Backup & Storage Solutions?

Hi,
I'm a new Mac user and just got a 13"MBA. I have already filled up the hard drive, mostly with pictures and videos. I have an external hard drive (2TB) which I am using for the Time Machine. Can I also use this to store files? How do I transfer them from the Air to the external drive, and then how can I access them when I need them?
Thanks!

Make sure that you have read & write permission to the file,
click the file (two finger) to bring up menu
select "get info "
on the the bottom by Sharing & Permissions:
you should have Read & Write Access
if you do not click on the lock enter the administrator password. give yourself permission
Hope this helps
kathy

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Macbook Backup/Storage solution

I have an older Macbook (purchased in 2007 or 2008) and have been getting the error message start up disk full. I have deleted a lot of files or moved them to an external hard drive and emptied the trash but am still getting the error message. When I try to do software updates, I get the same message.
Is it time to get a new laptop? I was also considering joining icloud and migrating my photos and music there but I would have to get Snow Leopard and then Lion to have the right OS for that and I'm not sure my laptop would have enough space for me to install those. Any recs? I'd like to have a good long term solution for backing up files, music and documents and helping keep my start up disk running:)
Thanks,
Laura

I have an older Macbook (purchased in 2007 or 2008) and have been getting the error message start up disk full. I have deleted a lot of files or moved them to an external hard drive and emptied the trash but am still getting the error message. When I try to do software updates, I get the same message.
Is it time to get a new laptop? I was also considering joining icloud and migrating my photos and music there but I would have to get Snow Leopard and then Lion to have the right OS for that and I'm not sure my laptop would have enough space for me to install those. Any recs? I'd like to have a good long term solution for backing up files, music and documents and helping keep my start up disk running:)
Thanks,
Laura

Best storage solution for central itunes library?

I'd like to create a 4 Gb central library, running itunes permantenly on a headless Mac Mini. The library will contain all music and videos and should be available to an Apple TV, PC and Iphones (remote).
I am not sure about what kind of storage solution to buy. I want a second disk for backups, ideally also for storage of system backups of my PC and iphones. Should I buy and install a NAS and connect via Ethernet or are two firewire or usb 3.0 external hdds connected to the Mac Mini a better solution? I want to avoid issues with corrupt itunes libraries, missing files, connection issues with home sharing, etc. And are external hdds built to run 24//24 in terms of life span, energy consumption and heating?
Thank you.

Derekeys wrote:
I believe there is a way to have my itunes library on an external, but can the iMac read the external and stream to Apple TV with quality?
No problems at all.
Get an external USB drive.
Copy the entire /Music/iTunes/ folder to the external drive.
Hold Option, launch iTunes, select Choose library... and select the iTunes folder on the external.
That is all you need to do.
You can do this with on the laptop and and later use the same iTunes library on another computer just by connecting the external, holding Option, selecintg Choose library... and selecting the iTunes folder on the external.

What's the best storage solution for a large iLife? RAID? NAS?

