Less than a month ago, Apple released service pack 3 to Snow Leopard – i.e., 10.6.3. A few days after that they released 10.6.3.1 which was apparently only needed in a few instances, but I downloaded and applied anyway due to some irregularities I’d noticed with my OS after installing the vanilla 10.6.3.
It’s recently occurred [...]
While initially I had some success with Snow Leopard and Mac OS X, I’m increasingly finding that it’s just boiling down to being too random for reliable backups. So far problems mainly seem to occur after a machine has gone to sleep and woken up multiple times – or had its network location changed multiple [...]
While still not appearing on the NetWorker compatibility lists, it would certainly appear from testing that NetWorker 7.6 plays a whole lot nicer with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) better than its predecessors did.
Previously when Snow Leopard came out, I posted that NetWorker 7.5 was able to work with it, but did qualify that [...]
When Snow Leopard first came out, I was reasonably impressed with how easily NetWorker continued to operate with it – and for desktop users and administrators of fixed-location servers, that should remain the case.
For laptop users though, it’s turning out to be slightly different story. My ongoing experience now is that if I switch locations [...]
I was rather pleased this morning to have a friendly FedEx courier drop off Mac OS X 10.6 – Snow Leopard.
Of course, my first thought was “will this work with NetWorker?”
I’m pleased to report – yes, yes it does. All of the following worked for me using NetWorker 7.5.1:
Recoveries from prior to the upgrade
Backups following [...]