Ha! I bought a new computer and with it, the pain of having to recreate a new TimeMachine backup on my FreeBSD server. This time, I didn’t feel like creating a sparsebundle image on a local disk and copying it to my server. Why should I? I have plenty of space on the servers. So, … Read more
I had a PowerBook that was showing it’s age. I didn’t feel like buying new computer so I actually bought a Mac mini on the recommendation of one of my co-workers. Setting up the machine is typical Mac: plug in and go. The migration assistant made transferring everything over to my new computer way too … Read more
You would think that you could use your FreeBSD server as a file server to host your backups. It’s not as easy as I thought it would be for my laptop working over a wireless network. I actually use Retrospect for my backups, but I found that as my data got bigger, reliable backups were … Read more