---+ Backup for Macintosh Computers ---++Links [[http://www.bluepiccadilly.com/2012/10/mac-os-x-automatically-connect-network-drive-when-your-computer-starts-or-wakes-sleep][Mac OS X: Automatically connect to a network drive when your computer starts up or wakes from sleep]] <br> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-nas-windows-share-time-machine-backup/ ---++Steps How to set up a Macintosh computer to be backed up to a department server * Ask Dale to create an account and backup space on the server * Mount the backup share =smb://biostat064a.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu/vunetid_backup= where "vunetid" is your <nop>VUNetID * Finder...Go menu...Connect to Server * Enter server address =smb://biostat064a.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu/vunetid_backup= and click Connect * Enter username as "vanderbilt\vunetid" and use your epassword * Set remember password if you don't want to enter the password each time you log on * Set share to be connected automatically when logging on * Open System Preferences and click on "Users & Groups" * Click on Login items tab (right side, near top) * Click on + sign to add a new item to open automatically * Highlight the mounted backup space and click the Add button * Make a directory to hold the backup script <verbatim> $ mkdir ~/bin </verbatim> * Copy the backup script [[%ATTACHURL%/backup-userhome][backup-userhome]] to ~/bin * Edit backup-userhome script and replace "vunetid" with your <nop>VUNetID * Copy the exclude file [[%ATTACHURL%/rsync-exclude.txt][rsync-exclude.txt]] to ~ * Set up a cron job to run the backup script on a schedule <verbatim> $ crontab -l $ crontab -e </verbatim> e.g. <verbatim> 00 20 * * * /Users/vunetid/bin/backup-userhome >> /Users/vunetid/bin/backup-userhome.log 2>&1 </verbatim> This command will cause the backup script to be run at 8:00 PM each day. A log file called "backup-userhome.log" is written to the ~/bin directory. By default, the computer will not wake up for a cron job if it is asleep. The solution to this is to schedule a wake up just before the cron job is to run. * System Preferences * Energy Saver * Click the Schedule button * Select Start or Wake and set the days and time appropriately.
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