On 13/08/2011, at 3:12 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal backup.
my life is on a 13" macbook air, all data, mail back decades (i do not save all mail), etc. the whole drive is encrypted, my main reason for moving to lion.
i have two time machine drives, one at home and one i carry on the road. both are encrypted.
belt and braces, i also use unison to sync my laptop's home data to a server in colo. it goes to a freebsd geli, i.e. encrypted, partition.
all keys and other critical private data are in a text file on my laptop encrypted with gpg, which i use emacs crypt++ to access. that key file, a bunch of x.509 certs, ... are copied to an ironkey usb.
randy
I found the "mobile account/portable home directory" feature in os x server to be very useful for wife and kids (powerbooks). They get backed up and don't realize. If they crash a drive or if i upgrade a machine I just log them back in and resynch the machine. no more lost homework. jy