Time Machine is a very simple and elegant backup solution for Mac OS, with an intuitive restore browser. The problem with Time Machine however, is that it takes up all free disk space before starting to erase old backups. This is no problem if you have a dedicated Time Machine disk, but most people usually [...]
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Safe document writing using Dropbox
Lots of people who write articles or create content in any form, often find themselves generating lots of files. A writer will for instance probably have lots of article drafts laying around. Everyone have different solutions for revision control and backup, ranging from a simple manual file copy to using a full-fledged revision control system [...]
Create a fixed size network storage for Time Machine
Time Machine is a backup program built into Mac OS 10.5, Leopard. It saves all files on the computer on a USB or network drive, which can be used for restoration of individual files or the whole computer.
The normal behavior of Time Machine is to keep
hourly backups for the past 24 hours
daily backups for the [...]
Synchronize your data using Grsync
Keeping your data synchronized with an external data storage is essential to keep your documents and other data secure. Rsync is a robust and popular tool for doing exactly this; so what better tool to use as your personal backup solution.
There are of course other tools for doing this such as Unison, which I wrote [...]