Re: backing up system

2004-05-02 Thread Christian Hansen
Chris Nandor wrote: I believe Backup.app is only available to .Mac subscribers, but the app itself does not require a .Mac account, or being online, any longer. You can back up to any local volume (including shared volumes over the network). It's freely available at

Re: backing up system

2004-05-02 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 02/05/2004 @ 11:57 +0100, Christian Hansen, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: Chris Nandor wrote: I believe Backup.app is only available to .Mac subscribers, but the app itself does not require a .Mac account, or being online, any longer. You can back up to any local volume (including shared

Re: backing up system

2004-05-02 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Chris Nandor wrote: I believe Backup.app is only available to .Mac subscribers, but the app itself does not require a .Mac account, or being online, any longer. You can back up to any local volume (including shared volumes over the network). I just tried it, and the

Re: backing up system

2004-05-02 Thread Joel Rees
I just tried it, and the application can be downloaded installed just fine, but if you try to run it you're asked for a .Mac login to procede. I don't suppose there was an option for selecting the .Mac server? I have some vague memory that Mac OS X server includes the ability to set up and

Re: backing up system

2004-04-30 Thread Jerry LeVan
I use DejaVu for periodic backing up of important folders. It runs as a preference panel, uses cron and psync. If you want to use cron and let your system go to sleep then you might want to take a look some of the stuff I have at http://homepage.mac.com/levanj/Cocoa. It turns out you have to

Re: backing up system

2004-04-30 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Jerry LeVan wrote: If you want to use cron and let your system go to sleep then you might want to take a look some of the stuff I have at http://homepage.mac.com/levanj/Cocoa. It turns out you have to do a little song and dance to make sure the mac is awake (for a long

Re: backing up system

2004-04-30 Thread Sherm Pendley
On Apr 30, 2004, at 4:36 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote: If you want to use cron and let your system go to sleep then you might want to take a look some of the stuff I have at http://homepage.mac.com/levanj/Cocoa. It turns out you have to do a little song and dance to make sure the mac is awake (for a

Re: backing up system

2004-04-30 Thread Jerry LeVan
Anacron does not appear to run cron jobs at at particular time, the dailyWakeup/keypress/cron combination can insure that the cron job is run on time. If you want, dailyWakeup can even restart the system to get going :) If you want a hands on approach PMQueueManager will allow you to schedule

Re: backing up system

2004-04-30 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Jerry LeVan wrote: Anacron does not appear to run cron jobs at at particular time Yeah, that's the whole point. The emphasis shifts from I want this maintainence script to run at 3:47 am every Sunday night to this maintainence script needs run once a week, preferably when

Re: backing up system

2004-04-30 Thread Joel Rees
Perhaps it's because I'm not strong on Perl yet, but I took a bit more of a naive view here -- On 2004.5.1, at 05:22 AM, Joseph Alotta wrote: Greetings, I try to back up my system once a week. I have a firewire disk drive that I use for this purpose. I have been using the Lacie software that

Re: backing up system

2004-04-30 Thread Joseph Alotta
On Apr 30, 2004, at 4:58 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote: Yeah, but the person requesting advice say that he wanted the job to run at an off time since it tied the machine up for 40 minutes... It seems that with anacron, I would get into work bright and early, turn on my machine and it would be useless for

Re: backing up system

2004-04-30 Thread Joseph Alotta
(I just tried, for grins, under 10.2.8, su-ing to an admin user, then sudo-ing a sh to get a root shell without logging in as root, but open-ing /Applications/AppleWorks 6 as the root user didn't seem to do anything other than opening the /Applications directory in a GUI window. open-ing

Re: backing up system

2004-04-30 Thread Chris Nandor
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Alotta) wrote: 1. Can iSync be used for backups? I'm not sure if I have iSync unless it is standard in Panther. Well, Apple's blurbs seemed to say such things, but I think, when I read the fine print, it was for backing up to