Taking MAMP More Seriously

This is the last draw. I am going to start using MAMP’s local web server solution seriously this time around.

It all started when I decided to upgrade to Leopard. I backed up everything else except for the MySQL database files that don’t exist in the

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~/user_name/

directory. So in upgrading to Leopard, I also blew away all of those development databases I was using for clients — great, now I’ll have to go through the motion of having to repopulate those databases manually…

The only gripe I have with MAMP is that it literally forces all the development files to uncharacteristically reside in the

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/Applications/

folder. I suppose I could move them somewhere else. But I just don’t have the time to deal with customizing it otherwise.

So from now on, literally everything that matters will be within the two places that I back up

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/Applications/
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~/user_name/

I also forgot to save my Addessbook contacts. But thank heavens the address content reside in

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~/user_name/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/

so I was able to recover them. But even if that failed, I had all my contacts sync’d to my Plaxo account using its free sync utility for the Mac OSX.

Lessons learned:

1. Backing up files and upgrading to a new OS when one is really tired is not good.
2. If unsure, backup EVERYTHING.