QTSS Publisher Doesn't Like Symbolic Link

I wanted to store my music files on another drive, so I created a symbolic link for the Libraries folder to another directory. The QTSS Publisher app now crashes consistently. Anyone else have success with this?

Solved the problem on my own.

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Clustering, unix symbolic links, and war files

          Hello,
          we use symbolic links in our web application to a large shared storage device.
          This works when running a single server, when the application is not a war file.
          When we cluster the application, the admin server creates a war file, blindly
          follows the symbolic links and tries to include all files in the shared storage
          device. Bad!
          Is there a work-around to this problem in a clustered configuration?
          -Thanks-


          hi,
          can you tell me know you deploy your app to the cluster member
          manually? do you run each member as an admin server? how do
          you group them into a cluster then?
          thanks,
          yan
          "Philippe Lantin" plantin_AT_cobaltgroup.com wrote:
          >
          >
          >Yes, this method works. I did want to keep a central admin server to
          >avoid have
          >multiple configuration files, and deploy new code to only one location.
          >I suppose
          >I could do this via a shared drive.
          >
          >I have an open case with BEA on this issue. The root of the problem appears
          >to
          >be that the jar format isn't equipped to deal with symbolic links. Webapps
          >which
          >are exploded in directories lose their symbolic links when packaged in
          >a war.
          >
          >Thanks,
          >
          >Philippe Lantin
          >
          >"Cameron Purdy" <[email protected]> wrote:
          >>I've never used that centralized deployment feature; rather I've always
          >>configured each of the cluster members manually, partly because of the
          >>bug
          >>in the admin server in 6.0 (?) that would not allow it to deploy to
          >the
          >>cluster.
          >>
          >>Can you try to deploy the application manually?
          >>
          >>Peace,
          >>
          >>--
          >>Cameron Purdy
          >>Tangosol Inc.
          >><< Tangosol Server: How Weblogic applications are customized >>
          >><< Download now from http://www.tangosol.com/download.jsp >>
          >>
          >>
          >><Philippe Lantin plantin_AT_cobaltgroup.com> wrote in message
          >>news:[email protected]...
          >>>
          >>>
          >>> Hi,
          >>>
          >>> our web application is not a war when we use a single server. We simply
          >>use a
          >>> directory under "applications". This method works correctly with symbolic
          >>links
          >>> under weblogic v.6.1.
          >>>
          >>> To test our application in the cluster, we use the previous single
          >>server
          >>as the
          >>> administration server, leaving the application directory intact. We
          >>create
          >>a cluster
          >>> definition with it's target members using this web application.
          >>>
          >>> When we start up the cluster members, the administration server creates
          >>a
          >>war
          >>> file that is distributed to to cluster members. This is not somthing
          >>we
          >>control,
          >>> this is automatically done by weblogic.
          >>>
          >>> This is where we run into trouble. When the admin server creates the
          >>war
          >>file
          >>> to distribute to the cluster target, it follows the symbolic links
          >>and
          >>recursively
          >>> includes all files and directories. This creates a huge war file,
          >and
          >>is
          >>obviously
          >>> not the behavior we are looking for.
          >>>
          >>> Creating a war file manually doesn't help, since jar doesn't support
          >>symbolic
          >>> links.
          >>>
          >>> Thanks,
          >>>
          >>> Philippe Lantin
          >>>
          >>>
          >>> "Cameron Purdy" <[email protected]> wrote:
          >>> >I don't understand at which point you are running into a problem.
          >>> >
          >>> >> we use symbolic links in our web application to a large shared
          >storage
          >>> >device.
          >>> >
          >>> >That is not uncommon, for example to use a Sun storage box or EMC
          >>with
          >>> >some
          >>> >fault tolerant characteristics to host the application images etc.
          >>> >
          >>> >> This works when running a single server, when the application is
          >>not
          >>> >a war
          >>> >file.
          >>> >
          >>> >Do you mean when it is "exploded"? Does it work with a single server
          >>> >when
          >>> >the app is a war file?
          >>> >
          >>> >> When we cluster the application, the admin server creates a war
          >>file,
          >>> >blindly
          >>> >> follows the symbolic links and tries to include all files in the
          >>shared
          >>> >storage
          >>> >> device.
          >>> >
          >>> >This is the part that I don't follow. Are you using 6.1sp1? What
          >are
          >>> >the
          >>> >steps that you are taking with the admin server?
          >>> >
          >>> >Peace,
          >>> >
          >>> >--
          >>> >Cameron Purdy
          >>> >Tangosol Inc.
          >>> ><< Tangosol Server: How Weblogic applications are customized >>
          >>> ><< Download now from http://www.tangosol.com/download.jsp >>
          >>> >
          >>> >
          >>> ><Philippe Lantin plantin_AT_cobaltgroup.com> wrote in message
          >>> >news:[email protected]...
          >>> >>
          >>> >>
          >>> >> Hello,
          >>> >>
          >>> >> we use symbolic links in our web application to a large shared
          >storage
          >>> >device.
          >>> >> This works when running a single server, when the application is
          >>not
          >>> >a war
          >>> >file.
          >>> >> When we cluster the application, the admin server creates a war
          >>file,
          >>> >blindly
          >>> >> follows the symbolic links and tries to include all files in the
          >>shared
          >>> >storage
          >>> >> device. Bad!
          >>> >>
          >>> >> Is there a work-around to this problem in a clustered configuration?
          >>> >>
          >>> >> -Thanks-
          >>> >>
          >>> >>
          >>> >>
          >>> >
          >>> >
          >>>
          >>
          >>
          >

