Raided mac mini server now can't use bluetooth keyboard

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Reinstalled maverick on Mac mini 2010 now can't restore files from previous backups

Reinstalled maverick on Mac mini 2010 now can't restore files from previous backups can't even roll back to previous setup

This is typical Mavericks.
Was the old backup taken from Mavericks install?
Did you already start TM from the new install and thus totally foul up and corrupt your old backup?
You will need to try migrate assistant.. and if that fails you will need to manually pull your files from the old backup if you can still access them.
See Q15 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html

Set up Mac Mini Server, now what?

I helped someone set up a Mac Mini Server just out of the box.
turned on, connected directly to their router, put in all the new info to set up the mac mini and then looked at it....
So we read we need to create SERVER USERS, not users for a separate account on the mac mini, but server users. did that, or so we think we did...
one person who wants to run it is running 10.5.5 on is mac book, so I went to the iMac running 10.6 and went to sys prefs and connected to the server ... or so we think we did.
the green light is on but NOW WHAT?
the server doesn't show anyone connected.
but they can see the server on the side bar and when they connect to that, they have to use the password for the mac mini not their server password we created so they are not connected to it as a server they are connected as a hard drive, but the server admin software shows that NOW there is a user connected...
Am I missing something. how do you take advantage of the server software if you have to connect like you would to someone else's computer?
and then why create server users on the server if they are not connecting to it through that?
What are we missing?

I am not sure if this is exactly what the original poster was looking for, but perhaps I can try to clarify for him because I am coming from a similar place (and I think there might be a lot more of us now that server is a $50 add on, so a lot of novices setting up home or small business servers for the first time).
I think this problem might be worsened by the fact that though apple has done a decent job of explaining how to set things up in the server app itself, they seemed to have skipped over what you are supposed to do on your user computers that you are trying to connect with the server.
Anyway, I would like to start out with using server on my mac mini for file sharing and time machine backups (and then expand from there, once that is up and running), so I have gone through the setup of these in the server app: creating the user accounts, assigning them access to a couple of external HDs that I have attached to my Mac Mini, i tried to match the account names to the user accounts that are on the laptops that we are trying to wirelessly connect to the server, etc.
So my expectation is that then I would restart my computer, it would match up the username on the laptop with the username account on the server, i would login and then the file shares would automatically mount. Or, I could go into my Login options on my admin account of one of the laptops that I am trying to connect to the server and I could join it to the server. Both of these options seemed to be spelled out in the only explanation of what is supposed to happen from the user perspective, which was in the Snow Leopard documentation:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Mac_OSX_Server_v10.6_Getting_Started.pdf on pg 111 or so.
But neither of these routes are working for me, so I am wondering what I am doing wrong.
Jonathan

If i buy a mac mini 2.8 can i use fcp x ?

Hello
DUE TO BUDGET CONSTRAINTS
If i buy a mac mini
2.8GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
8GB memory
1TB Fusion Drive1
Intel Iris Graphics
OS X Yosemite
can i run fcp x efficiently? or would fcp 7 work better?
if i can .... i have (4) 1 tb hard drives that i would run on a raid if possible for external storage
thanks
sarareika

EXternal hard drive(s) is a must for a smooth UX.
nice2have would be 16GBRam, but for 'average' use 8 does it.
see my specs: aside Ram, my Mac has less 'power' and works perfect.
for my needs.

Connecting G4 Tower to Mac Mini so Both Can be Used.

hi i was wondering if anyone knew the best way for me to use/ connect my old G4 Tower (yikes it's like 8 years old!!!) as a backup or extra hard drive with my new Mac Mini 9 (which runs slowly btw, needs more something???) Is this a useless endeavor or is it do-able?
Thanks!
franzialux

For an even faster transfer speed connect them via FireWire Target Disk Mode: How to use FireWire target disk mode
Unfortunately, the production name for the "Yikes" G4 towers are the "Power Mac G4 (PCI Graphics)" which are not capable of FireWire Target Disk Mode. The "Power Mac G4 (AGP Graphics)", that came out right after the "Yikes" models, were the first that supported FWTDM. Now, perhaps franzialux is not aware of these terms and using "yikes" as description was only an expression, but it's possible the G4 tower doesn't support FWTDM.
-Doug

