Those of you who have been editing your login background since 10.7 through to 10.7.3 would have noticed that upgrading to 10.7.4 broke the custom login background. This is because Apple have changed the way in which this background is applied, as well as the location.
We recently purchased a new MacMini Server which came with Lion Server pre-installed. You no longer receive media, as we know – Lion is a media-less release. So I hit a snag when I wanted to restore the MacMini back to a clean install – at work our internet connection goes through a proxy server – as per the Apple documentation, Lion Recovery HD (CMD+R) doesn’t support the use of Proxies!
Many people new to the OS X Server platform find out the hard way that Apple’s Time Machine is really no good for backups, especially where databases and web services are involved.
In this article we will take a look at how to use the ever popular Carbon Copy Cloner by Mike Bombich, in collaboration with a copy of scripts to safely backup your OS X Server.