Symbolic Link doesn't work in 'File Window' on Mac

Hi, I'm Nao from Japan.
I'm sorry for my strange English.
I usually use Dreamweaver CC on Windows7 PC.
I manage some web sites. Three of them belong to same group. They require some same image files. The three sites are on one remote web server. So I use symbolic link(directory) to share the image files.
And on my windows PC, I use symbolic link to share the files in the local sites of the three.
'File Window' of dreamweaver CC (for Win) understands symbolic link and i have no trouble.
But 'File Window' of dreamweaver CC (for Mac) can't understand symbolic link.
('Preview Window' understand symbolic link.)
How can i solve the issue?

Thank you for your reply.
I should explain my situation again.
at command prompt on windows7,
c:\webSites>mkdir site_A
c:\webSites>mkdir site_B
c:\webSites>mkdir site_A\shared_images
c:\webSites>mklink /d site_B\shared_images c:\webSites\site_A\shared_images\
'c:\webSites\site_B\shared_images\' acts right on File Window of Dreamweaver CC.
If some files are put into the 'c:\webSites\site_A\shared_images\' ,they will appear in 'c:\webSites\site_B\shared_images\' on File Window of Dreamweaver CC.
but at terminal on Mac OSX,
MacBookPro:webSites nao$ mkdir site_A
MacBookPro:webSites nao$ mkdir site_B
MacBookPro:webSites nao$ mkdir site_A/shared_images
MacBookPro:webSites nao$ ln -s /(somewhere)/webSites/site_A/shared_images/ site_B/shared_images
'/(somewhere)/webSites/site_B/shared_images/' doesn't act right on File Window of Dreamweaver CC.
But '/(somewhere)/webSites/site_B/shared_images/' acts right on 'Finder'.
And in the 'Design view', the images located in '/(somewhere)/webSites/site_B/shared_images/' are displayed right.
I am at a loss.

Can I Create A Symbolic Link to folders stored on an SMB Share folder?

Hello,
I am very new to Unix and was hoping that someone could point me in the right direction with regards to Symbolic links and an SMB share folder ....
Have purchased an ext. LAN Drive enclosure (http://www.macpower.com.tw/products/hdd3/pleiades/pd_usblan) which connects to my wireless router via ethernet like my G5 (main Mac) - our iBook connects via Airport. I have copied all my general documents/files to the SMB share folder on the ext. drive so that I can access them from the G5 and also the iBook.
However I'd also like to be able to store my actual Mail folder (/Users/Mark/Library/Mail/), , Safari folder (/Users/Mark/Library/Safari) + my Address Book and other folders sitting in the Application Support folder on my SMB share so all important docs/folders are in the one place. I've tried storing these folders on the SMB share and putting an Alias to these back in Users/Mark/Library/Mail etc but of course an Alias doesn't work.
Question 1: Can I create a symbolic link to these files if these are stored on an SMB share folder? If so, could you please tell me exactly what I'd need to type into Terminal? My SMB Share path is smb://STORAGE-XXXX/MARK
I have copied my iPhoto library and iTunes library to the SMB share and are working fine.
Question 2: Is it possible/worth attempting to move my whole home folder to the SMB share folder? Ideally, I'd like to be able to access my Mail from the iBook as well. If I could log into either the G5 or the iBook and access my latest Mail, Address Book and other Application Settings, that would be perfect. Would this be possible?
Thanks
Mark.
Dual 1.8GHz G5 (Rev.B), 2Gig RAM, 9600XT Mac OS X (10.4)

