Re: backing up system

I just tried it, and the application can be downloaded & installed just fine, but if you try to run it you're asked for a .Mac login to procede. I don't suppose there was an option for selecting the .Mac server? I have some vague memory that Mac OS X server includes the ability to set up and prov

Re: backing up system

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Chris Nandor wrote: > I believe Backup.app is only available to .Mac subscribers, but the > app itself does not require a .Mac account, or being online, any > longer. You can back up to any local volume (including shared volumes > over the network). I just tried it, and the

Re: backing up system

On 02/05/2004 @ 11:57 +0100, Christian Hansen, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: >Chris Nandor wrote: >> I believe Backup.app is only available to .Mac subscribers, but the >>app >> itself does not require a .Mac account, or being online, any longer. >>You >> can back up to any local volume (includin

Re: backing up system

Chris Nandor wrote: I believe Backup.app is only available to .Mac subscribers, but the app itself does not require a .Mac account, or being online, any longer. You can back up to any local volume (including shared volumes over the network). It's freely available at http://www.apple.com/downloa

Re: anacron (backing up system)

On May 1, 2004, at 10:08 AM, Vic Norton wrote: Is it necessary to go the Fink route to install Anacron on OS X 10.3? It has to be patched to build on Mac OS X - there's a link to a pre-patched version of it here: sherm--

Re: anacron (backing up system)

Anacron sounds like just what I need for certain weekly stuff. I tried to install it, but the installation didn't work. Make produced these two errors /usr/include/stdio.h: At top level: readtab.c:40: error: storage size of `input_o' isn't known readtab.c:41: error: storage size of `tab_

Re: backing up system

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Alotta) wrote: > >> 1. Can iSync be used for backups? I'm not sure if I have iSync > >> unless it is standard in Panther. > > > > Well, Apple's blurbs seemed to say such things, but I think, when I > > read the fine print, it was for ba

Re: backing up system

(I just tried, for grins, under 10.2.8, su-ing to an admin user, then sudo-ing a sh to get a root shell without logging in as root, but open-ing "/Applications/AppleWorks 6" as the root user didn't seem to do anything other than opening the /Applications directory in a GUI window. open-ing "/Ap

Re: backing up system

On Apr 30, 2004, at 4:58 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote: Yeah, but the person requesting advice say that he wanted the job to run at an off time since it tied the machine up for 40 minutes... It seems that with anacron, I would get into work bright and early, turn on my machine and it would be useless for d

Re: backing up system

Perhaps it's because I'm not strong on Perl yet, but I took a bit more of a naive view here -- On 2004.5.1, at 05:22 AM, Joseph Alotta wrote: Greetings, I try to back up my system once a week. I have a firewire disk drive that I use for this purpose. I have been using the Lacie software that

Re: backing up system

Yeah, but the person requesting advice say that he wanted the job to run at an off time since it tied the machine up for 40 minutes... I guess whatever "floats your boat" is ok. My last job experience was a sysadm for a big AIX box. Scheduling cron jobs was part of my 'job experience' I think we ha

Re: backing up system

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Jerry LeVan wrote: > Anacron does not appear to run cron jobs at at particular time Yeah, that's the whole point. The emphasis shifts from "I want this maintainence script to run at 3:47 am every Sunday night" to "this maintainence script needs run once a week, preferably wh

Re: backing up system

Anacron does not appear to run cron jobs at at particular time, the dailyWakeup/keypress/cron combination can insure that the cron job is run on time. If you want, dailyWakeup can even restart the system to get going :) If you want a hands on approach PMQueueManager will allow you to schedule an

Re: backing up system

On Apr 30, 2004, at 4:36 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote: If you want to use cron and let your system go to sleep then you might want to take a look some of the stuff I have at http://homepage.mac.com/levanj/Cocoa. It turns out you have to do a little song and dance to make sure the mac is awake (for a lon

Re: backing up system

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Jerry LeVan wrote: > If you want to use cron and let your system go to sleep then you might > want to take a look some of the stuff I have at > http://homepage.mac.com/levanj/Cocoa. It turns out you have to do a > little song and dance to make sure the mac is awake (for a long

Re: backing up system

I use DejaVu for periodic backing up of important folders. It runs as a preference panel, uses cron and psync. If you want to use cron and let your system go to sleep then you might want to take a look some of the stuff I have at http://homepage.mac.com/levanj/Cocoa. It turns out you have to do

backing up system

Greetings, I try to back up my system once a week. I have a firewire disk drive that I use for this purpose. I have been using the Lacie software that came with it. Before Panther, I used to be able just to plug it in and run it under my own id. Now I need to log in as root to run it. Which