7 posts tagged with backup and macosx (View popular tags)

Mac OS X question for you, MeFi. My fiancee's 120 gig hd has 40 gigs missing. [more inside]
posted on Aug 16, 2007 - 16 answers

Can I make my backup drive bootable without having to wipe it clean and start over from scratch? [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2007 - 5 answers

I need to backup parts of my Mac to my remote server via FTP. Read on.... [more inside]
posted on Nov 24, 2006 - 3 answers

I need to restore a Mac OS X hard drive. My target volume is 300GB. My source volume is a sparse image from a 500GB drive with only 179GB used, but of course, Disk Utility is looking at the total space on the volumes, not the used space. Is there any way to force this operation, modify the volume size of the sparse image, or do this in any way that will be less painful than reinstalling all my apps and settings from scratch? [more inside]
posted on Aug 16, 2006 - 7 answers

I've had my Powerbook G4 for just a touch under 3 years and i've aquired a healthy amount of personal files, photos, music, and work documents. Last night i had a scare with the drive, it failed to boot for the first time since i've had it. Feeling a tad twitchy about the reliability of my drive i ask: Is there a automated backup solution thats flexable enough for me... [more inside]
posted on Feb 23, 2006 - 9 answers

I have two identical PowerMac G5s and a single copy of Mac OS X Server. One is a file server for small network. The other exists in case something happens to the first one. Through what mechanism can I keep the contents of these two systems in sync, whether constantly, every few hours, or nightly? [more inside]
posted on Jan 6, 2006 - 10 answers

Sharing hard-drives between Linux and Mac OSX (tiger). Which filesystem? [more inside]
posted on Aug 24, 2005 - 18 answers