Interested to learn about your backup workflows?

i'd be curious to know how users back up their data.
i know there are plenty of soft/hardware specs involved, but what i'd be interested to know is how people handle the logistics and workflows in a world of exploding data volumes. the internal hdd will fill up quickly, bootable backups should be separate, yet another external hdd may be used for streaming, itunes content may need to be accessible from various engines through a hdd attached to aebs, aperture has its vault and raw its appetite for capacity, etc.
...and maybe i am paranoid, ten years ago, a burglar may probably not have taken albums with him but today, he will for sure take everything with an apple logo on it...
how do you do it?

I use different backup methods depending on the system and how badly I do NOT want to loose my data.
My MacBook is the most backed up.
a) SuperDuper to a network mounted volume every day at work (this is the only manually started backup).
b) Time Machine when I'm at home.
c) Mozy.com for selected files so I have off-site backup.
d) And rsnapshot for selected files to my workstation at work over lunch.
My Mac mini, uses Time Machine. It is also my home network server with 2TB of external Drobo storage, and it is where my networked MacBook Time Machine backups go.
My Wife's iBook G4 is backed up via rsnapshot every night to my Mac mini external Drobo storage.
My Mom's iMac G4 is backed up over an ssh internet connection every night using rsnapshot to my Mac mini external Drobo storage.
My Wife's MacBook Pro is backed up via Time Machine to the Mac mini external Drobo storage.
My work Redhat Linux development system (2000 miles away) has selected files backed up to my work PowerMac G5 via rsnapshot several times a day over an ssh connection.
My work PowerMac G5 boot disk is backed up via SuperDuper ever night to the other internal disk.
Selected files on my PowerMac G5 are backed up via rsnapshot every night to an external disk.
Select files on several key work systems are backup nightly via tar, which is compressed, and copied over the network to my workstation.
My workstation has about 1.8TB of storage on it. I'm thinking of replacing the 300GB and 500GB internal disks with two 1TB disks now that I'm seeing prices in the $135 range. Another $10 price drop and I think I just might do it

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Thank you.

My first thought is to try your local public library. My father, aged 62, bought his first computer (with my help) in 2006. He went along to some free courses ran by the local library, and as well as giving him basic computer use skills, I'm pretty sure they also covered the basics on computer components.
Google could be your friend for this though too I'm sure...

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I bought my first Mac in february and I love everything about it. that said, I've been trying to get my hands on as much software as possible and I'm interested in learning about xCode. is there somewhere I can get started, right from scratch? I don't know much about developing software at all but I'm willing to learn.
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I posted this a while back. I don't know if it was helpful or not. It is a tutorial on C programming written by the author of a very good book on Motif programming.
How C Programming Works
Since you are just starting, my advice is to stay out of Xcode, just for little bit. Go through some basic "HelloWorld" tutorials. Learn how the terminal works. Learn a little bit about the process of compiling a source file into an executable. Xcode is very good, but it hides a lot of what is going on underneath. I think you would be much more effective with Xcode if you knew a little about that hidden stuff.

HT201250 My backup external hard drive hasn't work since I insalled Snow Leopard. Bad:( I am still learning about my MAC and would just like to re-format the hard dive and set everything up again. I want to upgrade to Lion but can't untill I backup what

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Read through the links here, calm down and take your time.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

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i want to learn about workflow any one can provide the guidance for me

