RAID and Backups
A recent Handler's Log on the SANS Internet Storm Center spoke of the recent demise of an early blog site called "Journalspace.com." Evidently their disaster recovery strategy consisted of maintaining...
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A crashed off-site RAID drive
Here are some more observations on using RAID on the Mac OS X, particularly in terms of off-site storage, terminology, and upgrading. Here is a photo of my former off-site hard drive: It's been sitting...
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RAID on Snow Leopard
I had avoided upgrading to Snow Leopard for several months, and finally completed the upgrade a few weeks ago. It went mostly without trouble, though there were a few minor things that needed to be...
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RAID Backups with Snow Leopard
[SEE UPDATE due to changes in a Snow Leopard patch]I've finally completed a whole RAID 1 backup cycle with Snow Leopard and I can reliably report on how it works.The process, when performed reliably,...
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Grumble, grumble.There has been an update to the DiskUtil program that prevents my RAID backup procedure from working.The version I am running - Version 11.5.2 (298.4) - no longer provides a "Remove"...
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OS X Lion: No encrypted RAID after all
I installed Lion last night and spent today figuring out what does - and does not - work. As a huge fan of full-disk encryption (FDE), I'm disappointed in their drive encryption.RAID may have been...
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My Revised Backup Mechanism
I've posted a lot of now-obsolete descriptions of how I used RAID to do multiple off-site backups of my computer. Originally my process was built around my now-obsolete Mac Pro computer with its rack...
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