{"id":294,"date":"2005-05-01T22:10:55","date_gmt":"2005-05-01T14:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2005\/05\/2005_05_01_2210.php"},"modified":"2005-05-01T22:10:55","modified_gmt":"2005-05-01T14:10:55","slug":"le-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/01\/le-tiger","title":{"rendered":"Le Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the process of taking the Tiger plunge. Right now I&#8217;m taking my time (better safe than sorry) backing everything up.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t know, Tiger is the latest build of OSX that has been getting all the hype recently &#8211; a Longhorn killer so to speak, but I would keep those sentiments on hold until Longhorn <em>actually<\/em> debuts.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, my main concern is retaining all my data since I&#8217;m planning to do a clean install. So I&#8217;m trying to list down (and backup) all folders and files that I may need.<\/p>\n<p>This post may be useful in the future when I plan to upgrade yet again. So I might as well list down the databases\/files I usually use.<\/p>\n<p>The easiest way is to backup your whole <code>~\/Library<\/code> folder (the <code>~<\/code> means <em>user directory<\/em>) Of course, you may have a bunch of MP3s there (your iTunes library), so I suggest backing that up <em>separately.<\/em> You may also want to backup <code>\/Library<\/code> (in the root directory) for good measure&#8230; you never know if and when you may need it.<\/p>\n<!--more-->\n<p>Anyways, if you back up your <code>~\/Library<\/code> folder, then you &#8220;should&#8221; be set (Applications, preferences etc. etc. should all be there) but I&#8217;m listing these down specifically for my sake.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MP3s and <strong>iTunes library database file!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Webdev folder(s)<\/li>\n<li>IM contact list<\/li>\n<li>RSS reader prefs (or at the very least, a <em>recently exported<\/em> OPML file)<\/li>\n<li>E-mail files<\/li>\n<li>Documents folders<\/li>\n<li>Browser favorites\/links<\/li>\n<li>FTP links\/prefs<\/li>\n<li>Applications (optional)<\/li>\n<li>Application preferences (optional usually in the <code>Library<\/code> folders)<\/li>\n<li>Photoshop actions\/plugins, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Fonts<\/li>\n<li><strong>NOTES!<\/strong> (stickeys, etc.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Local SQL DBs!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Apache Configurations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I can think of as of now. If you think I&#8217;ve missed something, feel free to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Changing the subject a little, I now <em>really<\/em> appreciate my iPod photo &#8211; especially that I got the 60GB version as it can be pretty handy for backing up stuff. I just reformatted, then enabled <code>disk mode<\/code> and am now dumping my whole <code>iTunes Library<\/code> folder (which has the songs and database) on it.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, the rest that need to be backed up won&#8217;t be too big, and I&#8217;ll just back them up in the PC via the network.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the process of taking the Tiger plunge. Right now I&#8217;m taking my time (better safe than sorry) backing everything up. For those of you who don&#8217;t know, Tiger is the latest build of OSX that has been getting all the hype recently &#8211; a Longhorn killer so to speak, but I would keep &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/01\/le-tiger\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Le Tiger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[96,860,1177],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-os-x","tag-tiger"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}