A couple of days ago I found Forklift a Finder replacment. The main thing that caught my attention is the dual pane interface that I was missing from my Total Commander days. Yes I'm a switcher.

In the last few weeks when booting my MacBookPro I've had it display a folder icon with a question mark in it. Now I don't know what that means, but it got me on my toes about getting a proper backup solution up and running. This is especially important as the MBP is my one and only work computer. Since I recently bought myself a QNAP TS-409Pro and have it running with 4 750GB hard disc in a RAID 5, I thought that'd be the perfect place for my backup. It's where the backup was before but I had to remeber to copy it there via the Finder. I knew the QNAP has rsync support. While googling for a rsync backup script or HOWTO, I stumbled upon rdiff-backup. A quick check in the ipkg package list turned up rdiff-backup and a MacPorts version is available as well.

So here is the install guide to get you going.