Mac Mini Server boot from USB with windows keyboard

So. I formated my mac mini, prepared a OSX usb drive and now I cant get the machine to boot to the USB drive...I have a windows keyboard plugged into the usb and there is no option key... (I also have a mac bluetooth keyboard that is paired to another mini but I have no idea how to pair it to this one prior to boot sequence....ANy help...Im boggled-first time as a mac user.

...I have a windows keyboard plugged into the usb and there is no option key...
Windows Alt key usually works as Mac Option key.

Can I use bluetooth keyboard on iPhone 4?

I want to know if it's possible to connect the Bluetooth keyboard on my iPhone to use it on iWork and surfing on web.

Once the keyboard is connected, it should work with any app that uses the standard keyboard interface, so it will work with iWork.
br121: iWork was released for iPad quite some time ago, and updated for iPhone 4 recently.
Pages - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pages/id361309726?mt=8
Keynote - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/keynote/id361285480?mt=8
Numbers - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/numbers/id361304891?mt=8

HT4805 Mac mini server startup

I purchased a used Mac mini server and can get past the startup screen for the setup process. There is a little spinning wheel in the lower left hand corner of the initial server setup screen. Anyone see this before?

Did you erase the boot drive and reinstall from the original media? That should be the first thing you do after buying a used computer. You of course ran the Apple Hardware Test before buying it.

Mac Mini Server with Leopard

I installed a Mac Mini Server in my media room. Connected it on my Ethernet, where i also have two other mac mini's a Mac Book Pro throughout the house. They all do "see" and "talk" to each other, and share files, like they are supposed to do. The only problem is: when i rent movies via i-Tunes on my Mac Mini SERVER, i can NOT see them on my other Mac Mini's throughout the house. I still can see the mac mini server on the left of the i-Tune menu, as well as the music and other files on it, photos etc... but if i want to watch that RENTED movie in my bedroom via my local mac Mini, no can do. is that normal.
By the way after hours of trying, and spending over 10,000 dollars worth of mac products in my home, i called "On Line Support", and after some 25 minutes of pre-heating my ear on the phone, the nice gentleman wanted to charge me 49 dollars to answer my question??

And that is how phone support works unless you purchase AppleCare for your Mac. Without AppleCare, you get 90 days of free phone support (starting from the date of purchase of the Mac); after that, you get charged unless the problem turns out to one that is covered under the Mac's warranty.
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How can I create RAID 1 on Mac mini server just now from box.

I bought my Mac mini server two days ago and decided that 1Tb + 1Tb HDD are very good for RAID 1 (mirroring).
Thinking - doing ... Open Disk Utility, try to change and create RAID. Nothing. Try to reinstall OS X - recovery part are on disk all time.
Does anybody can help me to create what I want and how to do this with minimum energy. Thanks a lot.

Start from an Internet Recovery which boots you into it's own Recovery Partition. From there use Disk Utility to put your 2 drives into RAID 1. Reinstall OS X from the Internet Recovery once you have done that and install everything else as you need to.
Be aware that RAID volumes do not have their own Recovery Partition so you will need to either have an external drive with an RP to boot into else you will need to use Internet Recovery each time (which is around a 650MB download).

What is "best practice" to set up and configure a Mac Mini server with dual 1 TB drives, using RAID 1?

