Re: maintenance

On 2005-11-29 15:22:02 -0800, news <nospamatall@xxxxxx> said:

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


I use this slick utility called Macaroni from atomicbbird.com

It runs the various daily, weekly, and monthly scripts that OS/X wants to run at 3am. My powerbook is usually not on at that time. The program basically tracks the last time the various maintenance scripts have run, and then waits for the system to be idle to kick them off as needed.

Good stuff, worth checking out. It works fine with Tiger.

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