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Backup Your OS X Home Directory With Benchwarmer

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Benchwarmer is a simple backup application designed for basic users. It allows the user to backup some critical elements of their home directory including:

  • Mail (including prefs)
  • Address Book (including prefs)
  • iCal (including prefs)
  • Desktop
  • Documents

This data is backed up into a single ZIP archive on their desktop. Please leave any questions, comments, or requests as comments on this post. Thanks.

Download Benchwarmer HERE.

This entry was posted on Monday, February 5th, 2007 at 11:33 am and is filed under Apple. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

7 Responses to “Backup Your OS X Home Directory With Benchwarmer”

  1. blatti.net » Backing Up Apple Mail Says:
    February 5th, 2007 at 12:45 pm

    [...] script is no longer necessary with the development of the Benchwarmer application, and was [...]

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    July 27th, 2007 at 7:18 am

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  3. Meow, Brook Meow Says:
    September 10th, 2007 at 10:23 am

    Hi,

    I’m a Mac user in Taiwan.

    Recently I need to back up my mac and transfer them to my new intel mac. So I googled what I need and I found your app.

    It’s nice. Works well in my zh-tw language Mac OS X. But it’ll be much better if it has a restore function(Of course, the route should be referred by user.) Anyway, benchwarmer is nice to help me back my things up.

    Thank you very much,

    Best regards,

    BrookMeow002009112007

  4. Meow, Brook Meow Says:
    September 11th, 2007 at 12:49 am

    Sorry…

    I’ve just checked my backup archives..It can’t show the Eastern language well…

  5. James Katt Says:
    October 16th, 2007 at 1:24 am

    How do you restore a backup of mail?

  6. Doug Blatti Says:
    October 16th, 2007 at 6:52 am

    Thanks for the input. I will attempt to include some language functionality in the future as well as a restore function. As for manually restoring, open up the zip file created by benchwarmer. You will see a readme file and a “Users” folder. This users folder contains all the files that were backed up, stored in the same folder structure as they are on your hard drive. So to restore Mail for example, you will need to copy the following from the Users folder in the archive to the Users folder on your hard drive:

    Users/(your userrname)/Library/Mail
    Users/(your userrname)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist

    Let me know if this helps.

  7. SC Says:
    November 19th, 2007 at 3:57 pm

    Is this wonderful utility Leopard compatible ? I truly hope it is.

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