I'm just going to write a small post today as I am tired. After some regrouping with myself I tackled the evil rootkit computer once more today. This time my tactic was a bit different. I ended up taking the hard drive out of the computer, tossing it into an external enclosure and running the scan from a non-vital PC on the external drive. I left work at 5:30 and the scan was STILL running. Elapsed time was something like 6 hours and 40 minutes when I left. I will win this battle. Another battle I had today was with Mac OS X's time machine. Time machine is the software included on Tiger and Leopard that allows you to perform time stamped automatic backups onto an external storage device which can be either directly connected or networked. It works best with a device called "Time Capsule" which is basically an Airport with a built in hard drive. You can find information on Time Machine here and Time Capsule here. Anyway, we have 22 macbooks and a wireless network and I thought it would be a good choice for a simple backup/restore system. It seems to have a few nasty bugs here and there though. Today a staff member's macbook would NOT back up at all. It would go all the way through the back up and then just say it failed..and it wouldn't even go as far as to place a log in the console for me to look at. 3 hours of fiddling and I realized that it was a corrupted sparsebundle ..I ended up having to change the local computer name in sharing, deleting the old sparsebundle and creating a whole new backup from scratch. Apple...please work out these kinks..the whole point of a backup is for reliability..doesn't make much sense for me to delete an entire backup just so it can continue backing up..does it?
Off to make dinner now.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
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