I'm looking for an affordable RAID storage solution for my Time Machine, iTunes Library, iMovie videos, and iPhoto Library. To this point I've been doing a hodgepodge of external hard drives without the saftey of redundancy and I've finaly been bitten with HD failures. So I'm trying to determine what would be the best recommendation for my scenario. Small Home Office for my wife's business (just her), and me with all our media. I currentlty have a mid-2010 Mac Mini (no Thunderbolt), she has an aging 2007 iMac and 2006 MacBook Pro (funny that they're all about the same benchmark speed). We have an AppleTV (original), iPad2 and two iPhone 4S's.
1st Question: Is it better to get a RAID and connect it to my Airport Extreme Base Station USB port as a shared disk? OR to connect it directly to my Mac Mini and share through Home Sharing? OR Should I go with a NAS RAID?
2nd Question: Simple is Better. Should I go with a Mac Mini Server and connect drives to it? (convert my Mac Mini into a server) or Should I just get one of those nice all-in-one 4-bay RAID drive solutions that I can expand with?
Requirements:
1. Expandable and Upgradeable. I don't want something limited to 2TB drives, but as drives get bigger and cheaper I want to easily throw one in w/o concerns.
2. Simple integration with Time Machine and my iLife: iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto. If iTune's Home Sharing feature is currently the best way of using my media across multiple devices then why mess with it? I see "DLNA certified" storage on some devices and wonder if that would just add another layer of complexity I don't need. One more piece to make compatible.
3. Inexpensive. I totally believe in the "You Get What You Pay For" concept. But I also realize sometimes I'm buying marketing, not product. I imagine that to start, I'm going to want a diskless system (because of $$$) to throw all my drives into, and then upgrade bigger drives as my data and funds grow.
4. Security. I don't know if its practical, but I like the idea of being able to pop two drives out and put them in my safe and then pop them back in once a week for the backup/mirroring. I like this idea because I'm concerned that onsite backup is not always the safest. Unfortunately those cloud based services aren't designed for Terabytes of raw family video, or an entire media library that isn't wholey from the iTunes Store. I can't be the only one facing this challenge. Surely there's an affordable way to keep a safe backup for the average Joe. But what is it?
5. Not WD. I've had bad experiences with Western Digital drives, and I loathe their consumer packaged backup software that comes preloaded on their external drives. They are what I meant when I say you get what you pay for. Prettily packed garbage.
6. Relatively Fast. I have put all my media on an external drive before (back when it fit on one drive) and there's noticeable spool-up hang time. Thunderbolt's nice and all, but so new that its not easily available across devices, nor is it cheap. eSata is not really an option. I love Firewire but I'm getting the feeling that Apple has made it the red-headed step-child of connections. USB 3.0 looks decent, but like eSata, Apple doesn't recognize it exists. Where does that leave us? Considering this dilemma I really liked Seagate's GoFlex external drives because it meant I could always buy a new base and still be compatible. But that only works with single drives. And as impressive as Seagate is, we can't expect them to consistently double drive sizes every two years like they have been -cool as that may be.
So help me out without getting too technical. What's the best setup? Is it Drobo? Thecus? ReadyNAS? Seagate's BlackArmor? Or something else entirely?
All comments are appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I am currently using WD 2TB Thunderbolt hard drive for my iTunes, which i love and is works great. i am connected directly to my Mac Book Pro. I am running low on Memory and thinking of buying a bigger Hard drive. My question is should I buy 6TB thunderbolt HD or 6TB NAS drive to work solely for iTunes. I have home sharing enabled for my Apple TV
I also have my time capsule connected just as back up only.

I want to use my airport time capsule as a network attached storage solution, is this possible or do I need to connect a separate hard drive?

I want to use my airport time capsule as a network attached storage solution, is this possible or do I need to connect it to a separate hard drive?

The Time Capsule is by default a network hard drive, but it has no "brains" of it's own. So, it cannot function as a stand alone media server if that is what you are asking.
If you are also using the Time Capsule hard drive for Time Machine backups of your Mac(s), then there may be struggle for available space on the drive since it is not possible to partition the Time Capsule drive in a traditional manner.
If space is getting tight on the Time Capsule, it might be a good idea to connect a drive to the USB port on the Time Capsule and use that drive for your network storage needs.

VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION: Backup/Storage problems

