September 2009
Intermediate to advanced
196 pages
5h 43m
English
Why should you bother with expensive backup applications when you can create your own custom backup program from scratch, for free, using Unix command-line tools that are built into Mac OS X? Simply put, you'll spend a lot of time and effort to produce something that, in most cases, will be less capable than a commercial backup tool. If at all possible, I'd like to discourage you from trying to cobble together a command-line backup solution. I think such approaches introduce unnecessary risk and have the potential to chew up a great deal of your valuable time. In this appendix, I want to explain exactly why the problem is so complex. But some people will surely want to experiment anyway, and for such adventurous ...