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Thomas ██████

Improvements to Backup Bouncer - 0 views

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shared by Thomas ██████ on 30 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Thomas ██████ on 30 Dec 10
     
    Back in April, 2007, Nathaniel Gray introduced Backup Bouncer, a suite of tests that can be used to evaluate a backup solution's ability to preserve HFS+ filesystem metadata. Since then, I have discovered a few bugs in the test suite that would prevent it from accurately reporting results on various platform:OS combinations. I also identified some areas where Backup Bouncer could do a bit more, so I fleshed out some of the tests to be a bit more thorough. Finally, I also added support for testing the support of HFS+ filesystem compression, a feature added in Snow Leopard. See also this report of the Backup Bouncer results for Carbon Copy Cloner.
David Corking

Does the rescue system on the Install DVD include a text editor? - 7 views

It is always nice to have a rescue disk that can be slotted in to repair a damaged startup disk. For recent Macs, the install DVD can serve this purpose. You can run Disk Utility, hdiutil and fsc...

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started by David Corking on 24 Jun 09 no follow-up yet
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