Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Oct 2005 17:23 UTC, submitted by DigitalDame
"Apple has updated its .Mac suite of online tools, giving subscribers more for their $99.95 yearly fee. They'll now get more storage (1GB, up from 250MB), a new service called Groups for creating instant online shared spaces, and a simplified backup tool. .Mac has always been good, but Apple has never committed the resources to make it great. More storage and top-notch backup and antivirus tools would seem essential. The suite no longer offers an antivirus utility either."
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As a side note, can anyone recommend a tool similar to Backup 3 that allows to backup to remote hosts and has a pleasant UI?
I think Backup 3 (being the first backup application I try) is awesome, but it still has (for me) two drawbacks wether or not you are a .mac user:
- Regarding backing up to remote host, it has no support for webdav, ftp or ftp servers. Just iDisk (no thanks). "Network volumes" seem to be an option, but I do not know what kind of servers (besides any of those three that I mentioned that are not supported) it allows.
- It does not allow incremental backup to CD (wether or not this is considered as a sane backup option, I'd like to have it).
So, anyone knows of a nice alternative?