Dear Mark,
Yes you can. The command to create a link will look something like this:
$ ln -s thisFolder /Users/mark/thatFolder
I did this while I was hosting a microsoft based game. This put all of the players into a common directory.
SMB just resolved the link and everything worked fine.
However, as I understand it, some other applications do NOT work very well with links. As I have NOT tried it with other applications, I fear I can be of NO help to you in this matter.
The only way to find out which applications work with links is to try them and see what happens.
Best of luck,
Kurt

Maintaining Multiple Arch Installs, Symbolic Links, BTRFS

Hi again.
A quick update on my previous post (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164627). The GRUB problem I was having seems to have stopped. I got a very useful recommendation regarding pacman and XBMC still hasn't been fixed, but is fully usable with the workaround I am using and have just gotten used to it so it's not so much of an issue now. I think now that it should be marked as solved but how do I do that? Was looking around but guess I'm just missing it.
Anyway now I have a few more issues, or more just questions I guess that I would like help on. Recently I found an old laptop of mine and so to learn more about the Arch system I decided to try and install Arch. Now this laptop is around 5-6 years old and I haven't been able to get WiFi working fully for around 3 years and eventually upgraded 2 years ago to my current laptop. The WiFi was always 'soft-locked' until after about 4-5 restarts (in windows it was fine, but any Linux Distribution post Ubuntu 10.10 had the same issue). The issues still remains in other distributions even after "rfkill all". In Arch ever since running that command (the first boot from install media the issue occurred) this laptops WiFi has been brilliant. I also installed XFCE4 desktop for speed of set up. Now I'm looking to give my laptop to my younger brother before he heads of to University in September until he can afford a new one (or he breaks this one - somehow his laptops never last), as this old one now runs better than it ever did on Windows Vista. My girlfriend is also looking for me to install Linux again on her laptop (we used WUBI in the past) but a full install since her Windows Vista laptop is near unusable in Windows. So far I have got hamachi set up between my new and old laptop, this gives static IP addresses and will allow me to SSH into the laptop for upgrades every so often. I'm planning to do the same for my girlfriends laptop. Would I be stupid to do this via Arch? I've heard it breaks often and I don't want to have to be doing fixes for other peoples laptops as I won't have the time to do so. I guess the reason I want to use Arch is both laptops are quite old and Arch has breathed new life into my old one.
Secondly I have symbolic links set up in my "Music" and "Video" folders in my home directory to their counterparts in my Windows partition. However my music player "Clementine" doesn't find every album in the music folder. Does symbolic links have "flaws" like this or is it more likely to be my music player behaving badly with symbolic links? I would try another music player but I can't seem to find one which plays FLAC files with external / embedded .cue files so can't really test this out. I can of course link directly to the location but I thought I would ask, just to learn more I guess.
Now when I installed Arch using BTRFS file system I didn't know that I had to mount using compression immediately, I thought I could add it to the fstab at a later point - obviously not. Now I found a command which will defragment my drive and supposedly compress everything. However this command doesn't make any sense to me and I don't want to just run it without knowing what it does. Could anyone other me any insight into this please? Also does defragmentation after the fstab mount options have been added cause the compression?
"find -xdev -type f -exec btrfs fi defrag '{}' \;"
or I also found
"btrfs filesystem defragment ~/stuff"
Thanks for any help, I understand this post is quite long so I really appreciate it.
Last edited by BradPJ (2013-06-13 10:19:47)

Ah right thanks. I thought as much which is why I asked before I did so, I'll find another distribution. Just where I've been running Arch for a few weeks now and haven't had to do any maintenance at all really, but weren't too sure what I'd be in for in the long-run. I mean to be fair I was always planning on another distribution but as I was playing around at first on the old laptop I ended up with my current way to SSH in and just wondered if it would be viable to do it this way.
I knew it would be a driver issue at the core of my problem, just weren't too sure if it something else could of been affecting it. Guess I'll try and find another distribution which runs near as new software to Arch as possible as it seems the issue has been fixed in newer versions of the kernel and drivers. Granted the old laptop had been unused for around a year so any update in the last year could of fixed it in this case. Thanks for your input!
Last edited by BradPJ (2013-06-13 11:35:16)

