March 14, 2011
The mac techmail from a few weeks ago was How to use CrashPlan for online backups, which looks at getting the CrashPlan client setup on OS X. CrashPlan is pretty neat: you can pay to store your backups on CrashPlan’s servers in the cloud, or you can use the client for free …
December 13, 2010
Last week’s Mac TechMail was Get flawless system backups with SuperDuper for the Mac which looks at ShirtPocket’s SuperDuper! tool. This is the one backup tool on the Mac that I have 100% confidence, and the tip explains why and what you can do with it. SuperDuper!, …
April 21, 2010
Last week’s techmail was Using rsnapshot to back up and retain snapshots. Rsnapshot is pretty slick; the tip goes into the how and the why, but now that I’ve found this thing I think it’s going to replace my home-brew rsync backup solution. I use subversion to …
December 10, 2009
This week’s mac tip is Cross-platform Dropbox provides easy backups and file-syncing between computers which looks at using DropBox to synchronize files between computers in an easy fashion. DropBox is cross-platform, which makes it even nicer.