Like many people with jobs in corporate IT departments, I’ve encountered various revisions of Backup Exec over the years, serving as the cornerstone of a company’s backup routine. In fact, few software packages in regular use today have such a long history. My first experience with the software dates back to 1993, when Conner Peripherals […]
The first article I ever contributed to Techcitement covered my experience trying out the FreeNAS, v8.0 server. Since then, my FreeNAS box has been happily storing Time Machine backups from several different Macs in the household — until now. What changed? OS X Lion! Apple’s ongoing efforts to increase security of their OS includes disabling […]
As a member of a family of five who are all avid computer users, one of our growing problems has been sensibly managing an increasing amount of data. I’ve had our home wired with gigabit Ethernet for a while now, which makes the process of copying large files (such as video) from one computer to […]
