Ronge

For while now, I’ve been dissatisfied with Mac OS X backup apps. There are too many apps that claim to backup, when all they do is sync. In my book synching and backing up are two different things, yet the market is filled with shareware apps that synch. The apps that do perform incremental backups are limited, like where’s the search? Worse yet they are cumbersome to setup and restore from. So for the last couple of years I’ve stuck with Retrospect, which is a piece of garbage (would someone please tell me why it breaks with every major OS update?) What is my solution to this? Well, try writing my own app, of course. My goal was to design a backup app that would have a Mac feel to it (why do none of the apps have searching? Retrospect’s doesn’t count, it sucks too much to be called searching) A few friends and I have been working on putting something together until we saw this. Damn, that’s pretty much exactly what I had in mind, damn you Apple. So for now I’m holding off on development and I’m going to see what Apple releases.