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RAM: 256MB
Supported file formats: N/A
Price level: Approx. $28
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Synk
The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
Vendor: Decimus Software
Purpose: State-of-the-art Macintosh backup with archival and scheduling features
Description
Synk lets you make bootable backups of both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs, either
partially or wholly, according to scheduled operations. With it, you can back up your
Mac to other Macs and PCs or to external hard disks, including iPods. For expert users
it has many sophisticated features, including full N-way synchronization that the vendor
claims as an industry first.
The Synk 6 product line has three editions—Synk Backup, for archival backup of the
whole system or selected folders; Synk Standard, with two-way synchronization and
additional customization of the process, and Synk Professional, with “deep configurability”
for expert users. It is localized in English, Finnish, French, German, and Italian.
Comments
As a graduate student, Benjamin Rister took over development of Synk from its previous
author Randall Voth. He re-wrote the whole program, and then later formed a company
to do it all over again. The result is an outstanding product that’s more flexible
than Apple’s Time Machine. It can work with networked servers running Windows or
Linux, and requires minimal space to hold the transferred data.
Synk does not copy everything: it uses intelligence to sift out Safari caches, temporary
files, and files in the trash. Check the Help files to find out what is likely to be excluded.
It proves the old adage that there is nothing like a good crash for cleaning up your hard
drive.
Versions: Synk 6.0 (2008)
OS: Mac OS X 10.4 or later
RAM: 256MB
Supported file formats: N/A
Price level: Synk Backup $25, Synk Standard $35, Synk Professional $45
Address: Decimus Software, Inc., 182 Rosewood Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15235-4321, United States
www.decimus.net