easiest backup software for non-technophiles?

My mom needs to back up her iMac to an external USB drive. I use rsync
scripts in the Terminal for my own backups, but she needs something
friendlier. I'm looking for an app that you just drag to your hard
drive, double-click, and then pick a few simple options for what you
want to back up, where it should back up to, and how often you want it
done. It should do the rest -- install itself in Startup Items, do the
backups nightly (or whatever), and generally be friendly and helpful.

Note that it does NOT need to do incremental backups, or compress the
backup files, or anything else -- we just want the USB drive to contain
a mirror of her files, updated nightly. It does, however, need to
properly support HFS+ and resource forks.

I see a ton of backup utilities on VersionTracker, but it would take a
long time to try them all. Anybody have a recommendation?

Thanks,
- Joe

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:09:18 -0500, Joe Strout wrote
(in article <joe-A0435D.10091827102006.DeleteThis@comcast.dca.giganews.com>):

> My mom needs to back up her iMac to an external USB drive. I use rsync
> scripts in the Terminal for my own backups, but she needs something
> friendlier. I'm looking for an app that you just drag to your hard
> drive, double-click, and then pick a few simple options for what you
> want to back up, where it should back up to, and how often you want it
> done. It should do the rest -- install itself in Startup Items, do the
> backups nightly (or whatever), and generally be friendly and helpful.
>
> Note that it does NOT need to do incremental backups, or compress the
> backup files, or anything else -- we just want the USB drive to contain
> a mirror of her files, updated nightly. It does, however, need to
> properly support HFS+ and resource forks.
>
> I see a ton of backup utilities on VersionTracker, but it would take a
> long time to try them all. Anybody have a recommendation?
>
> Thanks,
> - Joe

I have three recommendations.......

SuperDuper! ---- SuperDuper! ---- SuperDuper!

........ all available from Shirt-Pocket.

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