Full Disk Restore from Time Machine Backups - Over the Network
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.
Tag: osx
A Fix for Time Machine on OSX 10.5.3 over AFP for .mac Users
So the Mac OS X 10.5.3 update broke Time Machine for me.
PHP Configuration for Leopard
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.
Installing MySQL on Leopard
MySQL now provides compiled binaries for Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard. But the startup applet doesn’t work properly yet on Leopard.
Building Git on Leopard
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.
Time Machine Backups over WiFi
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.
Online Backups
We’ve been testing online backup software here at el-Studio for a while now. Remarkable how the slipping of the little rubber band inside our tape drive – the one that connects the motor with the thingy that spins the tape – brings online backups to mind.
The iPhone Cometh
I bought my wife an iPhone. After her first day, Laura was changing the ringtone.