scheduled backup over a network

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Originally Posted by pictor

I just got myself an external hard drive, partitioned it in 2, and would like to use to back up my imac, and my wife's mini. Backing up my machine is simplicity itself, however my wife's machine is what I am wondering about. I am currently doing a full backup as a disk image (as specified in the pdf file that came with the download), and that's working. What I am wondering is, can an incremental backup process....

a) wake up the computer if it's asleep (optional, since there are other ways to do this)
b) log in to the other mac as a specific admin user
c) mount the specific partition
d) do an incremental backup to that disk image
e) unmount the drive

It's the ability to do the authentication as part of the scheduling process that I am wondering about, and can't find reliable assurance on. It's also something I will certainly want to make sure of before buying licenses of superduper.

Originally Posted by dnanian

Not exactly, no. Please see "Backing up over a network" in the User's Guide: you cannot "pull" a backup from a networked Mac, but you can push one to an image.

I too am in the same situation as Pictor. I am considering using and registering SuperDuper. I want to use it in to backup a number of computers on an internal LAN to a single firewire drive attached to one of the computers. At the scheduled time, each computer on the network should mount the appropriate volume, back itself up and the unmount the volume. Can this be done using SuperDuper and perhaps other tools or scripts?

I am afraid the above response by dnanian does not clarify if SuperDuper will meet my needs. I did read the user's guide and it certainly did not address most of the questions above. I would greatly appreciate a more detailed response addressing the specific questions raised in this thread.

Thanks in advance.
Martin