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---+ Backup for Macintosh Computers

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>

Topic attachments
I	Attachment	Action	Size	Date	Who	Comment
EXT	backup-userhome	manage	3.6 K	12 Nov 2014 - 16:10	DalePlummer
txt	rsync-exclude.txt	manage	0.1 K	12 Nov 2014 - 16:09	DalePlummer

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