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Raid and Time Machine
I’ve configured three additional internal 500GB drives together with Raid 0 in disk utilities. I use the Raid as my Final Cut Storage solution. As a backup, I have a Western Digital 2TB Drive, that is also at Raid 0, that I use as a Time Machine backup for both the host drive and the internal Raid. It seems to work but i get an occasional Time Machine Error “unable to backup files” or something like that. But I can’t tell what’s going wrong if anything. My question is…Should this system work? It seems like a smart inexpensive solution to gain speed and redundancy without the high cost of Raid 5 systems. But I’m starting to wonder.
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I’d stay away from Time Machine and use SuperDuper!
Jeremy
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With out seeing the whole error message it’s hard to say, but my guess would be time machine is attempting to backup a file that is in use. The reason I suspect that is because you say it’s does not always happen.
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I use Time Machine for my system drive. I don’t think I would trust it for my media drives. It’s more meant for general consumer use. It’s also not very customizable.
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[John Pale] “I use Time Machine for my system drive. I don’t think I would trust it for my media drives. It’s more meant for general consumer use. It’s also not very customizable.”
I sort of feel the opposite. For system disks people have had trouble using it for a system restore. But for media you don’t have to worry about that. You can browse the Time Machine disk like any other and manually recover the files and folders.
Sean
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I would never recommend Time Machine for any RAID or any media drives. We had to try to recover media files once from it and it was a total disaster.
In fact, we don’t use Time Machine at all. I had to use it once to Restore my Mac HD and I ended up with many corrupted applications. We now use Carbon Cloner’s automatic daily backup for the Mac HD.
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[walter biscardi] “I would never recommend Time Machine for any RAID or any media drives. We had to try to recover media files once from it and it was a total disaster.”
Did you try to restore it, or did you browse the folders as if it were a regular backup disk?
Sean
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I have heard bad things about Time Machine and Compressor. I’d stay away.
SuperDuper has scheduling, and I used to love Carbon Copy Cloner.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “SuperDuper has scheduling, and I used to love Carbon Copy Cloner.”
Comparing those to Time Machine is sort of apples and oranges. Time Machine will automatically back up only the files that haven’t been backed up already.
Sean
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SuperDuper has a compare function (they call it Smart Update) which only moves over the new files. And if you are married to Time Machine, SuperDuper works along with it.
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Cool I’ll check it out. And no, I’m not married to Time Machine. In fact I’ve been living with my girlfriend for almost 7 years, so believe me when I say I’m not married to anything.
Sean
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