The screen size is too small on the webpage created by QTSS publisher

Hello,
I published a video file using QTSS publisher.
I'm using "Publish media to Quick Time Streaming Server (instant-on) and Webpage action "Auto-play in Web page".
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<param name="AUTOPLAY" value="true">
<param name="CONTROLLER" value="true">
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There wasn't an option on sizing when creating the webpage using QTSS publisher. Does it need to be manually edited?
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
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<link href="includes/modern.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script src="includes/AC_QuickTime.js" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<table width="692" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" background="images/background.gif" align="center">
<tr>
<td></td><td></td><td width="10"></td><td valign="top" align="right"></td><td valign="top" align="right"></td>
</tr>
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<td width="10"></td><td colspan="3" width="672">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
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<td hieght="12"></td><td valign="top" align="right"></td>
</tr>
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<td class="content">
shoot
</td><td></td>
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<td hieght="12"></td><td valign="bottom" align="right"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td><td valign="top" align="right"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
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</tr>
<tr><tr><td></td><td>
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QTWriteOBJECT("http://domain:80/qtmedia/shoots.mov", '129', '96', '', 'target', 'myself', 'type', 'video/quicktime', 'autoplay', 'true', 'controller', 'true', 'scale', 'aspect', 'bgcolor', '#CCCCCC');
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</tr>
<tr>
<td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td>
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<td width="68"></td><td width="56" height="36" background="images/number-box.gif">01</td><td width="5"></td><td bgcolor="#404040">shoot.mov
2:03 / NaN kb/sec</td><td align="right" valign="bottom" bgcolor="#404040"></td>
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<td width="10"></td><td></td><td></td><td valign="top" align="right"></td>
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<td></td><td></td><td>For optimal viewing experience,
please download
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<td></td><td></td><td></td><td valign="bottom" align="right"></td>
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Mailbox symbolic links not working

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So, I moved the mailbox to my Dropbox and then created a symbolic link to it in ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes.
The library shows up in Mail under "on my mac" - terrific. However, the mailbox and it's sub-folders are empty - according to Mail (not when I look in the Finder).
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Can I move the common library or use a symbolic link so that Dropbox can sync it?

A team of us are now using Fireworks for interaction design, and need to synchronise the common library so that the elements we use are up to date.
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2. we use dropbox, and I don't think I can tell dropbox to synchronise just the common library folder (as an isolated path from the rest of the dropbox tree...) - so, is there a trick using a symbolic link we could use so that dropbox thinks the common library is actually in it's own tree? (OSX is BSD afterall...)
We're on Mac OSX 10.7.X, running FW CS6 and using the latest dropbox for Mac.
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Thanks groove25.
I did find that it is possible to use symbolic links and Dropbox to synchronise the common library across computers. It does come with its idiosynchrasies though (excuse thepun).
I'm going to have a go with what this thread recommends:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120803093247391
and leichter's explanation and walkthrough (nested in the thread) looks very helpful:
There's a subtle point that, once you understand it, makes symlinks much more useful in Dropbox.
The whole design of symlinks in Unix tries to make them invisible to programs that don't specifically try to manipulate them. So suppose 'sym' is a symlink to 'file'. If a program opens 'sym' for read, it actually gets the data in 'file'. If it appends to 'sym', it actually appends to 'file'. However, if it deletes 'sym', what disappears is the link 'sym', not the file 'file'. Opening 'sym' for writing as a new file - not appending to it - is equivalent to deleting the old file and creating a new one: It leaves 'file' unchanged and creates an entirely new file named 'sym' which no longer has any connection with 'file'.
A link to a directory follows the same rules. Looking a file up using the symlink as the name really searches the linked-to directory. Creating a file through the symlink is like appending: It creates the entry in the linked directory. And so on.
A program that wishes to do something special - like change where a symlink points - has to be aware that it's dealing with a symlink and use special OS calls for that exact purpose.
Dropbox works with symlinks *but it doesn't do anything special with them*. So suppose you put that 'sym' linked to 'file' in your Dropbox directory. Dropbox comes along, finds a new file, and sends it to its servers. What does it send? Well, first the name 'sym', and then the "contents" - i.e., what it gets from reading 'sym' which is exactly the contents of 'file'. On the server, and then later on other clients, what you will find is a normal file named 'sym' with the contents of 'file'. *There is no connection with a file named 'file'.* If you change 'file' on the system where 'sym' links to it, the changes propagate. If you change it anywhere else, the changes propagate back - but Dropbox doesn't modify files in place, it writes entire new ones. So the effect back on the original system is to break the link and write a new file named 'sym' with the latest contents - but no connection to 'file'.
I know of no way to keep a link to a *file* as a symlink across updates. But the story is different for *directories*. Unlike ordinary files, directories are normally updated in place (unless you explicit delete and recreate them). So you can do the following:
1. Create directory 'dir' anywhere you like.
2. Create symlink 'dirlink' pointing to 'dir' in your Dropbox folder.
3. Wait for 'dirlink' to appear on all other clients. It will appear as an ordinary directory, not as a symlink. If the original 'dir' had files in it, those will now appear as files on the clients, too.
4. On each client, rename 'dirlink' to 'dir' *in the place you want it to appear in your directory tree*. (Renaming only works if you are staying not the same device. Otherwise, you need to create 'dir' and move all the files.) This need not be the same on all clients, though it's easier to keep track of if it is.
5. On each client, create symlink 'dirlink' pointing to 'dir'.
Now you have a 'dirlink' on each client, which will to Dropbox look like a subdirectory - and it will sync all the files in that "subdirectory". Changes made on any client to any file in 'dir' aka 'dirlink' will be synced to all the other clients as well. Files created or deleted in 'dir' will be created/deleted on every other client as well.
It's probably easiest to do all this while there are no files in 'dir'. Otherwise, Dropbox sometimes repeatedly syncs the same files until everything eventually settles down.
The limitations here:
- Some platforms (e.g., iOS) don't support symlinks. To them, 'dirlink' will just be an ordinary subdirectory.
- Any time you add a new client, you have to go through the process for that client. Certain reset operations in Dropbox - anything that requires re-syncing every file in the Dropbox folder on a client - will require the same, because Dropbox doesn't know how to *create* symlinks - it'll just create an ordinary subdirectories.
I've used this configuration for a couple of years. You have to watch out for the reset situations and such, but generally once you have it set up, it "just works".
-- Jerry
All the best,
Dylan

