Living with Tiger
It’s funny, but I’m still getting comments on my First Week With Tiger article from back in May. And the people who are commenting are generally saying they found it because they were having the annoying postfix error I was having (and later corrected with help from some readers). I still haven’t gone back to enable postfix or attempt to fix what I had there from the default installation. I still have the org.postfix.master.plist file sitting on my desktop where I dropped it after dragging it out of the launchd folder. For the brave, there is a decent launchd introduction on Apple’s Developer site.
update: “pab” wrote back to me saying that he ran software update on his installation and that fixed the problem.
Rumour has it that OS X 10.4.3 is imminent and will contain a staggering number of bug fixes and improvements. This is going to coincide with some much-needed improvements to the .Mac service and potentially a version 3.0 of the somewhat weak Backup software. Currently Backup version 2.0 allows you to sync 1 computer to an iDisk folder. Version 3.0 will reportedly allow multiple computers to use the service. Another much-needed feature is the ability to set different backup sets with their own locations.
I’m still holding out hope that a fixed version of rdiff-backup will appear in the Fink Project at some point in the near future. It is broken under 10.4 with the changes to the Unix tools it relies on, apparently due to the way Tiger handles resource forks. I’m currently using rsync on my PowerBook and Backup on my PowerMac. I’ve seen a couple of articles in the past couple of weeks on backup software and strategies for OS X. One of the better ones was on the www.macdevcenter.com titled Automated Backups on Tiger Using rsync. The author Richard Hough took a strange tack by concocting an AppleScript to be executed from iCal on a scheduled basis. The rsync magic he suggests would fit just as nicely inside a launchd entry.
The other article I read was linked from the Unofficial Apple Weblog and was considerably more verbose and required more software. Since that site is loading far too slowly over dialup (and that’s just their RSS feed) I’m not going to bother linking it.
taking laziness to new heights…
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