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New build released today, version 1.5.1 with an optimized log scanner, and fancy new installer window. Installed Watchman Client on my mom’s computer, and promptly received an issue notification. Mom’s computer hadn’t been backed up in 271 days.  I asked her about the Time Machine notifications, and she’s just been ignoring them. At this point, […]

Is monitoring needed? I just got done listening to Alan Gordon of the Humac Group, speaking at MacSysAdmin 2010.  His talk laid out some great reasons why to monitor your systems. Of course, as with so many monitoring systems, software packages assume ownership of the computers and their networks. Watchman Monitoring makes none of those […]

This project has grown by spurts and bounds since it’s inception:  a way to keep track of people’s backups. So often, clients come in to our office with a computer problem, and no idea of their last backup.  It gets old, asking the dreaded question: do you know when your last backup was? So often, […]