Please help!!!
Ok. I'll try to explain this but it's kind of confusing so I'll do my best.
OK, so a few weeks ago, (maybe 2 or 3 weeks I don't remember) I had about 30 GB free on my MacBook Air's Macintosh HD storage drive. I have a Windows partition that takes up about 48GB out of my 121 total GB. The mac part of my computer has like 72 GB. Like I said, I had about 30 GB free on my mac side; I had about 9-15 GB or so of pictures from my iPhone, photo stream, and laptop. I had about 18 GB of apps, etc.
This was on November 10th I think, and the only thing that happened between then and like 1 week ago was free space went from 30>> 27GB or so.
Problem: iCloud almost full from iPod backup, iPhone almost full from videos and pictures.
Proposed solution: Move iPod and iPhone pictures to MacBook Air so I have space on iCloud, iPod, and iPhone.
Anyway, for Christmas, I got a new Seagate 1 TB backup external drive thing. I thought this was plenty of room for my tiny computer. I decided to backup my computer.
Problem: I forgot to transfer my iPod and iPhone pictures >> MacBook Air >> Backup
Proposed solution: Move photos from iPod and iPhone to MBA and go from there.
On Christmas, I decided to just synch everything. I plugged in my iPod and put my photos onto my computer and deleted them from iCloud (at this point, I was trying to free up space on my iPhone). I had about 3.2 GB on my iPod of photos and videos, and I transfered them to my iPhoto on my MacBook Air. I deleted them off of iCloud. Then, I plugged in my iPhone, and I transfered my 6.5 or so GB of videos and pictures to iPhoto.
What happened: I transfered all of my iPod and iPhone stuff to my MacBook Air. My iPhoto now has about 16-17 GB of stuff.
Problem: My backup doesn't have my pictures. The last time I backed it up was before I had all my pictures on my computer.
Proposed solution: Get all iPod pictures in one folder, get all iPhone pictures in one folder, move them to the backup.
I didn't want to backup my computer with my pictures on it, because if I deleted them from my computer and backed my computer up again, my backup would delete the pictures it had backed up. If that makes sense.
Proposed solution: Move folders to backup. Like so:
After doing all these transfers all night until 12:30, I thought I was done. Then, this morning, I remembered that I still had to delete my pictures off of my computer, because they were now on a flashdrive (forgot to mention that) and a backup.
THIS IS WHEN THE BIG PROBLEM OCCURS/IS REALIZED
OK:
1) I go to iPhoto, select all of my pictures, and I move pictures to trash
2) I go to the trash bin/can/whatever it is and I click "empty."
3) I thought this would free up the 15 or so GB on my computer.
4) I go to Finder, and I realize that iPhoto has indeed shrunk from 16.9 or so GB >> 1.27 GB.
5) I go to Finder >> Macintosh HD >> info >> says I have 24.38 GB free. I'm happy.
HOWEVER
I go to the upper left-hand corner, click the apple, hit about this mac, hit more info, hit storage... AND:
My iPhoto went from 16.something >> 1.27 now. I deleted like 15.64 or 15.65GB. This is now under backups. My Photos and movies number shrunk, but my other and backups increased dramatically
What happened/Problem: The exact amount of storage space I deleted from iPhoto is the amount for Backups (it differed by like 1 MB). Coincidence? How did this happen?! Why did this happen?
What happened/Problem II: Now there is 23.65 GB under other?!?! All I did was move pictures temporarily to my computer and then I deleted them, and I also backed up my computer using Time Machine to back it up to my... backup.
What finder thinks:
My Question: WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED AND HOW DO I FIX IT. I thought this would free up space on my iPod, iPhone, and computer, but it took away free space on my computer. I've read online and I can't find a solution or answer. Finder and storage say completely different things. I don't know how much space I really have, and why they differ.
What is this and what do I do to remove the other/backup space? I threw away the pictures and deleted the iPhoto pictures, but it thinks they are still there? I've tried searching finder, but I can't find out where all my space is vanishing to.
Thank you so much for reading and please help! It would be VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.

