Humpday Mac maintenance: sharing network drive with Windows, backup system and uninstalled Virex
Doing some maintenance on the Mac today:
- implemented a backup system to a partitioned network drive to share with Windows and Mac. I formatted the partition as FAT32 and used Windows File Sharing with permissions set for read/write. Works great, although there is only 32GB of space for backup, that should be plenty for my Mac. I have been concerned about this for a long time because I only have one Mac and if it goes down, I’d lose my work.
- setup a backup automator action that will copy/move my important files from the Mac to the backup network drive. Am also considering backing up some of the files to remote location by using the service Mozy. It’s free for up to 2GB.
- unchecked/disabled all the widges I wasn’t using. The only two I’m using at the moment are SysStat and EpochTimeConverter
- systat alerted me to a memory problem with VshieldCheck which is fallout from Virex. I Googled the problem and found O’Reilly had recommended uninstalling Virex clear back in May 2005. Woohoo, the eMac is cooking now!
Any other Mac system tweaks I should setup?