Backing up Lion Mac Pro 3.1 drive
Looking into backing up Lion Mac Pro 3.1 drive / Lion, Recovery HD / disk assistant.
In Mac Pro I have Lion in drive bay 1 (297GB) and Windows 7 in bay 4 (465GB).
I use Windows Image backup to USB external drive partition and have Lion Time machined to second partition therein.
I have an unmounted (spare) 297 GB drive.
Question is: can I occasionally do complete Lion disk utility copy of Bay 1 to (spare) mounted in drive bay 2 which I
would remove and only ever use if Lion drive was damaged? Would it be a bootable duplicate of Lion and Recovery HD?
To get a Recovery HD on your "spare" 297GB drive, I think Apple expected you to use Lion Recovery Disk Assistant. If you have an existing Recovery HD on your Main Drive, this little program can create the semi-hidden partiton and copy the contents of your existing Recovery HD to another drive, such as an external drive:
Lion Recovery Disk Assistant
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But if the drive is really scrambled you may have to re-partition the whole drive; witch would erase every thing.
You could try using disk utility to copy the drive as a disk image:
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you could try carbon copy cloner
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or
Super Duper
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
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I noticed that my My Book Live is not shown on my Mac Pro Disk Utilities. I checked the drive it is powered on and the Network light is flashing. But no other Pc in my House has access to it. The problem is that iCloud does not copy all my songs to the cloud, and now since the file has failed, i can no longer access
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You can transfer the music purchased by your iTunes account from your iPod nano to your MacBook Pro by following the steps outlined in this article:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
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Mac Pro Bootcamp WIFI-driver immunity
So. Apparently OS X 10.10.1 and Windows 8.1 are fighting a war over my Network and Bluetooth Device (Broadcom) in my Mac Pro (late 2013). It's really the strangest thing. I have looked everywhere, tried everything and I still have no idea what's happening. Maybe you guys know what it could be.
I have installed Windows 8.1 on my Mac Pro with Bootcamp, installed the latest Bootcamp Drivers (via Bootcamp) and Windows seems to work just fine! After a reboot into Mac OS X 10.10.1 - it took quite some time to connect to our WIFI - and a reboot back into Windows (pressing alt at start up) Windows could not connect to our WIFI Network. The network showed up in the available networks list, but when i tried to connect to it, it just tried to connect for about 20 seconds and then promoting an "windows can't connect to that WIFI..." error. More over it only found something like 4 available networks, where there normally are about 40 (I live in crowded area).
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So after another boot into MacOSX and back into Windows the same thing happened AGAIN! Only saw something like 3-4 other Networks and couldn't connect to our WIFI.
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Please see the details below and thank you for your help. I asked the Geniuses at three different Apple Stores and got 3 different answers.
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http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=357&language=en
eSATA Extender Cable $25
http://www.newertech.com/products/esata_cable.phpI am looking for a 2TB external hard drive for my Mac Pro (Quad Core 3GHz) and have a question. The Mac Pro has a 500 GB internal boot drive and three internal 500 GB drives RAIDed into a single 1.5TB drive. I would use an external 2TB drive for backing up the 1.5TB daily with Apple's Backup and will use it for Time Machine when I install Leopard. The computer is used primarily for Final Cut Pro Studio.
Costco has a Western Digital external 2TB drive with Fire wire 800 (800mb/s) for $600 and a Western Digital external 1TB drive with eSATA (3000mb/s) for $300. Either way it's $600 for 2 TB. I would need to purchase an eSATA Extender Cable to utilize the two extra SATA ports found on the Mac Pro's logic board for $25.
*The question is*: Could I connect two of the 1TB eSATA drives with the eSATA Extender Cable and make them a single 2TB RAID with Apple's Disk Utility... and would you recommend doing that over getting the 2TB drive which is 1/4 the speed and the same price?
Please see the details below and thank you for your help. I asked the Geniuses at three different Apple Stores and got 3 different answers.
2TB - My Book Pro Edition II (Firewire 800) $600
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=341&language=en
1TB - My Book Home Edition (eSATA) $300
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=357&language=en
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Loud fan noise on mountain lion, Mac Pro early 2008
Hi there,
I've recently installed mountain lion 10.8.5 lon my Mac Pro , early 2008, 2,8 GHz, 24 gb ram, 2x ATI Radeon 2800 XT.
To give it a clean shot i clean installed it on a sep. Partition, no upgrade from my previous Snow Leopard.
