ServerBackup is a new command included in Lion Server, located in the /usr/sbin/ServerBackup directory. The ServerBackup command is used to backup the server settings for services running on a Lion Server. The command is pretty easy and straight forward to use, but does require you to be using Time Machine in order to actually run. In the most basic form, ServerBackup is invoked to run a backup using the backup command. Commands are prefixed with a -cmd followed by the actual command. As you might be able to guess, the commandlet to fire off a backup is backup. The backup command requires a -source option which will almost always be…
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TimeMachine Over Xsan and iSCSI
Now that I’ve shown over the years how to setup an Xsan and iSCSI targets on Mac OS X I am starting to get a number of questions about how to set these up in such a way that Time Machine can backup to them. Since they’re not your typical disks in a lot of cases there’s a small command that you’ll need to run to make it work: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1 Essentially, once you’ve run this command you’ll be able to back up to anything that appears in /Volumes and then some (for example share points on your local network might appear even if you haven’t yet…
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Startup Items Gettin' Ya' Down?
I was recently (er, a few minutes ago) monkeying with some software and jacked up my user profile. I knew it jacked up my user profile because I could login as other users on my computer, always an important step in troubleshooting… Anywho, turned out it was an item to mount my TimeMachine that my account was trying to start automatically at login. I had just drug it into the Login Options in System Preferences like a simpleton. The offending file to fix it: ~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist Why this file isn’t com.apple.loginwindow.plist has always made me wonder, but alas it isn’t. You could theoretically just remove the offending part of the file,…