The Joy of Backup

A couple days ago, I discovered that my hard disk was failing.  I decided that the best COA was to do nothing about it except posting on my blog.  The reason is that I’ve been using Time Capsule and Time Machine for hourly backups for very long (since the beginning of September 2009, where I […]

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Mac OS X Server as VPN End-point and File Server

When I wrote about setting up a Mac Mini Server up for basic operation, I promised showing how to set it up as a VPN endpoint, but ended up forgetting to.  Also, I neglected to show how to add file shares. Let’s remedy that now. VPN End-point This is really easy.  As I only use […]

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Setting Up Mac Mini Server for Basic Operation

A couple days ago I wrote about how I set up my Mac Mini Server, or, that is, I really only wrote about how I set up the hardware. In this post I’ll describe how I have set up the software. I use the server for several purposes. For some purposes a dedicated may seem a bit like overkill but for some purposes a dedicated server is necessary. […]

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