![]() Rating 4 1/2 stars (out of 5) highly recommended.Here are some features that I like:* The user interface is simple and intuitive well-designed. ![]() I've tried out ChronoSync for a week or 2 now - I found it very easy to understand, set up and use, but also very powerful. I don't like my backups residing in files with proprietary formats or where I need separate software to access the information - I just want to go to the alternate storage location and browse through the files.So, after all that long-winded explanation - does anyone have any good suggestions?Thanks for reading and offering your 51 Setting up the profiles took about 15 minutes with a beautifully simple and intuitive user interface after that, I could entirely ignore the process and reliably have the backups done.But the main point is that I wanted to have copies of important files stored in a variety of places, that I could access directly if need be. Those specifications included:* What location to copy from - any specified folder, with or without sub-folders.* What files to copy - all files and folders, or only selected files and folders (with specifications either for inclusions and/or exclusion).* What location to copy to - any destination folder accessible from your computer - internal hard drive, external hard drive, network drive, etc.* When to copy - manual, at startup, at shut down, every few minutes, hours, or days (interval specified), once a day (time specified certain days could be excluded), whenever files change.* How to copy - simple copy, exact copy, move, compress, synchronize.* How to archive deleted files - where to store, how many versions to store.* Advanced options - ignore files older than or younger than a certain date/time, plus a variety of secondary checks whether or not and how to compress when backing up run some other program before or after the backup operation.I set up a variety of profiles to back up certain types of files to several different locations (i.e., frequent backup of important files to an external drive every several hours during the working day backup of all changed files to an external drive once a day, and backup of selected personal files to my home computer ). It was again too simple.Here's what Second Copy could do, that I found really useful - you could set up a number of "profiles", each containing a set of specifications for a certain type of backup or copy activity. ![]() Hello everyone,I'm looking for a good backup utility that operates in a similar manner to Second Copy (one of the best backup utilities for Windows, in my opinion and yes, I already checked - they don't make it for the Mac).My backup strategy consists of using a program that will efficiently copy selected files and folders to specified locations on a variety of media at pre-determined times, and I'd like that done automatically and in a variety of ways, depending on where I'm working and time of day.First, let me say that I've tried:* SuperDuper, which works fine if what you want is a backup of your entire disk (but that's not really what I'm looking for).* MacBackup - sort of fits my needs, but it hung up the first time I tried to use it (don't have any patience for such behaviour, after years of suffering as a Windows user).* The backup utility that came with my WD external hard drive (a "My Book").
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