How to Backup or Save Your iPhone Notes

Want to have an easy way of backing up your notes from your iPhone 2.0 or 2.2.1 or any firmware prior to 3.0? Unfortunately, iTunes does not allow you to backup any of your notes you have saved to your iPhone unless you upgrade to the new 3.0 firmware. If you do not want to upgrade your firmware, but still want to have your notes saved, rather than transcribing potentially many many sticky notes, you can use this simple application instead.


It's a little app called  iPhoneNotes. All you have to do is download the file, launch the installer, copy the application to your Applications folder. Now whenever you want to backup your notes from your iPhone, just launch the application first, and then connect your iPhone via USB and the iPhoneNotes will instantly recognize all of your notes.

The application will allow you to choose where you want to save your note files. You can also restore previously saved notes and put them back on your iPhone.

*Note, this application requires OpenSSH installed on a jailbroken iPhone.

Speed up Apple Time Capsule

I recently purchased a 1 TB Time Capsule and was very excited to get home to hook it up. After the initial set up, which didn't go as smoothly as every other Apple product I've set up, I was extremely disappointed with the slow file transfer and constant disconnects I was encountering. I couldn't even stream my iTunes library (which is why I got it).

Here are some tweaks I've done:

• Reduce Interference:
• Connect the Time Capsule directly to your router with a LAN cable, then log into it via the Airport utility. Click on the manual set up button, then the wireless tab to disable wireless and give her a reboot. When the Time Capsule restarts it should now say "Wired" in the connection status. - Please note, I live in an apartment with 20 or so wireless networks around me, which was causing major interference. After hard wiring the Time Capsule I no longer have drop outs.
• Rename your Time Capsule to a single word, mine is named Tera. Don't use weird symbols either, straight up letters and numbers here folks.
• Speed her up!
• Disable searchlight indexing. Go into system preferences, spotlight, privacy and add your time capsule to the list "Prevent Spolight from Searching these Locations"
• Following suite, I removed the Time capsule from Quicksilver's catalog - before I did this Quicksilver would crash or freeze when I tried to use it when my Time Capsule was connected, now I can use both in harmony

After performing all my tweaks, I can now stream iTunes music and videos and quickly update my iPhone and iPods! I haven't had any disconnects either.

Please post any other tweaks to the comments.

How to Backup Your Windows Files and Folders

This article describes how to use Backup Utility for Windows (included with Windows XP) to back up files and folders on your computer.

The Backup tool in Windows XP helps you protect your data in case your hard disk fails or files are accidentally erased. By using Backup, you can create a duplicate copy of all of the data on your hard disk and then archive it on another storage device, such as a hard disk or a tape.

If the original data on your hard disk is accidentally erased or overwritten, or becomes inaccessible because of a hard-disk malfunction, you can easily restore the data from the disk or archived copy by using the Restore Wizard or Automated System Recovery Wizard.

Note: You must have permissions as an administrator or a backup operator on your computer to back up files and folders. Also, backup operators and administrators can back up and restore encrypted files and folders without decrypting the files or folders.

Click Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Backup. The Backup or Restore Wizard starts.

Click Advanced Mode.

Click the Backup tab.

On the Job menu, click New.

Select the check boxes for the drives that you want to back up. If you want to be more specific in your selections, expand the drive that you want, and then click the check boxes for the files or folders that you want.

Select the System State check box.

Note: If you want to back up your system settings as well as your data files, you should back up all the data on your computer plus the System State data, which includes such things as the registry, the COM+ class registration database, files under Windows File Protection, and boot files.

In the Backup destination list, click the backup destination that you want to use.

If you clicked File in the previous step, type the full path and file name that you want in the Backup media or file name box. Note that you can also specify a network share as a destination for the backup file.

Click Start Backup. The Backup Job Information dialog box appears.

Under If the media already contains backups, use one of the following steps:

If you want to append this backup to previous backups, click Append this backup to the media.

If you want to overwrite previous backups with this backup, click Replace the data on the media with this backup.

Click Advanced.

Select the Verify data after backup check box.

In the Backup Type box, click the type of backup that you want. When you click a backup type, a description of that backup type is displayed under "Description."

Click OK, and then click Start Backup. A Backup Progress dialog box appears, and the backup starts.

When the backup is complete, click Close.