SAP Business Workflow can be used to define business processes that are not yet mapped in the R/3 System. These may be simple release or approval procedures, or more complex business processes such as creating a material master and the associated coordination of the departments involved. SAP Business Workflow is particularly suitable for situations in which work processes have to be run through repeatedly, or situations in which the business process requires the involvement of a large number of agents in a specific sequence.
Features
SAP Business Workflow provides a number of tools for defining and analyzing workflows as well as for monitoring operation.
The Workflow Builder is for displaying and making changes to workflows. You can make small extensions directly to the original workflows supplied by SAP, such as carrying out your own agent assignments or changing deadline monitoring.
There are several Workflow Wizards to support you in the definition of workflows, with which you can create specific parts of a workflow. The Workflow Wizard Explorer gives you an overview of the existing Workflow Wizards.
In order to make the functions of the R/3 Systems available to a workflow, you use business objects, which you can define and analyze in the Business Object Builder. These business objects are made available to the workflow in reusable tasks. The Business Wizard Explorer gives you an overview of all existing tasks.
You can also use SAP Business Workflow to respond to errors and exceptions in other, existing business processes. You can start a workflow when predefined events occur, for example an event can be triggered if particular errors are found during an automatic check.
Please follow the links,
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/04/926f8546f311d189470000e829fbbd/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/c5/e4a930453d11d189430000e829fbbd/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/a1/172437130e0d09e10000009b38f839/frameset.htm
A good tutorial
http://www.thespot4sap.com/articles/Invoice_Verification_Automation_Using_SAP_Workflow.asp
http://www.sap-basis-abap.com/wf/sap-business-workflow.htm
http://www.sap-img.com/workflow/sap-workflow.htm
/people/alan.rickayzen/blog
/people/jocelyn.dart/blog/2006/06/19/why-use-abap-oo-with-workflow
a good book
http://www.sap-press.com/product.cfm?account=&product=H950
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/PSWFL/PSWFL.pdf
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/4a/dac507002f11d295340000e82dec10/frameset.htm
http://www.workflowing.com/id18.htm
http://www.e-workflow.org/
http://web.mit.edu/sapr3/dev/newdevstand.html
Check the following PDF
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCBMTWFMSTART/BCBMTWFMSTART.pdf
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCBMTWFMDEMO/BCBMTWFMDEMO.pdf
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCBMTWFMPM/BCBMTWFMPM.pdf
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/PSWFL/PSWFL.pdf
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Sai

Why your backups are so slow and what you can do about it.

So you know your backup us slow and want to know what's wrong.
Here it is:
1) Transferring files from the iPad to your computer happens at an unacceptably slow rate of ~100 KBytes per second, even though it is connected via USB2. (You are using a USB2 port, right?)
2) The iPad/iTunes backup process introduces a multiple second pause between each and every file that gets backed up. Ugh!
As bad as problem #1 is, it's really problem #2 that is causing everyone serious problems.
Here's what happens: Some applications create many very small files. The free NPR app is one. If you have lots of photos, that can be another. When you back up these tiny files, even though they may be only 1 KB in size, they can take up to 5 seconds each to transfer. In the case of NPR, each jpeg is stored separately and is backed up separately. If you have 500 jpegs, each one is only 2K in size, but there is a 5 second lag between files, you have to wait an extra 2500 seconds (41 minutes!) to back up that 1 megabyte of data.
Why this lag between files? Only Apple knows for sure. My guess is that it is due to the creation of the metafiles sent to the computer during the backup process. If the iPad is generating the metadata as an actual file in flash, the delays might be caused by read-modify-write cycles in flash. I want to say to Apple, why hasn't this been fixed? This problem is obvious to anyone who bothers to take a close look at the backup process. I can't believe they don't know about it. Do you really need so much of a lag between transmitting files? But I digress.
The real question is, what to do about it? The answer is that you have 3 choices:
1) Do nothing and live with it.
2) Turn off backups. There are several apps out there that can do this, just Google it.
3) Figure out which applications are guilty of producing large numbers of files and can them.
To go about #3, get a copy of AppleSlowBackupLiveView from http://files.m4ko.de/applesync/
Start a backup, figure out what folder the backup is being written to, then paste that folder into AppleSlowBackupLiveView and hit the "Check This Backup" program.
Each time a new file is being backed up a new line will appear. If you see the same application appearing over and over and over again, you know that this application is partly to blame. You can hit the Remove Duplicates button to combine all of the entries for a given application into one line and then look at the "Total s" column to see how long it took to back up that application.
Apple really needs to address these two issues, especially the second one as it should be very easy to fix. Simply find out what the iPad is doing between file transmissions and eliminate that problem. If it is prep work, start a new thread on the NEXT file to be backed up while the current one is being transmitted. There are ways to fix this. Please do!

Thank you for this info!
However, you are only communicating with other users, like yourself, here and not anyone from Apple.
If you wish Apple to see and possiblly work toward resolving this issue, you can try sending them feedback here.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Hello!! I am interested in learn all about Cloud Computing Technology. What information resources do you recommend: link, books, etc?

Whats books are the betters to learn about Cloud Computing?

