OS X Server :: Backup And Data Consolidation Solutions
Apr 9, 2008
In what's become a yearly release, I have officially released the fifth edition of the Apple Enterprise Backup Solutions paper. If you are unfamiliar with the document, it is a free paper that will help you find the right backup solution for your environment, outlining various backup techniques, software solutions and data consolidation solutions. This document has been referenced in numerous webcasts and online publications. If you've read the previous releases, much of this will seem similar. The main update in this paper is a complete review of the PresSTORE 3 solution. You can find a link to the document and its mirror at: [URL]
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May 20, 2007
If you have a server, you need a good backup solution. I'd like to invite you all to download a copy of my newest installment of Apple Enterprise Backup Solutions, that includes some great tips and tricks on how to consolidate your data, rotate your media and which software packages and tools may work best in your environment. You can get the latest document on my website at: [URL]. I hope you find it helpful in keeping your data safe!
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Nov 9, 2010
I just watched this: [URL] and really liked the idea (having a hard drive dock, and just a lot of OEM drives with all your stuff). I live in the UK, and Maplin sells some SATA docks, but they're all USB. Ao you know of any firewire 800 solutions? (Google didn't help) or any alternatives?
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Aug 14, 2010
I just sighed up for a iDrive account and it's looking good so far, what are others here using for online back up?
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May 24, 2010
It's time for me to look into serious back up solutions for a Mac Pro dual boot. I had good backup solutions in the past, but this set up is different. I now have two Mac drives (system and storage), the Windows partition on Mac system drive, and one Windows storage drive (total 3 physical, 4 virtual). Physical system drive is 240GB split down the middle. Mac storage drive is 1TB, and XP storage drive is 500MB. I keep reading about robotic backup systems like Drobo, but I'm wondering what the advantages are over simply getting matched drives and mirroring them. (Other than the fact that I don't have to worry about drive sizes I mean).
It seems to me the big selling point on these gadgets is the "set it and forget it" aspect. I've used mirrored drives in the past, and don't recall ever having to pay any attention to them, no extra software settings. Share them, don't share them, whatever. That, and they update on the fly. Every time I write to the primary drive, the redundant drive is instantly updated to match it. What am I not getting? These "robotic" backups just seem to me to be nothing more than SATA drive racks with a lot of blinking lights I don't really need (I pay attention to my storage capacity. I know when it's getting full long before the lights come on), and software that does stuff the system can already do.
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May 26, 2010
So my sister's girlfriend is a professional photographer. Her former consultant get her an SCSI 68-pin connected Sony StorMaster tape drive that backs up her 3 big NAS drives with all her work via EMC Retrospect. This was on a PowerMac G5 tower with an SCSI 68-pin card installed. She's moving and has tasked me with getting it all up and running again at her new place since she's fallen out with the old consultant (who did some weird, weird stuff with their network - why are there 3 switches for the NAS? Why does the Airport run through two of them? WTF?) and got an iMac 27" i7.
Now, problem is, obviously that her i7 has no way of plugging into that SCSI tape drive. She's been using her G5 purely to run Retrospect which is a waste of space and energy. Plus she's moving to a much smaller space, so I really, really want to get it out of there. So here's the thing - I CANNOT find a 68-pin SCSI to USB adapter other than one by Ratoc, which apparently only lets the tape drive function in "mass storage mode" which doesn't really tell me if it will work with Retrospect or not. Is there another solution to keep the current tape drive and plug it into the iMac?
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Apr 16, 2012
I have 1 tb data drive on server for student files but only using 40gb and says out of space. I cannot figure out where the space is located.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 1, 2012
I don't understand how it happened, but a school I work with has had the SUS rip through 80Gig in a few days (Snow Leopard Server 10.6.8). Same as with my home server (Lion Server 10.7.3).
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Mar 24, 2012
When i try to backup data or transfer large amounts of data, like 40gb or more, between drives, the process just stops without warning or explanation. It dowsn't matter when backup i use, Time Machine or WD Smartware.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Feb 10, 2012
iTunes sees calendars we have set up in the office (those being shared, coming from iCal Server - Lion), but it will not sync that data to our iphones. I tried this at home where I have my personal computer's client iCal app get calendar data from our work server. It won't sync that either, though iTunes does see (in the sync list) the calendars.
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Nov 30, 2014
I know it says the consolidation feature can't be undone,but I thought it was to consolidate songs to an unknown album,not consolidate all unknown albums.I need this turned off.
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Hard drive, iOS 8.1
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Dec 28, 2009
My wife and I recently purchased our third Mac system (iMac). She is an aspiring photographer. We have our oldest family pictures (most in iphoto) being moved to the IMac from our Mac Mini and also her DSLR photos from our Macbook to the IMac as well. (she uses lightroom/photoshop). The problem we are running into is we have probably about 100GB in photos and I know there are many duplicates. The problem is the pictures are mixed formats (jpeg and raw) and some are the originals and some are edited. I'd like to get some sort of program(s) that could remove duplicates (if there is a dup in JPG and RAW, I'd like to keep the raw) and maybe group (its asking alot, I know) up the edited photos.
