Tusk Backup

Tusk is a Mac backup app for freelance videographers, photographers, and content creators who run dozens of shoots and projects a year. You do not back up whole drives. You create a project for each job, point it at that project's folder, choose where copies should live, and Tusk takes it from there.

Each project is self-contained: its own folder, its own backup destinations, its own file status. A wedding from March and a client reel from last week are separate projects with separate backup setups, not one giant sync job across everything on your Mac. Tusk watches each project folder continuously and keeps every destination in sync as you work.

That project-level view is what makes Tusk different from disk cloning tools like Carbon Copy Cloner or folder sync tools like ChronoSync. Those tools are built around copying storage volumes. Tusk is built around the way freelancers actually work: one project at a time, often spread across several drives and a cloud bucket, with no single place that holds everything.

Supported destinations: external drives (SSDs, HDDs, SD cards mounted as volumes), Google Drive and S3-compatible storage (AWS S3, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, and similar). Tusk stores files in standard formats on your own drives and cloud accounts. No proprietary containers.

Tusk is a one-time purchase at $79. Includes a 14-day free trial with no credit card and no account required. Mac only. Complements tools like Time Machine and Backblaze rather than replacing them.