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Mac in the Cloud

A few days ago I noticed a post in Tim O’Reilly’s twitter feed asking whether or not it would matter whether people ran a Mac or a PC once everyone had migrated to a cloud.  Well, there are a few things about Mac OS X that make it fairly difficult to run in a cloud [...]

Posted on August 20, 2008 at 12:22 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine Config

You can customize what Time Machine does not back up by using the following plist: /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist Simply add the strings that you don’t want to back up and it will no longer back up those locations.  Remove the strings to re-add them at a later date. In the UserPathsExcluded key, you can exclude paths that in [...]

Posted on August 18, 2008 at 1:26 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Time Machine

Mac OS X 10.5: Using Unsupported Disks with Time Machine

I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal If you want to use an unsupported disk type for your Time Machine archives, running the following command on workstations will allow you to do so: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

Posted on November 7, 2007 at 12:18 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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