Can I use a SD Card rather than a USB stick when using Lion Recovery Disk Assistant
I'm using a MB Pro 2010, can I use a SD Card in the SD Card slot rather than a USB stick when using Lion Recovery Disk Assistant. I would like to use the 16GB chip with a single 1GB partition so I can dump a bunch of other backup stuff into the same chipper.
Yes, you could certainly do that, provided you have a card reader or an SD card slot available on both Macs and what you are copying is smaller than the capacity of your SD card.
But that's an awfully slow way to transfer GB's of files. 32GB SD cards cost anywhere from about $20 to $90 and of course the cheaper cards will be the slowest cards. Also need to consider that your iPhoto, iTunes and especially iMovie libraries may be larger than your SD card's capacity, and there is no easy way to 'split' them to save partial libraries and reassemble them on your new Mac.
A better solution is an external hard drive connected via FW or USB2. Much faster and without the capacity limit of an SD card. For example, you could get a 500GB OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini drive (5400 rpm) for $115 and after you are done using it for file transfer it would be a nice backup drive. Or build your own with an OWC mini case and a 500GB WD Scorpio 7200 rpm drive for about $120. Both support eSATA, FW400/800 and USB2.
Or you could just network the two Macs together and use the Finder to transfer files that way. Cheap, fast, and it works.
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>Mike
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>> I have 2 machines in a cluster (dcsv01 and dcsv02) (HP UNIX with weblogic
>server
>> 5.1 sp8) and 1 Windows PC with weblogic 5.1 sp10.
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>> I try to make a t3 connection between the PC and the cluster of machines.
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>> 171.1.70.61 becluster
>> 171.1.70.62 becluster
>> where
>> "171.1.70.61 is dcsv01 and
>> 171.1.70.62 is dcsv02 "
>>
>> If I connect my PC to the cluster with :
>> hp.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "t3://dcsv01, dcsv02:6001"); :
>> I have a great failover mechanism : if any of the machine (dcsv01 or
>dcsv02) are
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>>
>> BUT!! If I connect my PC to the cluster with :
>> hp.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "t3://becluster:6001"); :
>> I have a not great failover mechanism :
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>> 171.1.70.61(dcsv01) becluster
>> 171.1.70.62(dcsv02) becluster
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>> then if dcsv02 is down then all requests are routed to dcsv01 and that
>is
>fine.
>> BUT!! if dcsv01 is down then I got on my PC the
>> "Bootstrap unable to get a t3 connection to dcsv01" exception and failover
>does
>> not work. (not the way that it does with t3://dcsv01, dcsv02:6001 )
>> So how can I use
>> "t3://beclsuter:6001" rather than
>> "t3://dcsv01, dcsv02:6001" with the same failover service????
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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