Pile of Dross

So I think my iBook may be having hardware issues, Leopard installs dumped out at various points. After reboots its had difficulty finding the airport and the sound device from time to time, and I’m pretty sure that some of the sizes reported by files are wrong (Anyone else’s /Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins/Quartz Composer Visualiser.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Quart Composer Visualizer ~150GB in size?).

My XBox 360 has been locking up on occasion.

And my hot water tank appears to have sprung a leak.

Bah.

• It won’t do automated backups if the power cord isn’t plugged in or the disk isn’t mounted
• Its picky about mount points, so if you’ve switched from wired to wireless (or vice versa) with out unmounting, check that the backup disk is mounted in the expected directory under /Volumes
• sudo lsof -p gives some idea of what its actually poking at
• backupd-helper can be run from a terminal to force a backup now if your Time Machine dock icon doesn’t seem to do anything

Oh and complete unrelated (because I’m not using the unsupported network backup feature, not at all, whatever gave you that idea) netatalk on debian doesn’t work with Leopard, as Leopard is picky about the authentication.