backup

Having a very large external disk I wanted to limit Time Machine to use only part of it.

To do so - you can use the same technology as time capsule does - sparseimages.

In the following:

HOSTNAME is the result of:

hostname -s

MAC is the mac address of the network adapter:

ifconfig en0 | grep ether | sed -e "s/.*ether //" | sed -e "s/://g"

Utilities

Time Tamer:

Listening to the digital story this morning prompted me to think about my Aperture setup.

Aperture has its "vault" functionality - but this only works to the local hard drive or to USB/firewire drives directly attached to the box.

I have a RAID5 based NAS (network attached storage) device which I would  far prefer to have my backups on - since I've had USB disks die on me before.

How to get the vault onto the network device?

I needed to get both my Mac machines (mac mini intel and macbook pro) to be included in the amanda backup I run.

I could have tried going via samba - but the following page works exactly as advertised:

http://www.locnar.net/drupal/?q=node/16