iBackup

Dear User

Let me tell you why, when and how iBackup was developed:

2010 and beyond?

iBackup is a never ending story. There are always improvements and bug fixing to do. Even Apple's Time Machine doesn't supersede iBackup. Why? iBackup just copies files and folders, so you are always able to restore the items using iBackup or drag and drop them to the folder they belong.

October 2009

I upgraded to Snow Leopard and did first backup all my stuff, then reinstall from scratch and restore my data. I went smothly. I had to extend iBackup's UNIX copy commands to allow specific settings for 10.6.

February 2008

My internal disk of my iMac crashed. I lost all my data. For sure I did a lot of backups before and after the disk of the iMac was fixed, I did a restore and all my stuff is back ;-)

February 2007

The next big release is taking place. A lot of new features as smart folders are introduced. Also the performance is now much better.

September 2006

I bought a new iMac Core 2 Duo. I did a backup on my previous system (G4) and after installing OS X on the new Mac (Intel) I ran a restore, did a restart and all data was installed; my E-Mails, my Keychain Access, my Safari Passwords, History and all other stuff.

June 2004 - August 2006

Improving... Bug fixing... See "Version History" in menu help of iBackup to know what has been changed.

May 2004

In May I decided to try out Versiontracker and loaded iBackup 0.5.5 up (first public version). In the next few days and weeks I got so much comments on iBackup, most of the users told me it was very useful, mostly of them appreciated the easy GUI, but it was very basic. They ask for improvement and that's what I'm doing until now...
I got to know Seba, who sent me the marvelous iBackup icons.
I also got to know many other people who translated iBackup to their language. You find a list of all translators in the "About" window of iBackup and an overview of all supported languages here.

April 2004

I used (and do still use) Xcode, a developing application, which offers creating GUIs (Graphical User Interface) for AppleScript applications. iBackup was able to backup some settings like iCal and E-Mail. I watched out for a nice application name and was surprised that Apple itself was calling their backup utility "Backup" and not "iBackup". So I called my backup utility iBackup and that's how iBackup was born!

January 2004

In January I discovered AppleScript, an easy to use script language. I made some scripts to back up my data, my E-Mails and other Applications data and settings. I discovered that I also was able to back up the system settings.

December 2004

On Windows, I always made backups, but several times Outlook didn't accept its own .pst files. I lost my E-Mails many times (and you can imagine how funny that is).
On my new Mac I looked for a freeware backup utility to backup my data. There was a lot of good stuff out there, but none of them were able to backup my E-Mail data. I read the help of Apple's Mail and it described which files/folders have to be saved.

October 2003

I had a lot of friends who worked with Apple Computers for a long time, they always told me how easy it is, how fast, how stable...
I bought my first Mac, a PowerBook 1GHz G4, in October 2003.

With Best Regards

Martin