very disappointing back up- SilverKeeper

[csonni]

I've been using SilverKeeper for some time now to back up my files to an external drive.  Just today, I decided to run the "Compare" to check out my back up sets immediately after running the back ups.  Unfortunately, I found that SilverKeeper failed to reliably back up my most important files- some created in Office X and my Quicken files.  When running "compare", that dates were identical, but the sizes were different.  When I opened each file to compare, the file that I assumed was backed up was an older file.  What frustrates me is that just 2 weeks ago, I wiped my drive clean to install Panther.  I dragged over all my files after the install, assuming each file was identical to the originals.  Now, I have financila files and inventory files that I can safely say are not up-to-date.  And I don't know where or how to go back to the original just before I wiped the drive.  Is this what I wshould expect with back up software (even though it is free from Lacie), or should I expect more reliability?  Now I have to revert to manual drags to guarentee reliable back ups.  Where else can I turn for a reliable back up system?  Should I have to compare files to make sure of its reliability?!

[bobw]

The old saying You only get what you pay for may apply here. I haven't used Silverkeeper, so I can't say for sure.

I use Tri-Backup, but it's about $49.00. There are others cheaper and more expensive.

With any backup program, use it daily for at least a week and compare the backups everyday to make sure there are ok.

I use Tri-Backup daily for all my important files, runs in the background. Works great.

[csonni]

Just downloaded and am trying out Deja Vu.  1.  The cursor on my Pismo is very jittery and unpredictable when doing the initial backup.  2.  I did a get info on the original folder of files and the destination folder and there is a discrepancy in the bytes taken up.  Shouldn't it be an exact copy, bytes and all?  How am I supposed to know what didn't copy over?  Is there some sort of invisible files?  The source folder is nearly a meg larger.

[krissel]

Are both the drives formatted for HFS+?  Double check to be sure as that may account for the file size discrepancy. Even so if you have paritioned a small drive so the volumes are smaller than 1G, I believe the 4k file minimum doesn't hold true.