Hi,
Glad to see you want to come aboard the cloud computing ship
If you didn't read it already, I would start with the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
This pdf is also very good and it exlpains Oracle's cloud computing strategy: http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/cloud/oracle-cloud-computing-wp-076373.pdf
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I have so many questions, and frankly, the answers I've seen looking (briefly, admittedly) around these threads scare me. Gee, Wally, what ever happened to Apple as the computer you didn't have to know computer programming to use?
Now, before you all get your panties in a bunch telling me that I'm responsible for knowing how to use my hardware, I know...and I do want to know.
So what I want to know now is how can I learn about the various types of "shares", and what they mean for hooking up a network drive for backup, etc.
I have a WD 1TB drive which I believe uses "SMB", whatever that is. It's got two folders on it currently, "Public" which I can access, and "WD Backup", which I can't. I also can't seem to use it as a Time Machine drive, which is what I want to do with it. And, or course, I can't re-format it, which I'd love to do as my wife hates the folder designations on it, and would like to have one folder called "iMac Backup" on it.
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Unfortunately, networking and file-sharing aren't quite so simple in part because there's decades of history and dozens of companies involved in getting it into the current state. If you want dead-simple, you can get an Apple Time Capsule or AirPort with an external drive and be done with it. However, if you really want the most from network storage, you'll probably want to read up...
WD make a number of drive, some network-attached, some not. We'll assume that you have one of their basic consumer network-attached drives.
"SMB" stands for "Server Message Block" protocol and it was the local area network file-sharing protocol developed for Windows for Workgroups circa 1992 (it was later renamed CIFS - Common Internet File System - by Microsoft in 1996 because of the rising popularity of the Internet, despite the difficulty in getting it to work in anything but a small local network). SMB/CIFS is still widely used today for Microsoft Windows networks, though much of the equipment that serves those files are built on Linux or FreeBSD and not Windows.
Access to shares on an SMB server (such as your hard disk) is controlled through a configuration utility provided with the drive or via a web application built into the device (that you access through your browser). Consult your manual. Generally speaking, however, SMB servers offer different ways of identifying whether or not you can access a share: 1) based on the computer connecting (in which case, everyone is considered the same user), or 2) based on a username/password combo. Generally a server will only operate in one mode. Shared directories can also allow or deny "guest" access (access without a password). All of this should be configurable through the drive utility or web application which you access with your web browser. Generally, an SMB server can only operate in one mode.
It sounds like the Public directory is configured to allow guest access, and I'm guessing that "WD Backup" is a share that's password-protected and intended to be used with Western-Digital's own software of the same name. You should be able to add and create new directories as necessary through the provided utility or the web interface.
You are correct, you cannot use Time Machine with an SMB file-sharing service. Time Machine will require AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) or NFS (Network File System) support. Western-Digital only has 3 network drives that support AFP and Time Machine: My Book Live, MyBook World, and WD ShareSpace. OS X also has some basic requirements about the performance and capabilities of network storage in order to use it with Time Machine, so you really want to look for drives that state up front that you can use Time Machine with them (for example, WD World Edition: http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/updates/docs/en/appletimemachine.pdf )
I'm not sure why you can't reformat the drive. This is supported on all WD products (though, if you've moved a bunch of data to it already, perhaps it would be a hassle).
You can do backups of your Mac over SMB, but it's complicated by the fact that SMB is quite old and isn't capable of storing information about the file permissions, ownership, etc. It will be reliable for data files, but not for applications, etc. There's a work-around, of course. You can create a disk image on the SMB share using Disk Utility (make sure you create an HFS+ image) and backup to that. If you go that route, I would suggest either Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to perform your backups. They are true backup tools, not versioning tools like Time Machine.

Please suggest me the best way to start learning about Oracle Purchasing.

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I have started reading about Oracle Procurement. I have an over all idea of how ERP functions. Anyhow I am like a fresher to ORACLE APPS. Can you pleasesuggest me what is the best way to start learning about Oracle Purchasing.
Is it is throuhg user guides or some thing else..... can you please specify the references also.......
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If you have a sponsorship, I would recommend taking classes with Oracle University. The other resources are documentation, functional and technical depending on what your interests are.
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After reading through these threads for help on multiple issues I am having, I realized that there is so much I do not know about my Mac. Mainly about keeping it tuned up and cleaned out. I have seen people mention many different programs which they are using to keep their Mac in tip top shape. Where would be the best place for me to really learn and understand my Mac so that I can keep it working well?

The most importing thing to remember before "tuning" your Mac is to remember to back it up.
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Besides other utilities are there mainly to troubleshoot issues you may be having. But none can replace having a good backup. Some can supplement it by getting your Mac back in good shape without having to restore from your backup, eventually though restoring from the backup may be needed.
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Time machine: An error occurred while copying files. The problem could be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk.

