Where do I go to access my backedup files?

The 6th property in the actual backup script reads


property backup_target : "Backups/" (* MUST be a folder location with trailing slash! Always relative to home folder *)


If you did not change it, then your backups would be in ~/Backups/, where ~/ is your Home directory. So Open up the finder, click on your home dir, and look for a folder called Backups.

Thank you for your reply… I went to finder, searched for backups and nothing comes up. I followed the instructions as per above, and my flashdrive seems to get to business as soon as its mounted. Also, when I save something the screen briefly flashes (as if it’s backing up – just my imagination?)

I’m having a heck of a time with this… Nothing seems to be saved anywhere on my computer. I def. did not change the script. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I recently lost everything on a different flash drive and don’t want to go through that again.

Where do I go to access my backedup files?

The 6th property in the actual backup script reads


property backup_target : "Backups/" (* MUST be a folder location with trailing slash! Always relative to home folder *)


If you did not change it, then your backups would be in ~/Backups/, where ~/ is your Home directory. So Open up the finder, click on your home dir, and look for a folder called Backups.

Mine’s not working like that. I get the total of all folders when I go up one level.

Could it be that I need to change some of the preferences/properties of the rsync.app? Referring to my concern above.

Try this: Go in your backups folder, click on one specific backup, and hit cmd-I to see it’s info. This will tell you the total size of that folder, which should be around 2gb (as it’s a whole copy of your memory stick). Now go one level up, to the Backups folder, and do the same. You’ll notice that the ENTIRE Backups folder, which contains all 5 backup copies of your memory stick, is in fact just over 2Gb and NOT 10Gb in size.

Mine’s not working like that. I get the total of all folders when I go up one level.

I am using Leopard, and am wondering if I am doing something wrong. I have a Backups folder that was created and the backup appears to have worked. But instead of using rsync to do incremental copies, it seems to just create an entire folder with the date appended.

Thus, if I have an almost full 2GB flash drive, every day I plug it this script uses almost 2GB per day.

That’s how rsync works. It copies everything using hard links. Therefore even though it looks like you have 5 different copies of all of your files, in fact you only have one copy that is pointed to from 5 different memory locations.

Try this: Go in your backups folder, click on one specific backup, and hit cmd-I to see it’s info. This will tell you the total size of that folder, which should be around 2gb (as it’s a whole copy of your memory stick). Now go one level up, to the Backups folder, and do the same. You’ll notice that the ENTIRE Backups folder, which contains all 5 backup copies of your memory stick, is in fact just over 2Gb and NOT 10Gb in size.

The ‘incremental’ aspect of the backup is automatically handled by rsync, where if a file hasn’t changed since the last copy, instead of copying it over it just creates a hard link to the copy saved by the previous backup..

I got stuck a the part where you said to launch the Folder Actions Setup utility. This doesn’t seem to be anywhere on my Mac. I know I haven’t deleted it as this is a new MBP (purchased Oct 2010). Please help

In Snow Leopard, right click on the /Volumes/ folder. If you don’t see a Folder Actions entry in the contextual menu, look for a Services entry at the end – Folder Actions should be in there.

I got stuck a the part where you said to launch the Folder Actions Setup utility. This doesn’t seem to be anywhere on my Mac. I know I haven’t deleted it as this is a new MBP (purchased Oct 2010). Please help.