Adamant System - Infrastructure Optimization, Security, Fault-tolerant System, High-Performance Computing - OS X http://adamantsys.com/taxonomy/term/12/all en How to enable Time Machine to backup to network disk http://adamantsys.com/content/how-enable-time-machine-backup-network-disk <div class="image-attach-teaser image-attach-node-14" style="width: 100px;"><a href="/content/how-enable-time-machine-backup-network-disk"><img src="http://adamantsys.com/sites/default/files/images/time-machine.thumbnail.jpg" alt="Time Machine with remote disk" title="Time Machine with remote disk" class="image image-thumbnail " width="100" height="66" /></a></div> <p>Easy. Just follow these steps:</p> <ol> <li>Obviously you need another Mac to which you want to backup to, with the disk formatted as Mac OS Extended Journaled.</li> <li>Open Terminal from Mac you want to backup from. Issue command</li> <pre> sudo defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1</pre><li>Open System Preferences → Time Machine. Click Change Disk. Your network disk should appear now.</li> <li>Select it, and you are good to go.</li> </ol> Leopard OS X Snow Leopard Tips Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:00:00 +0000 nuzrin 15 at http://adamantsys.com ATSServer and mdworker consuming significantly huge amount of CPU resources http://adamantsys.com/content/atsserver-and-mdworker-consuming-significantly-huge-amount-cpu-resources <p>My Mac have 4-core 3.0 GHz CPU with 4 GB RAM, yet this past week or so it seems to slow down to a crawl. Switching applications become sluggish, Dashboard taking its own sweet time to appear, and the CPU meter is constantly showing 100% usage in two of the core.</p> <p><a href="http://adamantsys.com/content/atsserver-and-mdworker-consuming-significantly-huge-amount-cpu-resources" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Leopard Mac OS X Snow Leopard Tips Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:00:00 +0000 nuzrin 22 at http://adamantsys.com