Personally, I say you forget about the data allocation feature of "About this Mac." I swear, someone in Cupertino designed that feature to drive up support calls more than provide insightful information on your storage allocation.
You are correct that the "backup" component is the local snapshots of Time Machine and that flagged as allocated space frees up in the event that you need the space. In Apple's defense that functionality of Lion & Mt. Lion is pretty neat. Even though it just gives people another excuse to be lazy about not keeping a good and proper external backup solution.
Notice my Backups allocation, it's Zero KB. It's always Zero KB. There's a terminal command to stop OS X from creating the local snapshots, it'll require you to authenticate in terminal to process the command.
The command - sudo tmutil disablelocal
In the event you change your mind and want to re-enable it, the command for that is as follows -
sudo tmutil enablelocal (you'll be prompted for the admin password again)
For what it's worth, there's no harm in disabling this functionality. It's just extremely important that you maintain current backups of your data at regular intervals should you decide to disable this functionality... you know like you had to do with every other version of OS X (pre-Lion).
Regarding the "other" category, here's a pretty good write up.
http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html
Personally the accuracy of the reporting categories are a bit wacky. Even more frustrating is that you can't dive into what exactly is considered "other" or see it color categorized in Finder. Perhaps that'll be a feature of OS X 10.9 - Ocelot*
*I have no idea if Apple will even release an OS X 10.9 or what it'll be called, it was a joke. You can call off the forum police.
If you're looking for an accurate representation of what's on the drive, where it's located in the various folder directories and exactly how much space it's using then a program like:
- Daisy Disk
- OmniDiskSweeper
- Disk Inventory X
- WhatSize?
All will be much, much better for those purposes. I used ODS for years and love the product, I just recently started using Daisy Disk after a recommendation from someone on these message boards. All of them are "free" but many of them require you to pay to enable features. But for the purposes of inventory, categorization and displaying of your data that functionality is free.

Oracle hardware and storage solution configuration questions

Hi all,
I am configuring hardware and the storage solution for a project and am hoping to have some questions answered about using Oracle as the storage solution.
The current setup will have 2 Dell NX3100 NAS gateways each with dual quad core processors, 24GB of RAM, 12x2TB data disks, and running Windows Storage Server 2008 64bit as the OS.
Will also have direct attached storage of 2 Dell PowerVault MD1200 disk arrays, each disk array with 12 x 2Terabyte SAS disk drives giving a total of 36TB of storage space for each NAS Gateway.
Based on this information, is there any problem with two Oracle Standard Edition installation (1 per NAS) holding up to 36TB of data (mostly high res images) in this hardware configuration?
Does Oracle have a built in solution for replicating data between the 2 NAS heads and down to the disk arrays? Where the application sever will write to one of the NAS+disk arrays and then that data is written from the first NAS to the 2nd NAS+disk array? Currently I've used DoubleTake in other projects but am wondering if Oracle has something similar that is built in.
Finally, will Backup Exec Oracle agent work with this configuration for backing up the data to a Dell PowerVault ML6020 Tape backup device?
Thanks in advance for any insight.

Hi,
Does Oracle have a built in solution for replicating data between the 2 NAS heads and down to the disk arrays? Where the application sever will write to one of the NAS+disk arrays and then that data is written from the first NAS to the 2nd NAS+disk array? Currently I've used DoubleTake in other projects but am wondering if Oracle has something similar that is built in.NAS - I still doubt during the network issues (In case of RAC - all nodes would get afftected), I would not suggest certainly for this. Let the other experts reply back.
- Pavan Kumar N

Single best external storage solution for Mac Pro & MacBook Pro ...?

Hello,
I'm still waiting for the Mac Pro delivery I have around me something like four external hard drives from different vendors and different sizes and all containing important data ... it is really a mess, cables, lack of redundancy, etc.
I wanted to replace all these once and for all by a single elegant long-lasting and reliable solution to combine with my new Mac Pro and MacBook Pro. The best I could find was OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 8.0TB containing four internal HDD in double RAID with multiple possible setups: RAID 0 and RAID 1, RAID 10 configurations:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEQX2T8.0S/
Looks like an excellent choice for the only one external storage solution! does anyone has experience with this model? are there better contenders?
Many thanks in advance,
Best regards,
Giovanni

Giovanni,
I have the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 (6 TB) external HD array in a Raid 5 configuration (as received from OWC). I have found it to be excellent when connected to my Mac Pro using a PCI SATA card and the SATA output on the Elite-AL Pro Qx2. The speed of the system under Raid 5 easily supports all but uncompressed high definition video, and the system came with Prosoft's Data Backup software which does an excellent job of backing up other external drives installed on my Mac Pro.
I highly recommend the Qx2 and think you will find it is a good single source solution to providing you with reliable and safe storage for your data. With Raid 5 if one of the HD's in the Qx2 fails, you simply remove it and allow the system to rebuild the data when you insert a new HD. Thus unless two HD's fail simultaneously (high unlikely) you are protected against data loss. Note also that your Mac Pro does not have to be left on while the Qx2 is rebuilding.
Tom

