Apple’s Backup software is a really handy way to incrementally back up selected data, whether to your iDisk or to an external hard drive.

Unfortunately, Apple just upgraded Backup to 3.2, and as it says in the dialogue box above, “Backup no longer supports backing up files and folders outside your home folder.”This is a total drag, as many of us, I’m sure, have used Backup to send data from all sorts of drives to all sorts of other ones. Until now.

I really like using Backup because you can select only the files you want to back up, rather than having to back up a whole drive/folder at a time. You can even get it to auto-find certain file types, such as Word documents or Garageband files. All very nice features for a piece of software which is bundled as part of MobileMe.

But why de-feature a product like this? Unfortunately, creating “a new plan” for me means using Carbon Copy Cloner instead. Another great reason to use MobileMe foiled!