[OT] Was: totally satisfied :D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-09-18 21:58, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> I have an rsync cronjob back up my home partition nightly so that the chances
> of losing that data are slim (though I don't back up all the rest of my data
> from my many hard drives unfortunately - it would take up too much space).
> It's saved me on a number of occasions from corrupted or lost data even
> _without_ hard drive failures. Regular backups are a must IMHO, though I think
> that most people consider it too much of a hassle to bother with
> unfortunately.

It's dead easy on Mac OS X with the built in TimeMachine. Just select 
the backup disk and you're done. By default it backups all HFS+ disks, 
if you want you can choose to exclude some.

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/Jacob Carlborg