I.D.E.A. » Administration http://www.2-bit-toys.com Inspirations, Dreams, Explorations, Addictions Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:59:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Moving Time Machine backups to a bigger drive http://www.2-bit-toys.com/2012/01/05/moving-time-machine-backups-to-a-bigger-drive/ http://www.2-bit-toys.com/2012/01/05/moving-time-machine-backups-to-a-bigger-drive/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:40:28 +0000 james http://www.2-bit-toys.com/?p=236 I have a drive with 3 partitions (The Big One, Rachel Time Machine, James Time Machine). I had quite an ordeal trying to moving each TM backup to a new/bigger drive. Initially I tried doing a straight copy from the File Manager…i.e. just dragging the Backups.backupdb directory to the new drive. It worked for Rachel Time Machine (took probably 3 or 4 hours). (I also found out that doing a straight file copy essentially is not efficient because doesn’t preserve the links (logical pointers to files) but essentially duplicates the file that the links are pointing to (see patrix’s comments in the link above). After copying the files over, I pointed Rachel’s laptop to use the her new Time Machine drive and I can see all of the older backups. Great!

Migrating James Time Machine to a new drive was not so smooth. Doing a straight file copy took forever (something like 5 to 6 hours)…I basically let it run over night. In the morning I woke up to find that it didn’t work. Here’s the ordeal described for a Stack Exchange post. As you can see from the post, trying to copy using OSX’s Disk Utility didn’t really work the way I wanted to. It basically cloned my drive so that my NEW drive was just as small as my original (I think it basically created a small partition…but the weird thing is that if you look at the disk in Disk Utility, there is only one partition and it should be 1TB, the size of the new drive…hmmm). Carbon Clone Copy didn’t work either. Finally SuperDuper! did the trick!!!

I have to thank this Neil’s Apple Blog post for mitigating some of the frustration along the way…it was comforting to see someone else with the same issue and that a solution was possible!

]]> http://www.2-bit-toys.com/2012/01/05/moving-time-machine-backups-to-a-bigger-drive/feed/ 0 Upgrading WordPress using SVN http://www.2-bit-toys.com/2009/01/01/upgrading-wordpress-using-svn/ http://www.2-bit-toys.com/2009/01/01/upgrading-wordpress-using-svn/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:11:55 +0000 james http://www.2-bit-toys.com/wordpress/?p=55 I just recently discovered I manually installed this blog a long time ago, instead of using my hosting service’s “one click install” feature to install WordPress.  They also make it really easy to upgrade.  But I also found out that at some point I had converted my install to use SVN instead.  So, now all I have to do to upgrade my WordPress software is to:

  1. Go into the root directory of your blog
  2. type ‘svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.7 .‘  (make sure you refer to one of the right version tags here)
  3. Go to your browser and run http://yourblog.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php

That’s it!  Really simple right?!

Read this to find out more information about SVN and WordPress.

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