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 [...]

The rsync software that comes with Mac OS X 10.4, and newer releases, supports extended attributes (HFS+ resource forks). This means it can sync files from a local HFS+ filesystem to a remote volume which does not suport HFS+ resource forks by using AppleDouble encoding.
The AppleDouble encoding splits a native HFS+ file in two parts:

The [...]