ||
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Ver. |
Date* |
Size |
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| Baseline | $20.00 | v1.4.2 | 20081124 (mod) | 8.6MB | More info: mildmanneredindustries.com/baseline. MW review v1.4.2 Dec 08, rating 4/5 |
| GrandPerspective | Free | v1.0 | 20081222 (mod) | 1.3MB | open-source; only a visual graphical representation and one that neither is that easy to interpret nor that useful (as far as seen/understood so far) – Not that useful (MW rating: 4/5, v0.93 - MacWorld's Byte breakdown Apr'06.) |
| OmniDiskSweeper | Free(1) |
v1.7 | 20090224 (mod) | 6.3MB | (1) Free since v1.7 Feb 2009 (was $15 prior) + Decent util (considering it's now Free) to get a good overview of large folders and files. – No means to sort other than default (decending order size of folders/files). More info: omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper. (MW rating: 3.5/5, v1.5 - MacWorld's Byte breakdown Apr'06; NOTE: This rating was for the for-pay version.) |
| WhatSize | $12.99 | v(10.)4.5.1 | 20090317 (mod) | 6.4MB | More info: id-design.com/software/whatsize. (MW rating: 4/5, v10.3.9 (current per Apr09 is v(10.)4.5.1) - MacWorld's Byte breakdown Apr'06.) |
The Top Five Mac Hard Drive, Diagnostic, and Repair Utilities, Feb 23, 2007 - http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=693649
Hyperbolic Software Tidy Up! ($39) http://www.hyperbolicsoftware.com/TidyUp.html
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/tidyup.html
Comparing 1Password - being evaluated - to Web Confidential - used for many years.
Mac OS X Finder |
Baseline | OmdiDiskSweeper | WhatSize | Comments | |
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| Product Info | Apple | baseline | omnidisksweeper | whatsize | |
| Developer | Apple | mildmanneredindustries | omnigroup | id-design.com | |
| Pricing | incl in OS | $20 |
Free |
$12.99 |
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| General comments | ### | Rather simple tool, only lists size (but still better than Finder (10.5)), no Find Duplicates, ... |
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| R&D | |||||
| Version | 10.5.8 | 1.4.2 | 1.7 | 10.4.5.1 (i) | (i) = as per About information inside application (m) = Modified time stamp as per Info (Command-I) for installed application. |
| Released | ~2009 (10.5.8) |
2009-11-24 (m) | 2009-02-24 (m) | 2009-03-17 (m) | |
| since today | ~5 months ago | ~ 2 months ago | ~ 1 month ago | (This review per Fri 2009-04-17) | |
| R&D | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| Application size | ? | 8.6 MB | 6.3 MB | 6.4 MB | |
| General Use | |||||
| Primarily how using | From within browser. (Application isn't even visible in list of open applications. Nice!) |
Application itself. | 1P: adds a button - and toolbar - in web browsers and this is how accessing most commonly used features. WC: from the application itself, limited integration with web browsers. |
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| Starting | 3 sec* | 10 sec* | 1Password starts significantly faster. *) Times only to be seen relatively; on a specific Mac (Mini), with lots of applications running. |
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Baseline | OmdiDiskSweeper | WhatSize | Comments | |
| # Views | 4 | 4 |
1 | 5 |
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| names | 1:As Icons (Cmd-1) 2:As List (Cmd-2) 3:As Columns (Cmd-3) 4:As Cover Flow (Cmd-4) |
1:List View (Cmd-1) 2:Columns View (Cmd-2) 3:Tree Map (Cmd-3) 4:Duplicates (Cmd-4) |
n/a | 1:Browser View (Cmd-1) 2:Outline View (Cmd-2) 3:Table View (Cmd-3) 4:BarChart View (Cmd-4) 5:PieChart View (Cmd-5) |
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| List View, Outline View | Yes (Cmd-2) | Yes (Cmd-1) |
No | Yes (Cmd-2) | |
| Table View | No | No | No | Yes (Cmd-3) (1) | (1) Including pre-defined searches |
| Columns View | Yes (Cmd-3) | Yes (Cmd-2) | Yes | Yes (Cmd-1) | |
| Cover Flow View | Yes (Cmd-4) | No | No | No | |
| Tree Map | No | Yes (Cmd-3) (1) | No | No | (1) Similar to GrandPerspective's (not in this table) view. |
| BarChart View | No | No | No | Yes (Cmd-4) | |
| PieChart View | No | No | No | Yes (Cmd-5) | |
| Duplicates View | No | Yes (Cmd-4) | No | No | |
Find duplicates |
No | Yes (but quite slow) |
No | No | |
| Total space occupied by duplicates | n/a | No | n/a | n/a | |
| Delocalization | No | No | No | Yes (Cmd-6) | |
Baselines, save state to see changes over time |
No | Yes | No | No | Can be quite useful when trying to find out what's eating space over time (like memory leaking applications) |
