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Using My Book for Time Machine

knight — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:50:24 +0000

The latest Mac OSX leopard come with a cool feature , a backup feature – Time Machine , this is the main reason i getting Western Digital External Harddisk – My Book Essential Edition during pc show.

The starting not really that good, i wish to use firewire to connect my Book and my Mac , but there is no respond after i conect both, so i change it to USB but there are no respond too. After doing some google, i found that i need to install driver in order for my mac to recognise my Book.

WD Drive Manager ( MAC ) – after install this and restart , i have the small WD icon on my menu bar, telling me how many percent more of space i leave. So split the protable harddisk into 3 partition , using 1 for Time Machine , 1 leave it for sharing file with windows system and last one should be using for OS virtualization.

Time Machine configuration is easy, too bad is not detail enough, the only thing that you can configure is which folder to exclude from backup. Thats why i think i will cross using iBackup which i mention in previous post , hmmmm do i need to start the topic about whats the advantage of backup ?

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iBackup, do you backup ?

knight — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:36:58 +0000

I was configure my backup process for my imac during weekend, this is one of the free backup application that i found – iBackup , an i series applcation which is quite obious a mac application.

as a mac switcher , we might not know which are the file to backup for mac, iBackup provide a full menu for you to select what you want to backup, incluing system setting and applicayion setting, if the default selection didn’t cover all your need, you can just simply add on your own define folder.

the setup process is simple and direct, you are allow to create different profile, each profile can process some of the backup process, so that you can define different time, backup destination for different profile.

iBackup allow you to configure the method of rsync, you can add in different parameter to configure different scenario, zip method is support too.

simple yet allow different configuration and best this is a free application for personal use, if you don’t have backup habit, i think is better start now.

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Mysql Backup for VPS

knight — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 15:34:50 +0000

Doing some research tonight and finally setup a script to backup all the mysql database on my vps, just to share some of the solution out there

Mysqldumper – it act like a script which require you to install, work with both php and pear
Automysqlbackup – a shell script that allow to backup all database, one file with lots of option to customize
MyCpanelBackup – a desktop program that allow you to backup your database locally
A Smarter Backup Script – a backup script that sharing among cpanel forum

what i doing now is using Automysqlbackup to backup the database daily then rsync to my backup server, account backup might need some tweak also ..

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