Archive for the 'Backup' Category



I’ve been thinking for a while how to properly keep back-ups of all of my data while, at the same time, saving a few bucks. Since the “cloud computing” term is now floating all over the Internet, I thought that a distributed, remote back-up service might do the work for me.
I looked around and found [...]

I have been thinking for a while to implement incremental, cyclical backups on my home network. The problem with cyclical backups to tape is that they are slow. The problem with cyclical backups to disk is that they consume a great deal of space. I finally opted for cyclical backups to disk since my DDS-3 [...]

iBackup has problems backing up folders to iDisk if those folders’ icons have been customized.
BRIEF: It’s a problem caused by folders with customized icons.
DETAILED: Sometime ago, I customized the icons for the “Library” and “Documents” folders as I didn’t like the default ones – I took the icons from the wonderful World of Aqua set [...]