March 29, 2021

Dissecting Your Backups

1 hour 19 minutes

What better way to celebrate World Backup Day than to have your two favorite geeks pick apart their personal backup strategies? We can't think of one, so that means you get to listen as John and Dave spend a little time sharing and analyzing their backup strategies, and sharing some of yours, as well. Of course, it's Mac Geek Gab, so that means there will be some tips, Cool Stuff Found, and your questions answered! Press play and enjoy learning at least five new things.

Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 863 for Monday, March 29, 2021

Quick Tips

00:01:43 QT-Andrew-Reset Sound Level on iMac

Tozo T10 IPX8 Bluetooth Earbuds

sudo killall coreaudiod

How to Fix Sound Not Working on a Mac

00:03:37 Lew-QT-Disable Wi-Fi before creating Clones*

00:06:00 QT-Gary-Charging Tip

00:07:28 Ben-QT-Reset User Permission on Catalina and Big Sur

diskutil resetUserPermissions / `id -u`

Past Episode Follow-ups!

00:09:20 Tim-862-Set Default Output for Apple TV*

00:10:59 Steve-862-Booting M1 from External Isn’t As Easy As You Think

00:14:22 Mike-861-Keyboard Maestro to Command-E Eject

00:15:37 Clif-861-Google Backup and Photos Library

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00:22:14 Dissecting Your Geeks’ Backups for World Backup Day, March 31st

Time Machine to Synology

Carbon Copy Cloner to Local External Drive

TimeMachineEditor

Synology C2

Arq Backup

Envoy Pro EX

Glyph Atom RAID SSD

Your Tips, Follow-ups, and Questions

00:40:27 David-Big Sur Off-Center Icons

00:44:29 Andrew-Benefits of APFS for Time Machine*

00:46:04 Chris-Desktop File Info Update?*

Desktop Curtain

00:49:48 David-Using Multiple Microphones in Zoom*

00:54:40 Fixing John’s audio

00:55:29 Joy-Shared Contacts Data Google/macOS?

Contacts Sync

BusyContacts

Cool Stuff Found

01:04:08 Stefan-CSF-Arq adds Immutable Backup Feature for Ransomware Protection

01:05:21 Immutable vs. Non-Fungible

01:05:47 Simon-CSF-Embedded MagSafe Charger

Thingiverse

01:09:00 Using Safari’s Tab Groups

01:10:20 CSF-Solo Ludlow Universal Tablet Sling*

01:12:15 SXSW-Space Explorers: The ISS Experience

01:13:50 More Online Conferences Happening

01:14:40 MGG 863 Outtro

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