Recent Apple KB articles: Backing up; SMB Transfers; more

61645: Mac OS X: How to Back Up and Restore Your User Data and Files explains how to locate your files and data, create a backup (or archive), and restore files and data from the backup. Essentially, it describes how, after erasing and reinstalling OS X to a volume, you can boot in OS 9 and copy backup copies of home directories to the OS X volume and then return to OS X and recreate the users that go with those home directories.

61646: Mac OS X: About Improving SMB File Transfer Speed with cp or CpMac explains how you can enhance the file transfer rate when copying files between Mac OS X and a SMB file server volume, using Terminal and cp or CpMac (CpMac is included with Developer Tools).

75303: Xserve: Troubleshooting Authentication Issues While Attempting to Log in as root User explains how to reset and recreate authentication information for secure shell remote login.