Time machine backups are failing. I've followed the instructions I found on the Time Machine troubleshooting page (http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html) but have gotten to where I don't know what to do next.
Sequence of events:
The main error message is always:
An error occurred while copying files. The problem could be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk.
Yesterday, I opened Disk Utility and verified the disk. Got this error:
Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility.
I ran Disk Utility and repaired the hard drive. Then I manually started the backup before going to bed, figuring it was going to take a long time to run. When I got up this morning, the backup had failed with the same "could be temporary" error. I checked the log, which says:
Starting manual backup
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Tery%20Griffin;[email protected]/Tery%20Griffin's%20Time%20Ca psule
Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Tery Griffin's Time Capsule using URL: afp://Tery%20Griffin;[email protected]/Tery%20Griffin's%20Time%20Ca psule
Disk image /Volumes/Tery Griffin's Time Capsule/Tery Griffin’s Computer (44).sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Error: (-36) Applying backup protections to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Tery Griffin‚Äôs Computer (44)/2014-03-05-201742.inProgress/ABB10CF2-F041-4DE5-B6AE-3C228B59ADCC
Error: (5) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotStartDate path:/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Tery Griffin‚Äôs Computer (44)/2014-03-05-201742.inProgress/ABB10CF2-F041-4DE5-B6AE-3C228B59ADCC size:17
Error: (5) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotState path:/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Tery Griffin‚Äôs Computer (44)/2014-03-05-201742.inProgress/ABB10CF2-F041-4DE5-B6AE-3C228B59ADCC size:2
Deep event scan at path:/ reason:must scan subdirs|new event db|
Finished scan
Found 145601 files (11.88 GB) needing backup
16.1 GB required (including padding), 620.77 GB available
Copied Zero KB of 11.88 GB, 0 of 145601 items
Copied 0 files (Zero KB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/Tery Griffin's Time Capsule/Tery Griffin’s Computer (44).sparsebundle
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Starting automatic backup
Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://Tery%20Griffin;[email protected]/Tery%20Griffin's%20Time%20Ca psule
Mounted network destination at mount point: /Volumes/Tery Griffin's Time Capsule using URL: afp://Tery%20Griffin;[email protected]/Tery%20Griffin's%20Time%20Ca psule
Disk image /Volumes/Tery Griffin's Time Capsule/Tery Griffin’s Computer (44).sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Error: (-36) Applying backup protections to /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/Tery Griffin‚Äôs Computer (44)/2014-03-05-201742.inProgress/9F8E7957-9C50-49C3-8314-880E5203E3D9
Error: (5) setxattr for key:com.apple.backupd.SnapshotStartDate path:/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/
Does anyone know what the problem is here and what I should do?
Thanks,
Tery

You have repaired your boot drive (which is good) but have you repaired your time machine drive? I don't own a Time Capsule so I don't know if disk utility can operate on it. If it can, you should repair it as well. You may need to erase it and start a new backup. That happens to time machine volumes from time to time and is why people who are serious about their data never rely on a single source of backup.

I see that many people have already complained about Itunes' backup encryption. I NEVER set a password for it (and the corresponding option is still unticked, as always) yet it asked me for a pwd when I upgraded my 3GS to the 5.0 OS. How to solve this?

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Email message files can be read as plain text in TextEdit or any word processor.
To protect your email messages from being viewed by others while in your account, you would have to lock the folder, putting it into an encrypted disk image that required a password to be opened and mounted. You would have to double-click on the image and give your password to mount it before launching Mail then unmount it as soon as you're done. My guess is that you could replace the ~/Library/Mail folder with an alias pointing to the folder on the disk image.
It may work, but it seems like a lot of unnecessary hassle.

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I recently starting receiving the error message "Time Machine couldn't complete the backup to... An erro occurred while copying files. The problem may be temporary. If the problem persists, use Disk Utility to repair your backup disk. I have had no problems backing up my MacBook Pro 2011 to my Western Digital My Book Live through a Linksys EA4500 router until recently. I've made no major changes. I've ran a diagnosis on my back up drive with no problems. The Time Machine back up starts, but about after about 5 to 10 minutes I get the error message. I can see the shared drive in Finder. The light on the drive blinks while it starts the back up. I can see the shared folders on the networked drive. The backup process starts but for some reason it just stops. Can anyone help?

You can't repair a network volume in Disk Utility.
Backing up to a third-party NAS with Time Machine is risky, and unacceptably risky if it's your only backup. I know this isn't the answer you want, and I also know that the manufacturer says the device will work with Time Machine, and that it usually seems to work. Except when you try to restore, and find that you can't.
If you want network backup with Time Machine, use as the destination either an Apple Time Capsule or an external hard drive connected to another Mac or to an 802.11ac AirPort base station. Only the 802.11ac base stations support Time Machine, not any older model.
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