Apple Backup

Apple Backup is a backup utility included with System 7.x and again under .Mac and MobileMe for Mac OS X.

Apple Backup in Mac OS X
Backup was a simple Mac OS X-only software program made by Apple Computer for file backups. It was available through Apple's .Mac collection of Internet services. Backup can be used in connection with either a user's .Mac iDisk or the Macintosh's CD-RW or DVD-R drive to make safe, archival copies of critical files and folders.

The initial versions of Backup were regarded as feature-sparse and frequently unstable. However, on November 5, 2003 Apple released Backup 2.0, which added a few new features and promised to be far more reliable than its predecessors.

Though it allowed for the creation of archive copies of important data, Backup was seen as not being feature-rich enough to compete with full-fledged backup programs such as Retrospect by Dantz. By 2006, Backup was replaced by Time Machine.