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Turns out Time Machine is not just for accidentally deleted files — it works great for restoring a Mac from bare metal, too. Even over the network. James Duncan Davidson’s instructions for using theOSX Leopard install DVD to boot and restore from a Time Machine backup work great if you back up to aUSB or FireWire drive. But I use Time Machine over the network, so my backup set wasn’t available. Nedospasov had the secret for mounting the network backup share first. Here’s the whole process: 1. Boot from the installer DVD...
June, 30 2008 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
So the Mac OS X 10.5.3 update broke Time Machine for me. The update did fix Time Machine backups over the network for many people, but not for me. Lots of folks have tried various things to fix the problem (like standing on their head, reformatting, fingering prayer beads). Here’s what fixed Time Machine over AFPfor me. I had a setup that was backing up perfectly on 10.5.2. MacBook connected to wifi network Mac Mini with external drive A shared folder on the Mini’s external drive (called “backups”) that was...
May, 31 2008 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Both Apache 2.2 and PHP 5 come with every installation of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. MySQL does not. There are a couple of tricks for installing and/or turning them on —and thereby attaining Development Happiness. Here’s how we configure our development machines at the studio, where our PHP work is primarily Drupaland we use several virtual hosts. Install MySQL Not hard, but a little long for this post. Take a look at our instructions for installing MySQL on Leopard. Configure Apache for PHP and Virtual Hosts Though...
April, 4 2008 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
MySQL now provides compiled binaries for Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard. But the startup applet doesn’t work properly yet on Leopard. So here’s how to install MySQL on Leopard and start it using launchd — the standard Leopard way. These instructions should work for both Tiger (10.4) and Leopard (10.5). Download MySQL for your OS and architecture (PowerPC or Intel; 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard) Install MySQL from the package in the dmg — something like mysql-5.0.51a-osx10.5-x86_64.pkg DO NOT install the startup item package...
April, 4 2008 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
So you want to use Git for distributed version control. For Mac OS X 10.5 there are a couple of options for installing Git. Fink packages an almost up-to-date version, named simply git MacPorts packages an up-to-date version asgit-core Either of these methods, though, installs lots of dependencies. Which requires lots of compile time. And lots of disk space — especially for the MacPorts version. So I prefer to compile Git myself — and use Fink for dependencies. Here’s how I do it. Install Fink by following Fink’s...
April, 4 2008 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Leopard does not (yet?) backup to a disk attached to an Airport base station, to lots of people’s concern. But OS X version 10.5.1 will backup over the network — to another Mac. It works just fine over wired or wifi networks, so it works for MacBooks. Initial setup is easy. On the host Mac: Plug in your external drive. Turn on File Sharing from System Preferences (AFP, the default, is what you want). Share a directory on your external drive where you’ll store the backups. On the Mac you want to back up: Mount...
February, 8 2008 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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