The Machine usually works quiet, i've measured via Isat Menu:
exhaust fan: 681 rpm
HD/expansion: 1100 rpm
After running Mointain Lion, latest update version, i get a much louder fan noise than in snow leopard:
exhaust fan: 845-950 rpm
HD/expansion: 1500 - 1800 rpm
The activity monitor shows no significant CPU usage, only the kernal has over 90 threads constantly running.
I've heard that this is a known issue but it's never been resolved. SMC and PRAM reset did not work at all.
when i go back to snow leopard everything gets back to normal. Yosemite is even harder on fan noise than mountain lion
so i've rolled back to mountain lion.
Any idea ?
dezzono one here with the same problem on an early 2008 Mac Pro ?
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What external equipment can be used to back up mac pro. Like a case that has hot swappable hard drives or ssds. Powered by Thunderbolt.
Curt EwingFor the next Mac Pro? or current?
OS X is fussy about ejecting a drive safely first but Firewire, USB (2 and 3) as well as some eSATA (depends on the host controller).
Most don't hot swap SSDs.
There are drive docking stations for USB2/3 and eSATA.
Watch out for drives with their own bus powered.
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Wake from sleep OS X Lion - Mac Pro 2008
Sorry to post another question about sleep but I cant find my answer searching through the other questions. When my mac pro went to sleep on snow leopard, all was fine.
Since I've upgraded to Lion im having a problem, waited for the first patches and im still having a problem.
When i try to wake from sleep (clicking the mouse or hitting a key on the keyboard). The Mac Pro will start to wake, send the fan spinning at full pelt. If left to its own, after about a minute it will just go back to sleep and fail to wake.
There was a solution to this I found. When it starts to wake, I hit a key for the 2nd time and it wakes up fine. So its taking 2 inputs to wake correctly.
This is naturally causing me problems for the wake for ethernet access required for "back to my mac". The machine wont wake without the 2nd input.
suggestions? and yes i put the hard disks to sleep but i cant see this being anything to do with the problem. As my current solution would suggest its not them.Well nobody came up with a solution for me. So i thought I'd give it a go and clean it. I mean proper clean it, i got the mac tech docs of a torrent site and dismantled the thing. Took the graphics card out and took it apart, cleaned and dusted the hink sinks etc.. Did the same with the towers fan units (which i wouldn't recommened to anybody not confident with thier hands. Vacumed out what ever i could (i don't own a compressor but would have loved one for this job). Then put it all back together again.
All seems to working fine now. So what seemed like a problem with software was linked to the hardware starting up it would appear.
So i also did more more detailed liistening to the noise and it seemed to be coming from the graphics card more than the main tower fans (Nvidia 8800GT). I would advise cleaning the dust out of your machine if anybody has a simular problem.
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Dual boot Tiger on SL vs Lion Mac Pro?
My 2004 Power Mac G5 (running Tiger) is getting old and cranky (frequent fan cycling, failed FW800 port, etc.). It still works but I know a replacement is in the near future. The problem is I have one critical program that runs properly only in Tiger. (Take my word for it.)
My questions:
1. If I were to buy a new Mac Pro today (with Snow Leopard), I understand that I could create a dual boot Mac Pro with Tiger on a partitioned or dedicated drive (internal or external). Assuming this is true, are there any issues of which I should be aware when creating a dual boot Tiger Mac on a Snow Leopard machine?
2. Is there a good reason to believe that a Lion-equipped Mac Pro (presumed to be shipping later this year) will (or will not) support dual booting with a Tiger drive or partition? I realize we can't know for sure until these machines come out, but perhaps someone has some insights here.
Ultimately my question is, "For the purposes of creating a dual boot Mac with Tiger, should I buy the current Mac Pro with Snow Leopard now (while it is still available) or will it be safe to wait until the new Mac Pros (with Lion) come out?"you would need to find an earlier MacPro1,1 or 2,1 from 2006-7 to be able to boot Tiger. Minimum builds means new hardware will not boot from older versions of OS X.
Mac OS X build
You can find those Mac Pros for under $1K and they can run 10.4.7 thru 10.7.
Some even upgrade them with newest graphics card but then that limits it to 10.6.5+ and the old cards are dying and hard to find and don't really support 10.6.8 and beyond.
A new Mac before Lion ships makes sense unless you want to wait to see if there is a new Mac Pro in the pipeline but that would mean your software would need to run under 10.7 and could pose problems to even CS4/5 and other popular apps.
Too bad you can run 10.4 as if it was "Classic OS" the way OS 9 use to be, or in a standard VM and run other versions of OS X too.
Pick up a spare G5.
List WHAT it is that you need to run
Lion drops PowerPC support and code and even Rosetta will be gone.
OS X 10.7 Lion FAQ
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