Monthly ArchiveJanuary 2008
computers 20 Jan 2008 11:26 pm
Make Time Machine Backup To Any Volume
After a long search around the net I found a simple way to make leopard enable time machine for any backup system. This includes backup up to a NFS or Samba share over a network. Simple open Terminal.app and run the following command:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
That’s it, after that you should be able to choose your mounted volume in time machine for backup. Now I just need to figure out how to force time machine to backup to a subdirectory rather than my linux home directory. I might have to make an explicit Samba share for that.
Edit based on someone’s comment
If the above command isn’t working for you try using sudo:
sudo defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
computers 06 Jan 2008 11:53 pm
Speed up Visual Studio 2005
For large projects visual studio 2005 performs pretty poorly. Intellisense locks up, searches takes forever. Everything breaks down. Luckily the VS team at MS has a patch available here, this has many improvements for Visual C++ and speeds it up quite a bit. It’s a nice hotfix I recommend if you’re doing any Visual Studio development.