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DSS and QTSS Publisher

Hi there
I installed DSS recently on my iMac 1.8GHz. After some minor problems, it works nicely now.
Well, I would like to have the playlists a little more "dynamic". I've been desperately looking for any software, that makes the editing of playlists easier. Editing them via the DSS interface is - well - annoying...
I found the QTSS Publisher and I thought to myself, well this might work. Unfortunately it doesn't. The application says "Server is not responding" and won't start.
I believe that QTSS publisher won't be able to work with DSS (unfortunately), but I would like to hear some other thinkings...
Anyone has a solution or suggestion for this issue? (In the worst case: just tell me that i'm right, and it won't ever work...)
Thanx, Lukas
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

First thing to check are your firewalls. Do you have the internal firewall turned on? If so, are the proper services allowed?

Effect on symbolic link when changing volume name

I just wanted to verify this information before I proceed with changing the name of my hard drive. I have 3 partitions of my MBP's internal drive. There is the system partition "Mac HD", a boot camp partition and a data only partition called "Storage". I have quite a few symbolic links on "Mac HD" which point to "Storage", where the data is stored. If I change the name of "Mac HD" and/or "Storage", will the symbolic links update to the new name of the volume automatically? Or, will the change of volume name break the symbolic links so I have to create them all over again? Everything I have read leads me to believe they will update, but I don't want to mess anything up and find out the hard way. A little confirmation would make me feel much better before I make the change.
Thanks,
sterling

