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How to back up to an external hard drive using rsync

by mattaspeake / On July 12, 2020 / In Miscellaneous

Recently I've been getting myself more organised and focused with my business, and part of that process made me want to have a reliable back-up procedure in place for the work I do in creating my online courses. My case is that I have: a "master" folder on Dropbox in which I put all of my online business resources a "backup" folder on an external hard disk drive to which I want to replicate the...

How to check which service is running on a particular port

by mattaspeake / On June 26, 2018 / In Miscellaneous

I use MAMP for developing the Zention website locally (it's an awesome platform which contains the Apache, MySQL and PHP stack which runs on Mac - check it out if you haven't already!). Anyway, I wanted to hook up SquirrelSQL (my favourite JDBC client) so I could do some development work against the database for the website, but I wasn't sure of the port MySQL was using (it wasn't 3306 which is...

Reusing a private SSH key on another Mac

by mattaspeake / On June 25, 2018 / In Miscellaneous

I recently had to access a Git repo which was hosted on Bitbucket on another workstation. Rather than create a new private SSH key, I did the following instead: Create the ~/.ssh directory (it's not there by default on a Mac so don't worry!) Transfer the SSH key to the other machine (I emailed it which is fine) Copy the SSH key to the directory and set the permissions Register the key to the SSH...