I am hesitant to share what I’m about to share with you. And it’s for purely selfish reasons. I fear that the more people are aware of this, the fewer deals there will be available for me. Perhaps I’m overestimating my influence; and for once I hope I am. But it’s in the spirit of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘servers’
Off-Site Remote Controlled Servers
This one falls right near the line that separates “pretty darn useful” and “because I can.” Since I’m now charged (for another few weeks anyway) of administering a Leopard Server, I need some way of running said server from home. Mainly because I don’t like driving to the office at 9 PM to run software [...]
Document Your Procedures
I’m in the process of documenting the things I do weekly. Seems like a trivial task at first. Then today I spent an hour documenting, in great detail, my off-site back up system. It didn’t take that long because it’s complicated; rather, it took a while because I had to actually slow down and think [...]
Revising the Backup Strategery
Yes, I used the non-word “Stratergery.” Ever since George the 43rd mis-introduced that word to the world, I can’t stop using it. Makes me laugh every time. But that’s not what today’s post is about. It’s about backups and how to avoid a long night at the office. Most of you know I’m now the [...]
Our New Server, Pt. 2
Picking up from where we left of yesterday with our new server configuration, today I’ll talk about actually getting Leopard Server installed and running. Three Possible Configurations When you first start up Leopard Server, you are asked to make a choice between three server configurations; Standard, Workgroup and Advanced. Standard is the most simple to [...]

