Yes, thanks Joe I currently have a mix of WD and LaCie and I¹m also looking to have some ³cloud² back-up/synch for more critical stuff.
Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 13/12/09 7:22 PM, Joe Mastrella at joey.pots.p...@gmail.com wrote: > Greetings! > If you are using or are planning to use multiple external HD make sure to > purchase HDs from different manufactures. Our club in California suggested to > our members that two external HD backups was three times as safe. Some of our > members purchased Western Digital (WD) HDs. Unfortunately WD had a batch > (large amount) of faulty drives shipped to the western US. You can see where > this is leading. I keep a 64 MG flash drive for very important backups of > files generated that day. Our data is important to us, be it photos, video, > music or documents. When you lose a terabite HD, It's a traumatic experience. > Be careful how you configure your back up strategies. > > Cheers, Joe > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Dark1 <da...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >> >> Hi Neil >> >> There shouldn't be any problems running Office with rosetta. Generally most >> apps run fine in SL with the exception of a few niche ones. In terms of your >> backup system I'd advise you to get another hard drive (quiet cheap these >> days) rather than running with partitions because if your HD has a mechanical >> failure you'll lose all the data on every partition unless your prepared to >> pay vast amounts of money to have it fixed. >> >> There are lots of SL updates available so you should check for them on any >> app that you have trouble running. >> >> I don't think there's any real benefit in having EyeTV recordings on a >> separate partition since you can backup specific folders or, in the case of >> Time Machine, omit your EyeTV folder from backups. >> >> In terms of running your apps from a separate partition they should function >> fine but you'll lose a bit of performance since your HD will have to read >> from 2 separate locations on the disk to access the Apps and your system >> files. You could always add a "10.5 Apps" folder to your Applications folder >> and copy your old apps across there then move them out as you get them >> working with SL. >> >> Hope this helps a bit >> Ruben >> >>> > >>> > Hi all, >>> > >>> > I just got a new 27"iMac i7 (Merry Xmas to me!) and The first question >>> from >>> > she-who-must-be-obeyed was "why do you need a new one - the old one is >>> only >>> > 2 years old - what are you going to do with it?!" >>> > >>> > Peace and harmony was restored when I pointed out that the old windows >>> > machine that her Mum uses was so slow you kept thinking the thing had >>> > crashed and how nice it would be to pass on the nice shiny 24" iMac to her >>> > (coincidentally it would also be nice to have access to a nice Mac when we >>> > visit her in Perth - which we do fairly frequently). >>> > >>> > So far, so good. However the new machine obviously came with SL and not >>> all >>> > my software is SL compatible, also after many successive migrations and >>> > system upgrades I decided it would be nice to set-up SL slowly from >>> scratch >>> > with regard to applications and user data (rather than just migrate >>> > everything from the old machine to the new machine). >>> > >>> > I am also wanting to re-organise my document/data filing sustem as I >>> intend >>> > to incorporate some form of cloud back-up/synchronisation using something >>> > like iDisk or Dropbox (or both) as both an extra layer of back-up >>> redundancy >>> > and as a convenient way of keeping some data synched between my desktop & >>> > laptop computer. >>> > >>> > I thought I had come up with a good plan - since the new machine had a >>> > whopping 1TB HD, I would partition the HD in 3: >>> > - Partition 1 with a nice fresh SL installation. >>> > - Partition 2 with a clone of my current 24" iMac HD >>> > - Partition 3 (I just want my EyeTV recordings and video on an extra >>> > partition to suit my back-up regime) >>> > >>> > As I saw it, I could then pass the 24"iMac on to the mother-in-law (as >>> > everything was now on partition 2 of the 27" iMac) and slowly set-up the >>> SL >>> > partition as I wanted it, whilst still being able to boot-up the 27" from >>> > partition 2 (running 10.5.8) and essentially have all my apps and settings >>> > just as they were on the 24" without any worry as to what was SL >>> compliant. >>> > >>> > Now, many of the gurus out there will have already spotted the fatal flaw >>> in >>> > my strategy - it appears that I can't actually boot up the new iMac in >>> > Leopard! - it seems to require SL! >>> > >>> > I have now passed on the bad news that I will need to hang onto the old >>> > machine for a while longer until I am happy that everything I need is SL >>> > compliant, or upgraded, or substituted - in general I do not foresee too >>> > much of a problem - I am happy with the move to SL and happy to upgrade >>> > programs such as Parallels & Reunion - my main bugbear will be MS Office >>> > where I have not upgraded from Office 2004 to Office 2008 because MS >>> killed >>> > off VBA and I use quite a few macros. >>> > >>> > However, to get to the point (finally, I hear you say!) what I was >>> wondering >>> > was how will everything go if I boot up in SL (partition 1) and attempt to >>> > run my old applications from their current location in the applications >>> > folder on partition 2 (the cloned Leopard folder) - this would only be an >>> > interim thing - as I confirmed that things ran OK under SL (with Rosetta >>> if >>> > necessary) I would then install the apps in their correct location (the >>> apps >>> > folder on partition 1). >>> > >>> > The idea would be that everything I wanted/needed would be gradually >>> > transferred from partition 2 to partition 1 (in the case of >>> data/documents) >>> > or installed on partition 1 and then deleted from partition 2 (in the case >>> > of applications) and any old/obsolete stuff just deleted from partition 2. >>> > >>> > I would obviously set up the new SL installation with the same accounts as >>> > the old Leopard installation - to minimise any permissions problems with >>> > accessing the old user folders on partition 2 >>> > >>> > When everything is off partition 2 I would clean/erase it and use it as a >>> > second media partition. >>> > >>> > However, I am aware that OSX can be a bit picky with where you put certain >>> > things - so I was wondering if I was likely to run into any particular >>> > problems in the interim as I gradually move stuff of the old partition to >>> > the new one? >>> > -- >>> > Neil R. 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