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Sep 12, 2007
Do you know some software to make a easy backup of my Mac Os X Server 10.4.10 cyrus user email.I will reinstall the system in a couple of days so I want to know how I cant copier my users email stock.
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Aug 25, 2009
I have a 500gb HDD coming from newegg for my new 13" MBP. I know how to take it apart and all that, but my question is how do I 'clone' the drive to get it from the stock drive to the new HDD? I have a 160gb external drive, could I use this as a time machine backup and then pop the new drive in, install leopard from the DVDs that came with my mac, and then restore time machine backup?
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May 19, 2012
I recently went into the Apple store looking for a way to perform a backup of data on my MacBook. Their solution was that with a MAC it was not really necessary. However, if I really felt that I needed to backup data, consider using ICLOUD. I do not see how to do this on my MacBook. Can I have some more detail regarding backup of my data. I want to back up Excel files, bank statements, etc.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5)
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Jun 26, 2012
I don't know what iCloud is about and I was wondering if now that I have upgraded to it, can I back up my mac on icloud? My Time machine pooped out on me so it would be great if I could back up on the cloud.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jul 6, 2012
I put all my movies I purchased onto the iCloud and now I have only 2.5 GB left on my harddrive. Is it safe to delete the movies off my iTunes or should I move them instead?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Aug 31, 2010
The hard drive on my old Power Mac G4 recently failed and I lost all my data. I have I backup of my Tiger installation, but no way to restore it - I have no other Mac computers, just Windows ones. I also don't have any OS X installation discs. Is there any way I could format and restore the files to my hard drive from Windows?
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Sep 8, 2009
Older G4 desktop is getting old and tricky to start up so I figure it is a good idea to back up everything quickly in case it bites the dust.
Want to back up (and update that back up regularly) all data, including my email messages and mail organisation.
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Dec 2, 2010
I just bought two 2 TB Hitachi's. One I will use for all of my data and the other one for backup. (my main drive is an SSD) Can someone suggest the best solution as to how to configure the backup drive? Should I set it up RAID-1 so it will always mirror the other drive? Or, should I set it up to run a nightly clone using Data Backup 3.0?
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Mar 20, 2012
I have a Macbook Pro Late 2008 Model and have both my Iphone and iPad synced to it.I intend to save all my data from the macbook to a Time Machine and then sell my macbook as I intend to buy a new one this July.
1) would I be able to retrieve all my settings and data from the Time Machine to my new Macbook.
2) Would my iPhone and iPad Sync with the new macbook or would I need to set up a new sync ? I am hoping once I am able to retrieve all my settings and data from Time Machine to the New Macbook both my iPhone and iPad would be able to sync without requiring the need for a new sync setup .
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 26, 2012
I want to backup the data from iBank to iCloud, but haven't figured out how.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Feb 11, 2009
After a catastrophic HD crash I bought a small 250GB external hard-drive an started to use Time machine. Since my Mac was freshly formatted, I tend to keep it tidy and clean and keep good track of what comes in. I noticed my time machine backing up 15 GB of data which allegedly would have been added within two days. I could absolutely not trace this on my computer nor when I compared current folder contents with the most recent backup. Downloads, Apps., System are all excluded from my time-machine and couldn't represent such a dramatic data increase on my separate HD.
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May 22, 2009
I'm looking for a fast USB thumb drive to use for data backups. Does anyone know of any SLC USB thumb drives that are 32 GB or larger in capacity?
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Oct 6, 2009
I'm doing an initial backup to a Time Capsule and I want to make sure all my data was copied successfully. Does Time Machine verify that the data was copied successfully or does it just send it and hope everything copied alright? I know this is the kind of question only the Apple developers would know for certain, but hey, sometimes folks on these forums are surprisingly knowledgeable so I figured I'd ask here.
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May 24, 2012
can iCloud be used as a backup for iBank data?
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Jun 9, 2012
Do you have to back up your data before a software update on a macbook pro
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MacBook Pro
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Jun 9, 2012
How do I use the document and data of i-Cloud as backup of my i-Disk. I would like to move i-Disk stuff to that. Also, is it like i-Disk in that is is seperate from the computer (in a cloud as it were)?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Mar 11, 2008
Anyone know where I can find a complete list of known outstanding issues / faults / 'features' of a Mac Pro / iMac?
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Mar 13, 2009
I'm getting a new macbook. Currently I use time machine as a backup tool and was wondering if I should use it to transfer all my data to the new mac. One benefit of a new harddrive is the fresh install without all the junk that has built up over the years right? So wouldn't time machine just be transferring all the junk and stuff I want to the new mac? or is time machine smarter than this.
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