Random bits of info

From here To start the client acceptor daemon use the following command: sudo /sbin/SystemStarter start dsmcad To restart the client acceptor daemon use the following command: sudo /sbin/SystemStarter restart dsmcad To stop the client acceptor daemon use the following command: sudo /sbin/SystemStarter stop dsmcad

I did not develop this solution on my own. I found it in the Apple discussion forums , specifically this thread . Here are the details. I purchased a new external drive, the Toshiba Canivo Basics 1.5TB model number  HDTB115XK3BA at Best Buy. I then follow the directions here to copy my old backup to the new drive. I went to back it up after the transfer and it immediately failed. The transfer had completed while I was at work so it had been 6+ hours since the transfer completed. That was plenty of time for the new hard drive to go to sleep. Turns out this is a habit of Toshiba drives from what I've been reading. I unchecked the option Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible in System Preferences/Engergy Saver and rebooted but that didn't fix the problem. I then came across a post about creating a crontab job to touch a file every minute to keep the drive away. Brilliant. So I now have the following crontab job that runs as the user I log in with every day. * * * * * to...

A simple backup script for backing up my laptop. I have an OS X and Linux laptop so I wanted one script to put on both of them: #!/usr/bin/env homedir="$(echo $HOME)" dom=$(date +%d) ################### # START CONFIGURATION ################### # On the 15th of the month run an rsync --delete to clean out old file. Otherwise just run a regular rsync. if [ ${dom} -eq 15 ]; then   rsynccmnd="rsync --delete -avhz --stats --progress" else   rsynccmnd="rsync -avhz --stats --progress"fi # Path to the exclude file host=$(uname -a|cut -d ' ' -f 1) if [ "${host}" = "Darwin" ]; then  # OS X  excludefile="path to exclude file for OS X"  #EXAMPLE  # excludefile="${homedir}/Documents/Backup/backuplaptop_exclude_osx.txt" else  # Linux  #excludefile="path to exclude file for Linux"  #EXAMPLE  # excludefile="${homedir}/Documents/Backup/backuplaptop_exclude_linux.txt" fi # ...