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This is a native OS X application to backup any data on your computer's hard disk.
Get Backup allows you to easily backup and restore saved data without any special skills. Being simple, the program brings you possibilities which usually appear in professional backup software. For example, the scheduled backup function allows to minimize user's efforts by automatic creation of up-to-date backup archives.
This document will help you getting started, regardless of the level of your computer skills. Anyway, it is recommended to read the System Requirements and Useful Links sections. If you are a pro, you might start working without reading this documentation any further. Or, you may jump straight to Quick Start Guide, which will give you the basic information on how the program works. The Using Get Backup section gives more detailed description of this really intuitive and powerful tool.
A modern personal computer is one of the most amazing assistants for people. As a result of your daily work with a computer, a lot of data is created and modified. Normally, most of the data is stored as files on the hard disk of your computer. However, any computer, even the most perfect one, breaks down occasionally. One of the less reliable computer parts is the hard disk – the data storage. The term "data" will be used to call any type of computer files: data bases, spreadsheets, text files, graphic files, etc.
As a rule, data is the most valuable thing for you on the computer. While your computer can be repaired, lost computer files cannot be retrieved, unless you have made reserve copies of your data to another media. Archives containing reserve copies of data are called backups. To restore lost data, you extract files out of the archive and place them into the corresponding folders on your disk. Timely backups give you the only way of protecting yourself against loss of data, which sometimes has been collected over the years of hard work. Certainly, backups can be made by simple copy-paste method or by creating archives on various data media or on specialized network servers. However, this is a rather tiring process. Besides, people forget doing things. At this point, a specialized program comes to aid, allowing to considerably simplify and automate the task.
Note that a backup copy of your data and the original data should be stored on different media. Keeping a backup in another folder of the same hard disk may save you from occasional deleting or modifying the data. But this may not help if hard disk crashes. To store backups, you can use another hard disk (or hard disk on another computer), writable CD or DVD, etc.
Get Backup is a native OS X application that allows to create backups. It is so simple that even a beginner can handle it. However, despite its simplicity the program offers full spectrum of possibilities for creating efficient and regular backups.
Get Backup lets create full and versioned backups as well as incremental ones. It also provides means for compressing the obtained backups, creating multi-volume backups with a limited archive size, restricting backup content by powerful filters, including the exclusion filter based on regular expressions. One of the key features is automation of the backup process with a flexible schedule, which provides regularity and "freshness" of backups. It also guarantees a powerful protection from losing valuable data. Get Backup allows saving your backups in a safe place: on CD and DVD discs, on any mounted or network devices, on additional hard drives, etc. And of course you can save your backups simply in a separate folder on your hard drive. The format of archives used for saving backups is fully tar compatible. This allows to exchange archives via the Internet with no limits and extracting files from such archives on any computer, using tar utility* without Get Backup.
* tar - this command-line tool creates and manipulates archives which are actually collections of many other files; the program provides users with an organized and systematic method for controlling a large amount of data.
- CPU: Intel or PPC G3 (or higher)
- Mac OS X v10.4 or later
- 3 MB of available disk space for the application
- Some available extra disk space on the system volume for temporary files if you plan to write backups on a CD or DVD *
* The extra hard disk space equals to the size of one CD or DVD, plus about 30 - 300 MB for resource forks and auxiliary files.
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