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Parachute for Mac

  • Trial version

  • In English
  • V 1.1.0
  • 4.2

    (0)
  • Security Status

Softonic review

Basic scheduled backup tool

Parachute is an interesting alternative to Time Machine which allows you to make customized backups to local and external drives as well as FTP servers.

Parachute is very simple to use. Just select the files you want to backup and then select a target and time schedule. However, although Parachute is supposed to save your preferences for each backup, it appears that it doesn't so you have to enter the same details every time you want t perform a backup which isn't ideal.

There's also no easy way to see how scheduled backups are progressing either - it would be useful if Parachute warned you when a backup is in progress. However, in all other respects it's a decent app with a clean and clear interface and simple setup procedure.

Parachute isn't really a complete backup tool but it's better than nothing for basic backups

This is a major update that improves the stability and provides important bug fixes.The update also adds some popularly requested features, including backups over FTP/SSL and full 64-bit support.New: Full 64-bit supportNew: Backup with FTP over SSLNew: Fast snapshot engineFixed: Crashes during backupFixed: Canceling a remote task takes a long timeFixed: Progress bars displayed too quicklyFixed: Crashes during SFTP backupFixed: Server and port confusing in MobileMe setupFixed: Backup fails with "Failed to rename file" errorFixed: Crashes randomly during backupsFixed: Can't remove backup with locked fileFixed: Hangs after iDisk backupFixed: Smart backups fail to delete files on second runFixed: Crashes when testing connectionFixed: Test connection shows successful connection for invalid host

Changes

  • This is a major update that improves the stability and provides important bug fixes.The update also adds some popularly requested features, including backups over FTP/SSL and full 64-bit support.New: Full 64-bit supportNew: Backup with FTP over SSLNew: Fast snapshot engineFixed: Crashes during backupFixed: Canceling a remote task takes a long timeFixed: Progress bars displayed too quicklyFixed: Crashes during SFTP backupFixed: Server and port confusing in MobileMe setupFixed: Backup fails with "Failed to rename file" errorFixed: Crashes randomly during backupsFixed: Can't remove backup with locked fileFixed: Hangs after iDisk backupFixed: Smart backups fail to delete files on second runFixed: Crashes when testing connectionFixed: Test connection shows successful connection for invalid host

PROS

  • Clean and clear interface
  • Simple to use
  • Backups to external and FTP sources

CONS

  • Very basic

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Parachute for Mac

  • Trial version

  • In English
  • V 1.1.0
  • 4.2

    (0)
  • Security Status


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