Backup solutions for OS X

[BaconTastesGood]

The new Time Machine/Time Capsule setup from Apple looks amazingly nice, but I haven't upgraded to Leopard yet -- I've held off because of horror stories, and also because until now, I haven't seen anything I really cared about. Time Machine kind of changes that.

So before I take the plunge, are there any solutions that work almost as well and maybe have the added ability to work networked NTFS drives instead of HFS+ dedicated volumes?

[Fugitive]

Simple mirroring might be good enough:

rsync -avRr --ignore-errors /Users /Volume/network_mount_point/backup_dir

That's basically what I'm doing for my iBook right now. I'm not positive it's preserving absolutely everything, especially OS X-specific stuff (resource forks?), but 99.999% of the time I just need the raw file back.

[BaconTastesGood]

I have my home directory under subversion control, so I'm not too worried about that, but it's all the little things that I don't want to lose like installed applications, etc. Time Machine basically takes snapshots of your entire system so you can restore at any point in time. In fact, you can use Time Machine as a migration assistant when buying a new system (supposedly) -- you back up and then restore to your new machine.

[mono]

Carbon Copy Cloner is free and works great. However while I know it can back up over the network to another Mac, I'm not sure about SMB support.

http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

[rei]

i bought superduper, the dev's a nice guy.

[Aszurom]

iBackup, it's like MS Synctoy for the mac. Basically, you have folder A and B, and it checks versions on B and moves files over to match them both up. So, doesn't copy unchanged stuff. And I use it over SMB quite well.