Friday, March 28th, 2008
(Via Apple Support.)
If you erase your designated Time Machine backup disk, such as with Disk Utility, Time Machine will alert you that "The backup volume could not be found", and backups will not be made.
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
(Via Apple Hot News.)
"Simply put, there's never been an easier way to back up," reports Bob Levitus (chronicle.com) in his review of Time Capsule. After a few minor installation steps, you just "open the Time Machine System Preference pane on your Mac and click a few times. Leopard's Time Machine ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
(Via MyMac.com.)
Being short on coin is no longer a valid excuse for not backing up regularly. Carbon Copy Cloner from Bombich Software and SuperDuper from Shirt Pocket Software are two inexpensive but capable backup utilities that will help you keep more of your cash?and all of your data.
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
(Via MacNN.)
Sometimes backing up your crucial files is not enough. Ordinary backup programs may copy your files and Time Machine can retrieve files that you may have changed or deleted. Unfortunately, if your Macintosh hard disk completely fails, backups and Time Machine can only recover your data, but they wonít ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
(Via Mac OS X Hints.)
Amazon's S3 is an online storage solution; you pay for only what you use ($0.15/GB/month, plus some transfer costs). I wrote a simple step-by-step guide to setting you a Mac to sync with Amazon S3; here's the executive summary version:You need an Amazon Web Services account. ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
(Via Mac OS X Hints.)
I just got a .mac account, use GnuPG, and want Apple's Backup to store my keyring on my iDisk regularly in a custom Backup plan. However, he keyring is by default located at /Users/myuser/.gnupg, which is a hidden folder in the Finder, and that makes Backup's ...
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