ComputerWorld wraps up a good week of Apple OS X Leopard coverage with their report on living with the operating system for a full week. No doubt some Apple noses will be out of joint because the article title is “Leopard's Hits and Misses.” What a great opportunity Apple just squandered, with Vista stumbling and everyone primed for another OS X home run. Sigh.
But in the tech market, a hole in one product feature list means a new product to fill that hole. In this case, the folks at Memeo sent me a note about their LifeAgent software and how it supports Leopard and backs up to Apple's own iDisk online storage service. That's what really kills me about Time Machine not supporting offsite backup: Apple sells every serious Macintosh user a .Mac account that includes 10 gigabytes of iDisk storage.
No doubt I'll hear about many more Macintosh backup programs for Leopard that support online backup, but Memeo sent me their information first. Glad to see their reading Network World. Price for LifeAgent is $29.95 direct, and the progtam is also available through distribution.
I don't want to start another flame war here, but Microsoft at least includes support for network drives in all their backup utilities that ship with Windows. Strange that Apple doesn't think online backup support matters, especially when you realize they run an online storage service. Hello, right hand, introduce yourself to left hand.
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Time Machine supports offsite backup
If you setup a 10.5 Server, and allocate one of the share points to Time Machine offsite backup will work via AFP. (Adjustment of Firewall is needed to open port 548 for AFP).
I done it last weekend, works great!