I have been handed a new, out of the box, Mac Mini server. Has two 1 TB drives in it. Contractor suggested RAID 1 for the set up. I have done some research
and found out that in creating the software RAID, this takes away the recovery partition, so I have been reading up on how to create a recovery "disk" using a thumb drive. this part of the operation I am comfortable with, but there are other issues/concerns that I have.
Basically, what is the "best practice" to setup the Mini, configure the RAID and then start the server. I am assuming the steps would be something like this:
1) start up the Mini and run through the normal Maverick setup/config - keep it plain and vanilla
2) grab a copy of the Server app and store it offline in a safe place
3) perform the RAID configuration / reinstall of OS X Maverick using the recovery tools
4) copy down and start the server app
This might be considered a very simplified version of this article (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4886 - Mac mini server (Late 2012 and Mid 2011): How to install OS X Server on a software RAID volume), with the biggest difference being I grab a copy of the Server App off of the mini before I reinstall, since I did not purchase it from the App store, but rather it came with the mini.
Is there a best practice / how-to tutorial somewhere that I can follow/learn from? Am I on the right track or headed for a train wreck?
thanks in advance

I think this article will answer your question. Hope this helps: http://wisebyte.blogspot.com/2014/01/best-configuration-for-mac-mini-server.html

Can I set up RAID 1 in Mac Mini Server?

Sorry if I am in the wrong forum, but would like to know if the new Mac Mini server can be set up as RAID 1 or 0 and does it require reinstalling OS after formatting, or it comes already in RAID?
thanks,

Officially, yes, you need to off-load to a backup, configure the RAID-1, and reload onto the mirrorset.
If you're feeling lucky, you can potentially [activate RAID-1 without the archive|http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20040827122302975]; on-line. Search for (other) discussions of using the DiskUtil tool and enabling disk mirroring for various of the previous discussions.
But if something goes wrong with the on-line conversion, a bug or a power drop-out or a disk glitch or or... ?
RAID-0 is striping; two disks together presented as one bigger disk; targets I/O performance.
RAID-1 is mirroring; two disks together presented as one; targets reliability.
RAID-0 and RAID-1 (and the other RAID levels) can be hardware-based or software based.
The Mac Mini Server uses software-based RAID.
And for completeness, neither RAID-0 nor RAID-1 is an archival strategy.
As for the other question, do you have one disk showing, or two? If two, you're not running RAID-1. All of the Mac Mini Server boxes I've seen have arrived not configured for RAID-1. They've arrived as two single disks; as what the RAID folks tend to call JBOD; Just a Bunch Of Disks.

I set up Raid on my Mac Mini Server and lost my Server software. It is not listed in my "purchased" apps. How can I get it w/o having to purchase it? Will my serial

I set up Raid on my Mac Mini Server and lost my Server software. It is not listed in my "purchased" apps. How can I get it w/o having to purchase it? Will my serial # be enough to show it is a mini server and under warrantee be enough to get it back?

If it's not listed in Purchases, check that it's hidden, and if so, unhide it > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4928 After that, go to Purchases and download OS X Server.
If you can't download it, contact with the Mac App Store support > http://www.apple.com/support/mac/app-store/contact

RAID on Mac mini Server (2011 i7)

