I'm discouraged by the fact that Matt Henderson's backup strategy is linked all over the place on Mac sites this week. I'm not knocking Matt's plan - it's fine, except that it requires a pretty high level of technical setup skill.

My informal lazyweb wish for Backups for the rest of us was one part Tiger feature suggestion, one part shout-out to anyone who has a cheap and simple backup strategy for Mac OS X. (Anyone?)

Matt's solution uses a second hard drive and four (count 'em, four) applications: Synchronize Pro X, DropDMG, File Buddy and CD Finder.

I doubt that many people will use Matt's solution without Matt's help. It's not that it's a bad solution. It's just too complicated. You would have to be very frustrated or really motivated (i.e. recently suffered a hard drive crash) to work though the steps he's taken.

There has to be a better way. We need something easier and more idiot-proof.

P.S. If you like Synchronize Pro X ($99), take a look at Synk ($20).