Check out Martian LifeBoat
Back up your important data onto your external drives, instantly.
Your Mac holds your life — all your emails, all your photographs, and all your purchased music. You try to keep good backups of these things — but how often do you really run a backup? Wouldn't it be cool if the simple act of plugging in one of your USB Flash Keys or Firewire Hard Drives caused the backup to happen?
...A neat solution from your Martian friends
With Martian LifeBoat, you define sets of files and folders to be backed up (we call these "LifeBoats"). Each LifeBoat is associated with one removable media device — a particular USB Flash Key or external Hard Drive. Each time the associated device is connected to your Mac, Martian LifeBoat springs into action and starts backing up the specified files and folders onto the device. Now, your device contains a perfect mirror of your files.

If you're more into manual backing up, you can, of course, specify that you'll request the update of a LifeBoat by hand each time you want it done. In this case, you can use Martian LifeBoat to make a backup in just three clicks of the mouse.

Keeping your bits safe since 2006
Once you've defined your LifeBoats and backed them up, you'll find that Martian LifeBoat has conveniently put the files into a .DMG disk image file on your removable media device. Just double-click it in the Finder and you'll have safe, read-only access to your backed up bits!

Want to keep a hard drive with your important stuff down in your safety deposit box or fireproof cabinet? Martian LifeBoat makes it really simple to keep that hard drive updated -- just plug it into your Mac once in a while and the latest versions of all your files will be mirrored onto it. And you can sleep easier knowing that you'll never lose those precious photos and important tax returns.

Check it out for 30 days!
You can download and try out LifeBoat for 30 days for free. During this evaluation period, you can use it to define and back up one LifeBoat with as many files and folders as you want. After that, it's $13.99 for a license — licensed users can create as many LifeBoats as they want. If you're buying a license for personal use, all you need is one license to use LifeBoat on all the computers you personally own; if your friend wants to use it they need to buy their own license from us.

Bundles! Get LifeBoat for just $8.99 in a bundle with our other great app, Martian SlingShot.

If you're buying licenses of LifeBoat for a business, contact us and we can talk to you about volume discounts.
Download it now!
Click here to download Martian LifeBoat to your computer. You can use it for 30 days to define and back up one LifeBoat with as many files and folders as you want. The current version is 1.0.1.

LifeBoat works great on Mac OS 10.4 or higher.

Buy it! ($13.99)

Head into our Store to purchase a license for LifeBoat. With a license, you can create as many LifeBoats as you'd like. (Plus it helps us fund the writing of our new Earth Barbecue Cookbook — we've become true pulled-pork gourmets!).

Bundle it! LifeBoat is just $8.99 if you bundle it with our other great app, SlingShot.

One license is all you need in order to use LifeBoat on all the Macs you personally own. If your friends want to use SlingShot too, they need to buy their own licenses.

If you're licensing LifeBoat for a business, you need a license for each computer that will use LifeBoat. Contact us for information on multiple-license discounts.

Keep in touch
Got questions? Drop us a line, or check out our Support page, which has an FAQ and other information.
Check out our blog to keep up with what we're doing and thinking.

Screenshots
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From the main LifeBoat window, you can keep track of the LifeBoats you've defined, as well as add and remove folders to be backed up onto each of them. You can also manually start a backup of one of your LifeBoats in one click if you'd like.

Lovingly handcrafted Mac software
Back home on Mars, Macs have more than 90% market share among higher-order life forms, and small indie software craftspeople dot the landscape. The last time my buddy Weebix and I came through your neck of the Solar System (you know, to make some crop circles) we decided we'd stick around and help out the Mac users of your planet. Martian LifeBoat is our second product, and we hope you like it as much as we do. We're also having fun trying out all the pulled pork places on your little planet here, since we're huge barbecue fans.