MacOS X

BackupPC and Macs

By jeltsch on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 22:10

I myself have been using the backup software BackupPC for almost a decade, and I started to backup our lab computers to a central backup server about two years ago. BackupPC supports deduplication and therefore much data can be stored on a couple of 2 TB drives.

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Stuff the Maverick upgrade broke

By jeltsch on Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:33

My 1.5 year old MacbookPro was starting to behave badly including failure to complete booting and other niceties. The computer support guy suggested to upgrade from Mountain Lion to Maverick to see whether it would fix things.

Reset MacOSX user passwords

By jeltsch on Sun, 04/28/2013 - 14:58

Boot up with command key and S key pressed (Single user mode)
fsck -fy
mount -uw /
password username

BackupPC and Macs

Stuff the Maverick upgrade broke

Reset MacOSX user passwords

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