100 Free Useful Mac Applications (Part II) System Tool: Silver Keeper

SilverKeeper V2.0 is a new release of LaCie's free backup application. It has been designed to support Apple's OS X operating system for Intel and PowerPC based Macintosh computers. 

It is now compatible with OS X 10.3.9 through 10.5.x. This includes the current version 10.5.5 of OS X. SilverKeeper is a freeware application from LaCie that automates backups to external storage devices like hard drives, network drives, and other removable storage devices that have IDE, SATA, eSATA, IDE/ATA/ATAPI, SCSI, USB, or FireWire interfaces. 

Almost any read/write device that can mount a writeable volume on the Macintosh Desktop can be used with SilverKeeper.

SilverKeeper requires OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.11, or 10.5.x.

This version of SilverKeeper is not recommended for older versions of the Mac OS. Click here for previous version of SilverKeeper. 

Documentation is provided as a set of SilverKeeper Help and ReadMe files that are installed with the application. If you would like to preview the SilverKeeper documentation before installing, please download from these links. These are PDF files that can be opened with either Preview or Adobe Reader. 

SilverKeeper V2.0 ReadMe ReadMe PDF

SilverKeeper V2.0 Help Help PDF

Registration

SilverKeeper is freeware, but you must provide LaCie with your name and email address before you can download the program. 

To download SilverKeeper V2.0 please fill out the form below, review the license agreement, and then click on the Download button to accept the SilverKeeper license and proceed to the download page. 

Do not directly link to the download page, as the link may change, and the contact information validates that the download page is called from this webpage. If you use a proxy server or other means to access the internet, you may have problems getting to the download page. 

Our download server is dedicated to SilverKeeper, but at times, you may not be able to download due to too many people accessing the server at the same time. Our alternate server location hosted by mac.com and me.com also frequently is subject to overloading. If you are not having any success, try at a later time when load levels may be less.