Re: maintenance

In article <1133317741.557539.200680@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
tom_elam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Yep, that is a lot of work. Fortunately, it really isn't needed. I run
a backup once a week and that's it.

No defrag, no fix permissions, no anything else in the way of
maintenance.

> That's a LOT of work. On an XP machine I run de*** every 90 days and
> backup about once a week. Everything else is automatic. Another
> reason not to own a Mac. Like most things beautiful on the outside -
> high maintenance.
>
>
> news wrote:
> > Just wondering what people here use for maintenance on osx. I remember
> > in pre-osx days it was more work; norton, diskwarrior and de-fragmenting
> > and so on.
> >
> > I use Carbon Copy Cloner manually every week or so for back-up. Tried
> > retrospect but it seems more complex than I need. The most I can lose is
> > a week's stuff, thats the most i gamble with and the odds seem very low.
> >
> > Onyx does all the system level stuff, again about once a week. The
> > machine isn't on all the time so I think the cron jobs will be missed
> > (is this correct or will it do them after starting up?)
> >
> > I still use disk warrior about once a month. Is there something in
> > darwin I can use instead for this?
> >
> > another thing I found useful is Uninstaller, which I run a couple of
> > times a week, just to see what changes have happened. It's also a way to
> > learn what's going on in the system. Anything I see that I don't
> > recognize I look up.
> >
> > I can't remember when the last kernel panic was. Long time ago and to do
> > with java. Problem disappeared with some update I got. Amazing
> > considering my lack of attention. Greatly improved over 9x.
> >
> > That's about it.
> > Andy
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