etresoft wrote:
I don't want to get off on a tangent about pros and cons of cloning, I just want to plant a seed of worry to review it at a later date. It is one thing to restore a disk image for a kiosk machine, it is something else entirely to restore an image of some machine that has had people using it. Misconfiguration, corrupt filesystems, and failed hard drives are some of the most frequent causes of failures. Having a clone of a system that has just failed for one of those reasons doesn't give me a warm fuzzy. It would be a much better idea to have a procedure (or script) to build a new server from scratch and load it from a backup (not a bitwise clone) of known, good data.
Our computer use is typical. There are only a few employees who use the computers regularly, and a few people others who use it less often. the daily use is mostly for back end management like bookkeeping and processing orders. The rest of the operations are design based, like graphics and documents. We don't have a business like a kiosk where people are all over the computers all day. With deep freeze on the system though, there is no worry about anyone doing anything to the system that would corrupt it. Also, the actual drives with the OS rarely get changed or backed up, because they remain the same for the most part. All of the files that are created like documents, designs, orders and such, are saved to storage. The storage is what I back up frequently, because that's where everything is stored. I may have a false sense of security, but I always thought I was more protected than most, because all of my files are stored on a drive without any operating system. I figured there is very little that can go wrong which could corrupt my data since the drive is data only. I always have 2 backups up both the OS drive and the data storage drive. One is like a daily backup, the other is more like once a week or so update which is kept in the safe. I always verify that the backup by opening a few files on it, but I never really know for sure that everything is safe because I can't open everything! I have no clue how to start a server based system backup like you are talking about, but it sounds like a much safer backup method. A little overkill for use considering we don't do that much on the computers? Maybe, but only because I would have to hire someone to come set it up for me. Maybe it's not so hard as it sounds, but I know I don't have the time to learn how to do something like that myself. I didn't realize the backup techniques I am using are so inferior. I feel like my data is pretty safe, but I guess I can look into other options.
I don't consider it "fun", I consider it a "requirement".
I am a bit of a prepper, okay a lot of a prepper. I am prepared for just about anything that can come my way. I do not consider testing my preps fun either. I was just saying, I anticipate that there will be some sort of loss when I restore, based on what you're telling me.
Disasters do have a remarkable ability to strike when you are least prepared. There is a logical reason for that. The more prepared you are, the less disastrous the event.
Agreed, 100%. That's why we're talking about it. I was starting to think that I was over thinking it! Clearly I'm not the only one!
Interesting. Unfortunately, the symbolic link method is pretty invasive because it requires those links to be up and functioning before the clone. A better solution would be to identify all those files, and have a launchd script that replaces the original files with either modified versions or links at system boot time.
With deep freeze, the symlinks are re-created every time I boot, even if they are broken before shutdown. So, it's pretty safe as long as they work before I freeze the system. I also have the two backups in case something goes wrong. I'm confident the links work. And the worst thing that can go wrong if they break is that I have to re-create the broken ones. either way, the data that is linked is still on my storage drive and both of my backups. The only thing I wouldn't be able to recover would be the symbolic link itself.
You need to think of this in terms of the file system. The "name" of a volume doesn't really mean anything. What matters is the mount point. The mount point, however, depends on a particular hardware configuration. You could control it better with some clever mounting scripts, but it sure seems like there is a much easier way to accomplish your ultimate goal.
I guess you're saying I could get by without deep freeze, and that it complicated things. Yes, it does. I am always trying to find workarounds because of it. However, I like the fact that my computer is the same every time I turn it on no matter what someone has done to it.
You have extensive control over your mount points.
I will have to look into this, because if I can get the firewire clone to run with the symlinks in place, I could have a fully working system with nothing more than a restart of the computer.
That, I don't know. Restoring a disk image that has embedded symbolic links to another drive is a fragile solution. You know what files you need to symlink, write a script that will set up the links at boot time - or at any time. Exactly what files are these? I strongly think there is an even easier solution lurking around. Why are you so concerned about retaining user data through restarts? Why are you even restarting?
There's actually not as many as I thought. I have symlinked data and prefs from mail, ical, address book, blackberry desktop. Then, some document folders. I could cut a lot of these down by linking my entire documents folder and building my hierarchy within that, but I've built my own which is neatly organized into the 4 departments of our business. It's really not that much. The only thing is that my mail, ical and address book won't work on the clone, because they are dependent on the simlinks. Everything else is just files that I would access directly from the storage drive anyway, so no loss there!
Wow! I made it through here! I'll review over the ideas you recommended and see if I can actually implement any of them myself. My guess is, I don't have the skills to pull them off. I'll look into it though. thanks for your time, and I will let you know what happens.

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I use symbolic links and program shortcuts as a way to easily open different Firefox profiles ie. one for casual/personal use and another for work. This works well, but I get the "Firefox is already running, but is not responding" error message if I try to open external links with FF as my default browser. FF is actually open and running fine, but I guess it doesn't acknowledge this fact because of how I'm originally starting the process.
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http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use

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Hello everyone,
At my the art college I work at, I administer some HDTV's that run from Mac Mini's that load QTSS Playlists from the QTSS Server as .sdp files.
Or at least I DID until we upgraded to Leopard Server 10.5, which promised better performance when streaming HD content.
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