I've been a big fan of Time Machine, the backup system on my Mac OS X computer, but sometimes the backup is slow. I use VMware Fusion for some testing and have been recently wondering if that's affecting things adversely?...

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A friend pointed out to me a few days ago that if I were to have a data hiccup or have my system crash that I could lose everything I've ever written - and what everyone else has added as comments - from my Wordpress blog. Definitely not good. Is there some easy way to back up my blog so that I can insulate myself from this danger?...

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I have a Mac OS X setup in my office that includes an Apple Time Capsule in the middle of the network, streaming backups of every computer and laptop in our organization. One of the laptops was stolen, however, and I can't figure out how to access the backed up data from it on the device....

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I've been running Memeo LifeAgent on my computer for a few months with very good results, but recently wanted to add a specific folder to the existing network backup and was stumped. How do you add or change an existing backup schedule?...

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I just got a MacBook Air and have been enjoying having the world's lightest laptop. It's an amazing piece of engineering and while it appears to have some critical features missing (like a DVD drive or Ethernet port) the fact is that I never used those features on my older MacBook Pro laptop either so it's not anything I miss. Frankly, with my Corsair 8GB flash drive, it's just a super-modern version of "sneakernet" and...

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