Simple Backup Software (NTFS-3G support)


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I've been looking all over the place, trying to find some backup software for OSX that will allow me to back up my external NTFS-3G (MacFuse) formatted drive to another external NTFS-3G formatted drive.

I've tried Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper! and both of these either don't support the NTFS-3G, or throw out a selection of errors and don't back the data up.

The two external drives I am using are exactly the same, I wish to make a complete clone of my main external, out of the backup external.

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I've been looking all over the place, trying to find some backup software for OSX that will allow me to back up my external NTFS-3G (MacFuse) formatted drive to another external NTFS-3G formatted drive.

I've tried Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper! and both of these either don't support the NTFS-3G, or throw out a selection of errors and don't back the data up.

The two external drives I am using are exactly the same, I wish to make a complete clone of my main external, out of the backup external.

Well I never tried it for anything other than a Windows Partition but WinClone for Mac can backup clone/move a Windows ntfs Partition

http://twocanoes.com/winclone/

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WinClone seems to create an image of the disk, not actually back it up/mirror it to another disk.

Well you can't mirror it like on a daily basis the way you can with CCC for HFS+

but you can make the image then restore it to another disk, might take a lot more time that way but you will always have a backup to restore Windows on your mac

If no one else has another Idea you could at least try it no?

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I am not trying to restore Windows to anything, my Windows partition is part of my Mac's internal hard drive. I have my main external hard drive, which has music/video/etc on it, which is formatted to NTFS-3G, meaning I can easily use it in OSX and Windows. This is the drive I am trying to mirror.

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I am not trying to restore Windows to anything, my Windows partition is part of my Mac's internal hard drive. I have my main external hard drive, which has music/video/etc on it, which is formatted to NTFS-3G, meaning I can easily use it in OSX and Windows. This is the drive I am trying to mirror.

hmm, Well if it was me i would do it from windows and not OS X but i assume you want access this drive from another computer while OS X is running?

I have never tried it with NTFS drives but OS X can RAID external drives, if it can do this with NTFS drives I doubt Windows Could Access it since it is a Software RAID.

I'll keep on eye out but I don't know of OS X software that can do exatly what you want

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