Bruce:

This may not help, but my last backup program was Retrospect -- 
however, I finally just bought an additional 30 Gig hard drive and 
then move the entire contents of my two main drives (applications and 
documents -- both 3 Gig) to it whenever I want to back things up. As 
it gets full, I trash intermediate copies. It works for me without 
all that thinking. Besides, the last really good backup, IMHO, was 
DiskFit and no one makes it anymore.

tedd

>While there are several Mac backup programs, apparently only Retrospect from
>Dantz is designed to backup to CDR. With the cost of blank CD's being so low
>and CDRW drives with speeds up to 40x this is the best way to backup several
>gig of data. Unfortunately the only competition for Retrospect that I could
>find, is Backup Mastery from Charismac, but it is temporarily unavailable
>until version 2.0 is released.
>
>Is it possible to write a backup program designed to work with CDRW drives,
>with FB^3?
>
>I would think if you integrated it with Apple Authoring Support that the
>trouble of keeping up with the different CDRW drives would be eliminated. You
>would need to be able to copy files as large as 2 gig, use compression as an
>option, do incremental backups, and spread the backup over as many cdrs as
>needed even breaking large files into pieces so that they will fit. You also
>need a verification process.
>
>Bruce Moore
>
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