Mac - External hard drive backup software

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I have two external hard drives, WD 320GB and a WD 1TB.

I would like to backup my WD 320GB on a regular basis. Please could you inform me of a good application which could provide these needs:
  • Backup compression (not just copy and pasting the files)
  • Support for FAT-32
  • Possibly scheduling

The external hard drives are in a FAT-32 format because they are sometimes used on a windows computer.

Thanks :)
 

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Take a look at this article which lists various backup software for OS X.

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Note, however, that some backup software is going to require using the Mac HFS Journaled file system. Since your hard drives are formatted as FAT-32 you may actually be better off using a Windows backup program from one of your Windows machines.

Acronis True Image, Norton Ghost, and many others are easy to use and not expensive. Acronis is currently having a special on their True Image Home version.
 

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