edwin_l_king@dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu (03/22/90)
My company has a 600mb hard drive and a 600mb erasable optical disk. The hard disk (attached to a MacIIcx) is used as a server for our Mac network, and the erasable optical (on the same Mac) backs up the hard drive, provides storage for our graphics library, and emergency redundancy should the hard drive go down. What I'd REALLY like to find is an application that can automatically backup files from the hard disk to the optical automatically at preset times of the day, and be able to not only do whole drive backups, but backup individual files folders and partitions, so that folders of particularly sensitive and timely information (we're a newspaper) could be backed up several times a day, while less sensitive stuff could be backed up daily. The program should operate in the background so users can continue to access the drive while it is running. I already happen to have a program that does a good job at the backing up part of it (lots of apps can handle that), but unfortunately it has to be manually invoked, and I have better things to do with my time. This type of thing is available as a matter of course on Unix systems via crontab, surely someone must have come up with the idea for macs. Thanks, elk (please respond to elk@cis.ohio-state.edu as this group gets too much traffic for me to be able to wade through it consistently)