I have a 12GB file on one machine (UFS file system), and I need to transfer it to another, same OS, same file system. SFTP halts at exactly 2^31 - 1 bytes into the transfer (the 2GB limit on some file ...

If you have a file or two you wish to remove from your Time Machine backups, you can do so right in the Time Machine interface. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

Knowing how to restore Mac files from a Time Machine backup is very important, offering a solution when a file is missing or a document has been changed in an unexpected way. Recovering files with ...

Virtualization is a widely used technology that allows users to run multiple operating systems, like Windows, Linux, etc., on a single physical machine. Virtual machines are the platforms or instances ...

If you need to restore hidden files using Time Machine you may run into some problems revealing them. Here are some methods for addressing this in OS X. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid ...

Virtual machine storage is a demanding business. Where once one app server equalled one physical server and the demands on storage were known and predictable, with virtual machines, storage I/O has ...

Recently I was setting up some Hyper-V virtual machines for a project that I am working on. For this particular project I needed a few virtual machines running Windows 7 and an older version of Office ...

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion makes a conceptual leap away from the Mac's original focus on opening apps to create files, launching a new task-centric interface borrowed from iOS. Lion apps can also auto save ...

Here's what I need to do:<BR><BR>1. Tar a bunch of directories (/etc, /usr)<BR>2. Copy the tars to another machine.<BR><BR>Neither machine is running Samba or NFS and installing them isn't an option ...