Im completely new to Mac. Im swapping my windows laptop for macbook pro and looking for network storage solution which the Time Capsule seems to do. Is it possible to use this as NAS for my desktop Windows PC - windows 7

Im completely new to Mac. Im swapping my windows laptop for macbook pro and looking for network storage solution which the Time Capsule seems to do. Is it possible to use this as NAS for my desktop Windows PC - windows 7

Broadly speaking I want some sort of network storage( wireless or through my existing wifi router) that I can access files for both my windows PC and Macbook and also to access files to my iPad/ iPhone. Some sort of backup and sychronisation so that I can access certain files remotely.
Buy a real NAS.. synology or QNAP are the standard... although companies like Netgear and Western Digital and Seagate make them as well.
There is no problem sharing between Mac and PC now.. you do not even need a NAS to do that.. you simply share the hard disk directly. Mac talk SMB.. everything talks SMB nowadays.. so it is easy.
ipad and iphone are not designed to use NAS.. they are designed to backup only to the cloud or itunes.. but you can load an app like file browser if you want.
http://www.stratospherix.com/products/filebrowser/
Remote access to the Apple TC is somewhere between difficult, to impossible from a PC.. Apple use BTMM and iCloud but the service is not offered to PC.
A real NAS will offer HTTPS or SFTP or several other methods.. that both Mac and PC can use.
You simply plug it into the current wireless router.. it is a network device and assessable over the network. It is not necessary to buy another router.. in fact that is a waste.

Central storage solution for video & digital content

I'm looking for advice on storage solutions for a small scale (audio) recording studio which is expanding into video and post production.
There is a simple wired/wireless network connected via a simple Netgear wireless/ethernet router to which two MacPros (ethernet), one iMac (wireless) and one MacBook (wireless) are connected.
Currently audio is recorded onto 10,000rpm drives in the main MacPro and then archived onto SATA drives in a firewire Wiebetech traydock system. There is also an Apple Time Capsule which backups up the other computers.
The system is rather fragmented and messy and I'm looking to upgrade to a simpler and more resilient system for managing all this. I've been using Mac for a long time but haven't kept abreast of central storage solutions.
Advice on a simple central storage solution would be appreciated. Thanks.

One thing I'm unsure about is the difference between Firewire 800 and Ethernet as connection protocols between a computer and an external drive or RAID. I've seen "Networked" external storage devices that look quite simple ( eg IOMEGA StorCenter ix2-200 Network-Attached Storage - 4TB)
Are both suitable for connecting an external drive/RAID, providing adequate bandwidth for uncompressed HD video editing?
With a standard 4 year old MacPro and ethernet routed via my Netgear Wireless Router, what would the bandwidth be?
Thanks for any answers to these basic questions.

Best Storage Solution?

Most probably already debated in several threads (but I cannot find a straight answer), my request for help/advice is about the best possible storage solution for backing up my system and photographs.
Currently, I've got my Aperture 1.5.6 library backed up in the Vault on the second internal 500Gb HD. Is this safe enough or should I really look at an external back-up solution on external HD?
Although my use of the Mac is almost exclusively for photography (not professionally though), I wondering whether I should be thinking of backing up the whole of my system, rather than Aperture only.
In essence, my question is: should I get a massive external HD (1 tera) and back the whole system there (including the Aperture library), or add another couple of internal HD in the free slots of the Pro and back everything up internally? Also, I've read in some posts about RAID. Can someone tell me what this is in very simple words, please?
Any help/advice is welcome as, like it can probably be seen from this post, I am rather confused
Many thanks

