Found 6 entries tagged with “backup”
- The flying Ninja against a red Sun
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Posted 21 November ‘06
Whilst considering my data integrity strategy I realised I needed a way of storing all my bits of data that can’t be easily saved — stuff like passwords for websites, email receipts, credit card numbers etc. - “Every hard drive will fail at some point in its life” 11
Posted 28 October ‘06
I had two hard drives connected to my iMac — an 80Gb internal and a 250Gb external (via FireWire) — and yesterday my internal one died - one minute it was working fine, then it started making a noise and then about 30 seconds later it died. - Easy backups with Automator and smart folders 15
Posted 10 April ‘06
A while back I did some bitching and moaning about not being able to use Finder’s smart folders for doing backups. A quick recap, minus the whinging: I wanted to be able to label files with colours and have them copied to my iDisk using an Automator workflow. I tried … and failed. So I cobbled together an alternative solution marking files with Spotlight comments instead of colours. It did the job, but not the way I wanted. But now someone has, at last, written the one action for Automator that I’ve been waiting for all along. - Backup files automatically by selecting them in Finder 0
Posted 20 December ‘05
A while back I did some complaining about the fact that I couldn’t label files using Finder’s coloured labels and then back them up using Backup or Automator. - Edit/update QuickPicks in Backup 3 2
Posted 29 September ‘05
If you’re a Mac user and the owner of a .Mac account you’ll have no doubt noticed that Apple have increased your online storage (to 1GB) and have released a new version of Backup. - Trying to use a smart folder 2
Posted 28 May ‘05
I don’t have much that I need to save in order to make my life worth carrying on with should my hard drive die; currently I back up about two and a half gigabytes of data to a DVD-RW once a week. There are more than a few smallish files that could do with being saved daily so I decided to try and copy them to my iDisk with as little of my interaction as possible - I thought using a smart folder would be the key.