After six years of developing mass deployment solutions for Mac OS X, I have decided to reprioritize my time and focus all of my development efforts on Carbon Copy Cloner. Read the full story here.

After a brief, logistical absence, BootPicker can now be downloaded from Apple's Education Resources web page.

Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it. Try it 'til you trust it.

Built on the latest synchronization technology available, CCC version 3.1 delivers a high fidelity backup of your data. With performance enhancements and the new "bootability" verification, it's now faster and easier than ever to create an up-to-date, bootable backup of your Macintosh.

New in Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1:

• Implemented rsync 3.0.0 to provide even greater fidelity when backing up using the "Incremental backup of selected items" backup method
• Improved the wording of options in the interface to make it more clear what CCC is doing
• Implemented "bootability" verification -- CCC now reports whether the backup volume will be bootable based upon the options you have chosen
• Several minor enhancements and bug fixes

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Understanding the content of the DHCP and BSDP communication between NetBoot servers and NetBoot clients can provide excellent insight for troubleshooting the NetBoot process. In this article I explain the components of a typical DHCP packet, dig deeper into the vendor options and BSDP-specific options, then I describe the NetBoot process from the NetBoot server perspective.

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