Fotoamatore wrote:
Most probably already debated in several threads (but I cannot find a straight answer), my request for help/advice is about the best possible storage solution for backing up my system and photographs.
First we need to know your primary apps and how you take photos (DSLR RAW or point-and-shoot or film/scans) as well as what hard drives you have now and your current backup protocol, both on-site and off-site.
Also, I've read in some posts about RAID. Can someone tell me what this is in very simple words, please?
RAID means redundant array of independent drives, and is not simple and cannot arbitrarily be made simple without missing essential concepts. Basically multiple drives are hardware or software combined in arrays to improve speed and/or data security depending upon each individual scenario. All RAID configurations add cost of some kind: speed, dollars, reliability or capacity; usually a combination of those.
There are many different RAID configurations and what may or may not be appropriate is 100% dependent on each individual setup. Wiki has an excellent white paper on RAID:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID>
Anyone considering RAID should first become fully conversant with all the concepts discussed there. Heavy reading when you get to concepts like atomicity but necessary.
Note that RAID by definition requires multiple drives, so internal RAID configurations are fairly limited. Many vendors offer preconfigured RAID setups that can be connected externally (ideally eSATA, FW800 second choice, USB2 unacceptable). Full conversance with RAID concepts is also necessary prior to purchasing external solutions.
-Allen Wicks

Best storage solution for FCP HDV projects?

What is the best storage solution for Final Cut Pro HDV projects (i.e. internal or external drives, SCSI, external firewire drives, etc.)?

Don't forget you can also use the "Send to Tape" command to send your footage back to miniDV HDV tape. This isn't the ultimate solution, but is a good way to cheaply "backup" large projects to inexpensive tape without killing your drive storage with every project.
Here's a new feature request for Media Manager... Forget that. I'll start a new post for it.

What is the Best Storage Solution?

I have a laptop and an external drive E (where I store all my photos 9000plus). I would like some suggestions on the best (most reliable and long term) storage solutions. I was burning them on CD as well but now I have a Canon EOS Rebel GT (pictures are much larger files) I dont get many on a CD. I was wondering if I should get a DVD burner. I thought they probablly store a lot more pictures?? Wondering how many more?
Also, do I save all my tagged & edited pictures seperately from my originals (have two sets of photos)? And if so on the hard drive or on CD/DVD? Then I assume if I backup my catalogue when I get a new computer all I need to do is restore and everything is there?
Finally, any good stragegies on deleting pictures. I have 3 kids and have such a hard time deleting their photos. The obvious poor ones no problem but when I take rapid shot pictures they all seem so good. At this rate I will need to buy a bigger house to store all the hard drives and back up disks :)
Would love to hear what works well for you!
Thanks,
julie

The original poster asked the question whether or not to have two sets of photos (originals and edited).
What do most people do as far as this is concerned?
Do you include your original files in your Organizer catalogue or not?
The "workflow" that I have finished up with is this:
At the end of each day, I transfer all my camera shots into a folder such as C:\Negs\2006\0605\2006_0521Flowers ("Negs" because I think of them as equivalent to "negatives")
I do not use PSE4 downloader but use Fuji FinePixViewer simply because it came with my first camera and I have just continued with it. It makes it easy to rename the files to things like 0605210001.jpg (last 4 digits sequential for each date). I have tried descriptive file names but found them too difficult.
The word tacked onto the sub-folder name is a reminder of the general nature of the subject matter. I do not worry if there are a few shots that do not really belong but if there are a significant number of shots of totally unrelated subjects, I can cheat and artificially split the sub-folder in two. (The descriptive part of the folder name is pretty much redundant because of PSE4's tagging ability, it is really a carry-over from the Fuji program.)
I then go through and delete any completely useless shots.
I then copy and paste the sub-folder into a another folder named C:\Photos" which contains an identical sub-folder tree.
C:\Photos is watched by PSE4 so whatever is in it is automatically included in my catalogue.
I then go through and do my tagging.
I do my editing in the C:\Photos folder and save processed files in their original sub-folder but append _E to the file name to indicate that it has been edited. (I have a few other suffixes like _W for web images, _Q for max quality for large prints)
If I am not entirely satisified with my editing and think that maybe in a few days time I might be able to do a little better, I save my processed file as psd. Otherwise I flatten it and delete the un-edited version. (A copy of the original still being available in C:\Negs if required.)
Am I unusual in keeping my original shots outside Organizer? - my reason for doing it this way was to keep my Catalogue down to a manageable size.
As far as backing up is concerned, I have a comprehensive system that involves daily backups from C to D (a second internal drive) and monthly backups to external USB drives (used in rotation and kept off site).