How to Backup IMAC With Easy Steps Through Time Machine

1. Turn on Time Machine.
The first time you connect the external hard drive to your Mac, Time Machine will ask if you’d like to use it for backups.

Click Use as Backup Disk and System Preferences will open to display Time Machine preferences.

From now on, Time Machine will do the rest; your first backup will begin automatically in a few minutes.

2. Exclude some items to conserve disk space.
What if you don't want to back up everything on your computer? For example, you might want to exclude your Applications folder from backups, and just reinstall apps from their original CDs if you drive kicks the bucket or if you upgrade later. Click the Options button in the Time Machine preferences window and add files and folders to the "Do not back up" list by clicking the + (plus sign) button. To exclude your Applications folder, select your Mac's hard drive, then the Applications folder, and click Exclude.

If you change your mind later, you can always remove items from this list by clicking the - (minus) button, and those items will be included in the next backup.

When your first Time Machine backup starts, a new window appears on your desktop to let you know things are going. You can close System Preferences now; it won't affect the backup.

4. Ready, Set, Wait
Expect the first backup to take a long time since everything on your Mac is being copied. After the first backup, Time Machine will automatically back up incremental changes to your files every hour for as long as you leave the backup drive connected to your Mac. Future backups will only copy files that are new or have changed, so they'll take less time.

In Time Machine's preferences window, you’ll see the option to show Time Machine's status in the menu bar. Time Machine’s menu bar icon lets you access Time Machine preferences and perform backups any time you want, so you don’t have to wait to back up important files.

How to backup System State only in Windows Server 2008

Ntbackup is deprecated in Windows Server 2008"coded name Longhorn" and is replaced by Windows Server Backup.

To backup the System State in Windows Server 2008, you have to use the command line "WBADMIN"

The exact command like this:

C:\>WBADMIN START SYSTEMSTATEBACKUP -backuptarget:E:

Click "Y" to start the backup

How to Get Active Directory Back-up, System State Backup Through NTBACKUP

Method #1: Using NTBACKUP

1. Open NTBACKUP by either going to Run, then NTBACKUP and pressing Enter or by going to Start -> Accessories -> System Tools.
2. If you are prompted by the Backup or Restore Wizard, I suggest you un-check the "Always Start in Wizard Mode" checkbox, and click on the Advanced Mode link.



3. Inside NTBACKUP's main window, click on the Backup tab.



4. Click to select the System State checkbox. Note you cannot manually select components of the System State backup. It's all or nothing.
5. Enter a backup path for the BKF file. If you're using a tape device, make sure NTBACKUP is aware and properly configured to use it.



6. Press Start Backup.
7. The Backup Job Information pops out, allowing you to configure a scheduled backup job and other settings. For the System State backup, do not change any of the other settings except the schedule, if so desired. When done, press Start Backup.



8. After a few moments of configuration tasks, NTBACKUP will begin the backup job.



9. When the backup is complete, review the output and close NTBACKUP.



Next, you need to properly label and secure the backup file/tape and if possible, store a copy of it on a remote and secure location.

How to Backup Active Directory | Domain Controller On Windows 2003 Using NTBACKUP

Using NTBACKUP

1. Open NTBACKUP by either going to Run, then NTBACKUP and pressing Enter or by going to Start -> Accessories -> System Tools.
2. If you are prompted by the Backup or Restore Wizard, I suggest you un-check the "Always Start in Wizard Mode" checkbox, and click on the Advanced Mode link.



3. Inside NTBACKUP's main window, click on the Backup tab.



4. Click to select the System State checkbox. Note you cannot manually select components of the System State backup. It's all or nothing.
5. Enter a backup path for the BKF file. If you're using a tape device, make sure NTBACKUP is aware and properly configured to use it.



6. Press Start Backup.
7. The Backup Job Information pops out, allowing you to configure a scheduled backup job and other settings. For the System State backup, do not change any of the other settings except the schedule, if so desired. When done, press Start Backup.



8. After a few moments of configuration tasks, NTBACKUP will begin the backup job.



9. When the backup is complete, review the output and close NTBACKUP.



Next, you need to properly label and secure the backup file/tape and if possible, store a copy of it on a remote and secure location.

Method #2: Using the Command Prompt

You can use the command line version of NTBACKUP in order to perform backups from the Command Prompt.

For example, to create a backup job named "System State Backup Job" that backs up the System State data to the file D:\system_state_backup.bkf, type: