Time Machine Backup wiederherstellen

Time Machine ist toll - wenn sie funktioniert. Meine Festplatte hatte einen Hardwaredefekt, und ich wollte sie widerherstellen - gut, dass ich ein komplette Time Machine Backup habe.

Mit neue Festplatte jtzt die Apple-Install-DVD eingelegt und system wiederherstellen gewählt. Ich konnte mein Time Machine Backup (von der angeschlossenen USB-Platte) wählen ... aber die Festplatte, auf die das Backup zurückgespielt werden sollte, erschien nicht in der Liste ... ich habe ewig rumprobiert - partitioniert, umparitioniert, frisch ohnd Paritionen. ...

... und heute einen Tag später geht es erst. Vermutete Lösung: nach dem Partitionieren muss man den Mac neu starte!

Hätte das irgendwo gestanden, hätte mir das viel Frust erspart. zumal ein versuch 10-30 Minuten dauert - so lange dauert es bei TIme Machine, nach dem wählen des Backups das Ziel anklickbar zu haben.

Aber Zeit ist ja kein Problem: Das Rückspielen schein bei meinen rim 200GB noch über 6 Stunden zu dauern....

Don't be evil: GoogleUpdater.exe

I just sniffed a bit my internet traffic, because one update application did not work. I did nothing except lauching the update application while using Packetyzer to monitor all network traffic.

I found some HTTP-Traffic between my computer and "74.125.43.113" (which is "clients.l.google.com") in my captures log. Yes, i tried Google Chrome on my Computer and i have Google Earth installed - the usual Google Apps. So Google installed a litte background process named "Google Updater". (Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open the "Windows Task Manager", click on "Processes" and probably you'll find GoogleUpdater.exe.)

Here are parts from the logs:

Packetyzer Trace:

[...]
Internet Protocol, Src: XXX (192.168.2.XXX), Dst: clients.l.google.com (74.125.43.113)
[...]
Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: 1628 (1628), Dst Port: http (80), Seq: 1, Ack: 1, Len: 437
[...]
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
GET /service/check2?appid=%7BXXXXXXX-XXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX%7D&appversion=1.2.133.33&applang=&machine=0&version=1.2.133.33&machineid=%7BXXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX%7D&userid=%7BXXXXXXX-XXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX%7D&osversion=5.1&servicepack=Service%20Pack%203 HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Google Update/1.2.133.33;winhttp\r\n
Host: cr-tools.clients.google.com\r\n
Connection: Keep-Alive\r\n
Cache-Control: no-cache\r\n
Pragma: no-cache\r\n
\r\n
Request: True


And this is the informationen, google updater tranferes to google (probably every hour or so):

• Installed Application (Which app is installed, which version). This is all google needs to know, if you app needs an update!!!
  
• Machine-ID - google recognized your computer
• User-ID - google regognized the user in front of the computer (i guess "which user is logged in?")
• OS informationen - i have installed Windows XP ("osversion=5.1") with SP3 ("servicepack=...")

Google can track when my computer is online! Google even recognizes me.

Now "google" ;-) a bit for GoogleUpdater.exe and i learned: Googleupdater is inserted in a AutoStart-Liste from windows as well as in the taskplaner. So it's not really easy to get rid of google update, you'll have to find a proper tutorial and remove the software from multiple places.... like a virus...

Google is a great company ... but they have somthing around them, that frightens me....

P.S.: yes, i know - blogger.com belongs to google...

I've just descided to use HFS+ without jounalling for my new disks.

My main operating system ist currently MacOS and Linux, these can read and write HFS+ (linux can only read HFS+journaled, so i've got to disable jounalling)

Windows will only access these disks via samba, if i need this. bad, bus possible.

Filesystems for any OS... (2)

ext2 for mac is last updated in 2006. well, don't know if i want to use this in Leopard (from 2007).

Now I start thinking about NAS Storage with NFS and CIFS. But NAS is quite expensive :-(

ioxio

Die Seite IOXIO die ich ein wenig technisch betreue taucht nun endlich in den Google Suchergebnissen auf. Um das ein Wenig zu bekräftigen, gebe ich hier mal ein paar Stichworte, dir für ioxio ganz passen sind: Keramik Nagelfeilen, Fußraspel undWetzstäbe von ioxio. Weiß nicht, ob sich google so ein wenig beeinflussen lässt, aber einen Versuch ist es wert...

Das Dumme an der ganzen Sache ist, dass die ioxio-Seite, als eine der wenigen Seiten von mir, lange so gar nicht im Google-Index auftauchen wollte. Eine ärgerliche Sache, weil das so ziemlich die einzige kommerzielle Homepage ist.

Jetzt scheint die Seite stück für Stück in den google-Suchergebnissen zu erscheinen - Lustigerweise Seiten ohne viel Text mit altem URL-Schema (welches noch gültig ist, aber nicht mehr verwendet wird) zuerst. Ich dachte, Google hätte gerne innovativen Content? der ist auf anderen Seiten zu finden, die noch nicht erscheinen. Naja, vielleicht kommt das ja noch.
Die besseren Seiten beschreiben echt gut, wie man Messer richtig pflegt, benutzt und schärft (natürlich mit Keramik-Messerschärfern ;-) ). Gerade das richtige Schärfen macht übringens vielen Menschen probleme und da lohnen sich die neueren DUO-Wetzstäbe von ioxio, die das einfacher machen. Für das gelegendliche Schärfen echt besser.

Wie schaffen es Nachrichtenportale, dass Pressemitteilungen schon wenige Stunden nach der veröffentlichung in den Suchergebnissen erscheinen? Wieso kommen meine Seiten nur Stück für Stück?

Fragen über fragen...

Filesystems for any OS...

I'm just thinking about filesystems on my next USB-Backup Disk.

Status

Currently i have backup disks formatted with FAT32 (for use with all OS), AFS (for OS X-Time Machine) and ext3 (for linux backups). My main backup disks formatted with FAT, because at this time "Mac OS X" did not support anything other.
I currently plan to by new disks, so it's time to think about this filesytem-mix (or filesystem-mess).

needed Features

Here are my features, i'm dreaming of:

• journalling: my backup disk should be able to hold my data, even if the OS crashes the disk losses power.
  
• filesize: it would be nice to be able to store at least 4.7GB ISO-DVD-Images (i sometime master the images on one PC, but burn on a differen one) and to store my full-length DVB-?-Movies (captured from TV) on the disk without splitting.
  
• hardlinks: Do you know Apple's time machine? then you know why hardlinks are something fantastic. you can copy wih "rsync --links-desk=..." and have something like a versioned backup for your data. The best: you do incremental backups, but can delete old backups as if they are full backups.
  

i do need the backup with several Operating systems. If my Macbook is sunk in the toilette, i'd like to access my data via linux or windows. (Which is quite difficult, i i have only the time machine backup - who can read AFS with this apple partitioning??)

Possibilities

a bigger and maybe for you better ist is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

FAT32

• OS-Support: excellent
• biggest filesize: 4GB (bad)
• journalling: no, but many tools can repair FAT.
• hardlinks: no

NTFS

• OS-Support: not sufficient:
  
  • win: excellent,
    
  • linux: good (ntfs-3g: read/write),
    
  • mac: native: read-only, ntfs-3g should works
    
• biggest filesize: 16TBGB (but not shure, if anyone but win can read >4GB-Files)
• journalling: yes (at least with win, not shure what ntfs-3g does here)
• hardlinks: yes

ext3

• OS-Support: good
  
  • win: http://www.fs-driver.org/ -> without journalling
  • linux: native
  • mac: not shure yet (wikipedia say's: "possible with ext2fsx" -> without journalling)
    

• biggest filesize: 16GB (enough)
  
• journalling: yes (not windows)
• hardlinks: yes

Looking at the above mentioned list at wikipedia, i guess these are all i can choose.

Results

I don't like to use NTFS, because it is not open sources and with each new windows version, i'm not shure if features are added that break my linux/mac (write) support. The restore possibillities are either cost money or come from Microsoft. The tools from MS are okay, i guess, but i the need windows to repair. This is dangerous in an emergency! (Just try to find a Windows-Live-CD...)

FAT32 is ancient, though it lack eatures of modern files systems. I will use this filessystem on "transfer usb disks" because anyone can read/write this without problems.

ext2/3 i'm not shure about this. the Mac ext2fsx project has a beta from 11/2006, Leopard appeared 10/2007. The filesystem itself has all features i need. Read/write support for windows and Linux is good, but Mac.... .

Anyone knows a better alternative?

Links

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems

The Blogosphere seems to prefere "ext2/3"

• http://www.tuaw.com/2005/03/01/sharing-a-file-system-among-linux-mac-os-and-windows/ -> ext2
  
• http://opensource.weblogsinc.com/2005/03/01/sharing-a-file-system-among-linux-mac-os-and-windows/ -> ext2
• http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/850546.html

Websites...

I currently help with the techincal problem on a website - ioxio - Premium products in ceramic and plastic. Even if you do not plan to buy knifw sharpeners (if you already own one), you may want to go to to Sharping Tips.
Sometimes it's fun to write an own Online-CMS, sometime (now) not. Right now i'm doing some SE-Optimizing, I home in some days a google search for ioxio will point to this site - should not be that difficult.

To be honest, i hope this blog entry will help, so that's why i'm writing this. Greetings to Nadine ;-)