Home Server with Mac Mini... Best storage solution

I have a Mac Mini which I want to setup as a home server with SL Server. The OS will be installed on the internal disk but I want my data to be stored securely and delivered fast.
Which external storage solution do you recommend:
a.) A Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ (which I already own) with Gigabit ethernet connected to the Gigabit LAN
b.) A Lacie (or other) Raid disk connected via FireWire (400 in my case) to the Mac Mini
c.) Something else
My Mac Mini is a C2D 1.83GHz with 4Gb RAM and I want to connect my iMac, my iPhone and my girlfriends MacBook to it. A general "household/kids" iMac will be added later. I will connect the Mac Mini via USB to a UPS so that it can shut down safely when mains fails. Which does not happen often over here, but still...
In case b.) the disk shuts down nicely with the Mac. In case a.) the NAS will abrubtly shut down.
I am pretty green when it comes to server stuff. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have two mac mini servers setup as a primary server and secondary backup for our small business. I have two WD 2TB FW 800 drives on the primary with the second backup drive daisy-chained to the first (mini's only have one FW 800 port). I have the secondary drive setup as a timemachine backup for the primary drive. Works great even though my IT guy recommended a "server grade" backup solution like Syncronize or CarbonCopy. From my standpoint, timemachine does exactly what i need and pushes over a GB or two backup in seconds with limited to zero processor usage.
I inquired with my IT guy about getting two NAS drives plugged into my cabinet switch to have full data redundancy on both my primary and secondary server but he recommended against it. he had concerns on speed and couldn't confirm that NAS and mac ACLs worked well together. Any observations on this appreciated.
I would definitely recommend enclosing your setup in a cabinet and getting a UPS. I purchased a 6U cabinet that fits under my desk to secure the minis, data drives, rack UPS and switch after I had 3 bad situations of the drives getting accidentally unplugged.

Can you help me on something? I restored my iPod and everything I had was gone. (What I Wanted) But then when I looked at my Usage It said I only have 22.5 GB Available and I Used 6.0 But I didn't. I also looked at my Backup storage and it still had all o

Can you help me on something? I restored my iPod and everything I had was gone. (What I Wanted) But then when I looked at my Usage It said I only have 22.5 GB Available and I Used 6.0 But I didn't. I also looked at my Backup storage and it still had all of my backup from before I restored. I deleted all my backup because it said I used all of my Backup Available. And now when I try and backup it says there is no more room or whatever to backup and Its 5/5.

You are not addressing Apple here. We are all just users like yourself
lost/stolen
No app on the iOS device is required.
- If you previously turned on FIndMyiPod/iPhone/iPad on the iOS device in Settings>iCloud and wifi is on and connected or cellular data is on and connected for, on a computer browser go to iCloud: Find My iPhone, sign in and go to FIndMyiPhone. If the iPod has been restored it will never show up or continue to show off-line.
- You can also wipe/erase the iOS device and have the device play a sound via iCloud.
iCloud: Erase your device
iCloud: Use Lost Mode
- If not shown, then you will have to use the old fashioned way, like if you lost a wallet or purse.
- Change the passwords for all accounts used on the device and report to police and carrier if iPhone or cellular iPad
- There is no way to prevent someone from restoring the erase (it erases it) using it unless you had iOS 7 or later on the device. With iOS 7 or later, one has to enter the Apple ID and password to restore the device.
- Apple will do nothing without a court order
Reporting a lost or stolen Apple product
- iOS: How to find the serial number, IMEI, MEID, CDN, and ICCID number

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