Editor: ArchiveMac is an application for Mac OS X Leopard which supports archiving large files to CD and DVD. It splits large files and directories across multiple discs if needed.
When restoring, the original file or directory is Restored regardless of how large it is. There is no file or directory size limit.
Is your hard drive filling up with huge media files? Have you run out of room because of large video files? Need a way to save those precious memories that fill up your drive with files that are too big to archive to a DVD?
ArchiveMac allows you to archive your files to CD and DVD so that you can free up space on your hard drive.
When it does, Time Machine will warn you that it needs to delete old backups. What if you want to keep a record of old versions of files before they are deleted forever?
ArchiveMac helps you to archive data from your old Time Machine snapshots so that you can be extra safe and save old versions of files before Time Machine is forced to erase them and they're lost forever.
Backing up is when you save everything on your hard drive so that you can recover in the event that your hard drive fails. However, no matter how large your hard drive is, eventually you Accumulate too many files and fill up your drive. Backing it up won't help, you simply have too much data.
Archiving is when you MOVE data from your hard drive to somewhere more permanent but not as accessible. Typically this means offloading data from your hard drive onto optical discs. Once you've created your archive, you can free up space on the hard drive.
