SuperDuper!

SuperDuper!
I’ve just got a new Mac (well an old G4), that I want to multiboot from a single multi partioned  IDE disc.  I had a multi boot SCSI drive.

I used an application called SuperDuper that can backup a volume entirely to a new one and make it bootable.  Previously I’ve been using this to backup my MacBook Pro to a Disc Image on my Linux box over the network. However, although SuperDuper is meant to be a backup tool, it was dead easy to clone partitions to another disc.
As a simple backup tool (it does incrementals too), it’s pretty cool!  It’s sortof a shareware licenses.  You can use the simple features (which are pretty advanced), although scheduled backups and passwordless ones are only available for cost.  Which easily seems worth it I reckon!

A fine piece of software.

User Manual:Periodic Maintenance – MythTV

User Manual:Periodic Maintenance – MythTV

There are two things I really need to do.  Do regular backups of my MythTV box, and start doing regular maintenance of the database. I have a script that will back up, compress and then use key atheticated SSH to store the backup on my main server.  However, I never run it!  I also spend time very infrequently repairing the MySQL database.  I must set up some cron jobs to do both of these!!!