Backup remains the focus this week, with Adam’s review of the first Macintosh Internet backup service, BackJack, plus a look at shareware backup programs, offsite backup services, and data recovery services. Also this week, Jerry Kindall reviews ACTION Files, a worthy replacement for the venerable Super Boomerang. News items include reports of Norton AntiVirus damaging disks, plus the first party announcements for Macworld Expo in New York.
Norton AntiVirus Damaging to Mac OS 8.1 Disks -- Symantec Technical Support has confirmed reports of intermittent disk corruption relating to using Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh, though only under Mac OS 8.1 and only with normal HFS-formatted volumes
Macworld Expo NY Events List Online -- Ilene Hoffman has once again posted the Robert Hess Memorial Macworld Expo Events List. If you plan to attend Macworld Expo in New York City from 07-Jul-98 through 10-Jul-98, check the list for public events
Macworld Expo NY Netter's Dinner -- After attending this year's Netter's Dinner at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Al Tucker volunteered to organize a Netter's Dinner for Macworld New York
Long ago, Boomerang featured prominently on many Macintosh users' lists of favorite shareware extensions. Authored by Hiro Yamamato, Boomerang added a wealth of features to the Mac OS, most notably a frequently used folder list in Open and Save dialogs
In the previous installments of this series on backup, I looked at issues surrounding backup as well as at backup hardware and software that you might want to use
With the growth of the Internet over the last few years, there's been added interest in backing up data over the Internet. It's been on my mind for a long time - as far back as 1992, I wrote an April Fools article in TidBITS-114 about a fictional company doing something along these lines.
Fast forward to 1998, and several companies have products that enable computer users to back up files over an Internet connection