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From a broken Promise to an even bigger Promise

A second hard drive failure in my Promise Pegasus RAID system forces some choices.

February 10, 2016 Macs, Technology

Synchronise, clone, backup: rsync, ditto, and their derivatives

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An overview of some of the many ways of keeping folders in sync, backing up, and making remote copies.

January 7, 2016 Macs, Technology

From disaster back to normal: rebuilding the RAID

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How I recovered my broken RAID backups, and got everything working again.

December 4, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Looking for an old phone number

How can I find an old phone number in my Time Machine backup?

October 24, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Files with strange names

I have found some files with odd names which occupy lots of space. Can I delete them?

October 4, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Evernote, or Nevernote?

How can I access info recorded in Evernote back in 2009?

October 3, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Time Machine out of control?

Backups have started to eat away at the free space on the backup drive very quickly. How can I control this?

September 23, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Time Machine and NAS

How well would Time Machine back up to a NAS?

September 7, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Time Machine or file server backup?

Our ten Macs back up work in progress to a server. Should they also run Time Machine?

September 3, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Changing Time Machine

My Time Machine backup has mysteriously changed name. Should I worry?

September 2, 2015 Macs, Technology

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