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I tried and tried to like Dantz’s Retrospect for backing up my iBook, but I couldn’t. The damn thing is just way to complicated for regular backups. All I wanted was something to simply backup my user files and be done with it. When I joined Apple’s .Mac I wasn’t expecting too much of the Backup.app that came with the service. But, as it turns out, it is the most used application that I have from .Mac. The thing is easy to use and can backup to whatever media I want. So now I have a smaller backup (just my documents, spreadsheets, etc) that I do to my iDisk and a larger one (my whole user directory, including my iTunes, Pictures, etc) that I do to my external 30GB Firewire drive. There’s no hassles and no real setup. Just click what I wanted to backup, click destination (iDisk, harddrive, CD, DVD), then click the backup button and away it goes. That’s what I call a good application!