Category Archives: Backup

Time Machine has gone off the deep end

By Ryan | Published: September 7, 2009
While browsing Reddit I found this article. If you’re an avid Time Machine user you should definitely take a look at what could happen to your backups if you’re not careful. You see Time Machine used to warn you when it was about to destroy backups to make way for new ones. Not anymore. Time [...]
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Massive disk corruption and data management

By Ryan | Published: April 5, 2009
I have experienced just about every disk corruption known to OSX and the feeling of despair never seems to go away. Just today I had the dreaded “Invalid B Tree node size” error which means my drive was disconnected before it was unmounted forcing it to write garbage to an important spot on the disk. I have [...]
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Rip and Burn: DVD Backup on the Mac

By Ryan | Published: November 16, 2008
This weekend I had some free time so I figured I would take another look at DVD backup solutions on the Mac. Windows users have always had DVDShrink and a few other tools but with a few applications you can quickly backup your DVDs and make a copy for archiving in the event the original [...]
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