BackityMac: Smart, one-click backups
Because backing things up is tedious and repetitive, it’s easy to convince yourself that they are not so very important.
Still, it’s hard to imagine a bigger hit to your productivity than losing all your emails, Address Book and iCal data without having a good backup. (If needed, supplement your imagination with this horror story and this one 
.)
BackityMac is a new utility that makes backing up all your essential data a simple matter of a few clicks. It offers “pre-sets” for Mail.app data, iCal, Address Book and more:
Check the boxes you want, click “backup”. Instead of browsing around for the things that constitute a good backup of Mail (for example), the app does the hard work for you, and delivers it all freshly pressed into a new disk image.
In the event of a disaster, it also offers the option of restoring your data from one of these disk images, again a process of a few mouse clicks. Clever!
As a bonus, a second pane lists some maintenance tasks (and helpful notes on what each one is) that BackityMac can perform:
BackityMac is donation-ware and is available from the developer’s web site .
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April 2nd, 2006 at 11:29 pm
HELP.
I started backing up, decided against doing it now, and quit BackityMac. It still continued building a DMG for me even though it had quit!
How on earth can I make it stop? I can’t trash the file or unmount the harddrive I was backing up onto.
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:40 pm
This continues to happen even if you try to force quit the app in the Activity Monitor utilty?
April 3rd, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Why people continue to call it a backup without any regards to restore is beyond me. Perhaps it should be called “backup” and “undo”?
A backup you cannot restore as easily as backing up is not a backup, it’s redundancy. And that’s not a backup.
Backup should only be thought of in terms of restore.
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