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Product Description:
Mathusalem is a robust and unintrusive backup system for Mac OS X Leopard, which can be used either as a System Preferences pane or directly as a command line tool.
Mathusalem is complementary to Time Machine as it backups automatically one or more directories of your choice to remote servers in order ensure extra safety of your most important data.
- It supports a wide range of destinations: local drives, iDisk, WebDAV, AFP, SMB, FTP, SFTP or Amazon S3
- It can generate archives in various formats: sparse or compressed .dmg and CPIO or ZIP archives
- It generates fully self-contained backups i.e. data and settings which makes it possible to access them from any machine or even relocate them
- It can restart a download or upload that failed or was cancelled by the user without having to restart the entire backup
- It runs in low-priority mode on your machine so it doesn't hang your CPU or hard drive
- It runs only when necessary (it is managed by launchd like other system services)
- It is fully open-source which means no proprietary file formats (backup data files are plain XML)
- It stores passwords in the Keychain
- It reports detailed information on the backup progress
- The command line tool version can be integrated in existing tool chains or used with launchd
What's new in this version:
- Allow restoration of an entire backup at once
- Ask for user confirmation before overwriting items on restoration
- Fixed added items in incremental backup being marked with a revision of "0" instead of "head"
- Initial directory for "Restore" button now shows the original item location by default
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.5.0 or later
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Download Links:
Download Mathusalem Version 1.2 (File Size: 1.4M)
Download Links:
Download Mathusalem Current Version (File Size: 1.7M)
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Feedback Summary:
| Version 1.2: | |||||
| Overall Rating: |   (2.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (3.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (1.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Cannot get it to install - Version: 1.3, 9/15/2008 11:25AM PST
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pwforaker
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- Cannot get it to install
Important Information - Version: 1.3, 9/1/2008 12:37AM PST
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Pol-OnlineVersion 1.2 indeed has an issue in which it wasn't checking for free space on disk before starting the backup (this only affected users trying to backup very large amounts of data): this is fixed in 1.3.
Nice utility but has a very serious issue - Version: 1.2, 8/26/2008 12:31AM PST
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RachThis issue is indicated only as a "limitation" of the developer's site: "The initial backup requires as much extra space on the boot volume as the total size of the data being backed up".
And what they do not say is that it can saturate your boot volume in a snap, covering your screen with litterally hundreds of error messages. Your only option is to kill the process and navigate to a invisible folder to delete its temporary files to get your disk space back (which is in /private/var/folders/ in case you desperately need it).
A very bad user experience indeed...
I really hope they will soon fix this issue as I need this type of software because Time Machine cannot backup to a NAS server... But as of version 1.2 it is useless.
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Double-clicked the Preference panel
System Preferences reported: Could not load Mathusalem
now what?