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Dual Time Machine Wielding Backups!

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:08:49 +0000

Contents

0.1 The Ingredients:
0.2 Secret Magic Scripts:
0.3 Letting the Penguins talk to the Fruit:
0.4 Convince the Mac its right at home:
0.5 Location, Location, Location:

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With the purchase of the Apple Thunderbolt Display my Air now has a jumbo-frame enabled ethernet port at its disposal. My current backup strategy is to utilize an encrypted external USB laptop drive while on the road and to just rsync the latest backup when I get home. This has been working great for a year straight (saved my greasy bacon when the airlines forgot my bag) but I figured it was time to reevaluate with my fancy monitor in the mix.

Time Machine for Solaris

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:53:11 +0000

It is great to see the Sun guys utilizing the technology underlying to move beyond “me too!” I am afraid that this maybe too little too late for Sun. I would love to see Sun go the route of SGI/IBM and opensource (GPL not CDDL) their cool beans technologies. One UNIX geek can only hope.

Apple Mail.app and TimeMachine

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:15:59 +0000

I love Leopard! Single best upgrade I have done this year for operating systems. Vista was obviously a waste of time and Gutsy was incremental over Feisty. One thing that I have been throwing my head against the wall with is Mail.app using IMAP Gmail. I screwed up my settings and have gone through deleting the Mail in my Library and Preferences, yet no matter how many times I deleted the settings were still there. I then ran Mail.app from console and sure enough, time machine was automatically restoring the settings. While in any other case this would be great and a huge boost to a home user. A power user it just bugged me. The process is to remove Mail.app backups from your timemachine disk. Just a heads up