I just purchased a new Mac mini Server today (the base configuration 2011 Quad Core i7 with 4GB RAM and 2x 500GB 7200RPM magnetic hard disks) and wanted to share what I've learned about setting up RAID on the system.
First, as you may have heard, the Mac mini Server does not include any installation/reinstallation media (I was hoping for a USB reinstall key, but it seems that the new systems don't include these or optical discs; last year's Mac mini Server included handy reinstall DVDs even though the system didn't have an optical drive). Out of the box, the new Mac mini Server has Mac OS X Lion, the iLife suite, and the Mac OS X Lion Server tools pre-installed on one of the two 500GB internal drives; the other disk is formatted as a separate, second drive.
If this is the configuration you're looking for, you're good to go right out of the box. As an aside, this shipping configuration is ideal for using the second disk as a Time Machine drive. I would argue that Time Machine would be a better use of the second volume than a RAID 1 configuration, as Time Machine provides versioned backups and you don't incur the write performance penalty RAID 1 requires every time data is saved to the disk. I would further caution that, while an internal Time Machine disk is a convenient safety measure, any critical data should be backed up outside of the system as well.
Now for those like me who were intrigued by the opportunity to mate the Quad Core i7 with a RAID 0/striped configuration for a performance boost (or if you want to use RAID 1), a RAID configuration is possible, but it there are a few caveats.
First, Apple has two recovery options for the new Macs: a small hidden recovery partition on the boot drive and their Internet Recovery system. While it's possible to boot other systems from a Lion installation DVD extracted from the App Store Lion installer, such bootable optical discs will not boot the Mac mini Server at this time (this may change if Apple modifies the App Store Lion installer). Therefore, as of right now, the recovery partition or the Internet Recovery system are the best options for installing/reinstalling on a RAID set.
Second, if you boot the system using Command+R to access the recovery partition, you can wipe the two drives and create a RAID set, but this process will remove the recovery partition and is incompatible with FileVault encryption (a warning to this effect comes up when you try to start an install/reinstalll on a RAID set, but at that point, you've likely already erased the recovery partition in Disk Utility). If the system boots after the recovery partition is deleted, the only install/reinstall option is Apple's Internet Recovery.
Third, as might be expected depending upon your internet bandwidth, the Internet Recovery system can take a while to boot the recovery tools (10-15 minutes to boot on a standard cable modem connection) and to reinstall the OS (50+ minutes on a standard cable modem connection). Internet Recovery currently reinstalls only Mac OS X Lion and the Server tools on the mini Server; there's no option to install iLife during the OS install (Apple could always change this by updating their servers, and there is a Customize button on the installer, but it is greyed out and cannot be clicked at the present).
Fourth, once the OS is reinstalled, it's possible to reinstall the iLife applications by launching the App Store from within Mac OS and selecting Purchased. The store will indicate that the system is eligible to download the iLife apps and you can do so by agreeing to upload system-identifying information to Apple and signing in with your Apple ID.
I hope all this helps. Here's a more concise step-by-step of how to set up the system with RAID:
THINGS YOU NEED
A fast Internet connection for the mini
Patience
Hold Command+R on the keyboard at start up to boot from the system's recovery partition (if the recovery partition has been deleted, the system should start from Apple's Internet Recovery system; you may need to connect to WiFi if wired ethernet isn't available)
Once you get into the recovery utility, select Disk Utility and for each of the two hard drives:
highlight the drive
select the Partition tab
select 1 Partition from the Partition Layout pulldown menu
select Free Space from the Format pulldown menu
click Apply
After you've wiped both of the drives, highlight one of the disks and click the RAID tab, then create a RAID set (striped or mirrored, as you prefer)
Quit Disk Utility and from the main recovery utility menu select Reinstall Lion (from this point on, if you have any trouble, you can restart the mini from the Internet Recovery system and return to this point, but the recovery partition will be gone as long as you keep the RAID set)
After you install and configure Mac OS X Lion Server (which can take well over an hour to download and install), you should be able to reinstall the iLife applications by launching the App Store App and selecting Purchased, then logging in with your Apple ID and agreeing to send your system info to Apple to download the iLife Applications
If you're using the mini as a production server, I highly suggest setting up some local, external recovery tool, as you don't want to have system downtime protracted by having to wait for an Internet Recovery boot/reinstall. I would also beg Apple to consider this sort of scenario and to provide more supported methods for recovering and reinstalling from local media.
Best of luck to you all.

I found the basic principle on another forum thanks to a guy called 'e-whizz' and this what I did to make RAID 1 work on a mac mini server with LION server.
You can easily configure the second drive on a mac mini server for a Mirrored RAID 1 set with Lion Server without either reinstalling or erasing your existing setup.
The initial setup process takes about 30 minutes, though the rebuilding of the mirror disk will take several hours, depending on the amount of data you have on the drive. It took around 3 hours on a new mac mini server with lion server installed, nothing else configured.
Before you start, please ensure you have a current backup of the server. Getting the following commands wrong can render you server unusable.
What you need to use is the command line version of Disk Utility, diskutil.
Before you start, clone the hard drive. You can use SuperDuper (or similar, I have used SuperDuper) with copying all files onto a USB memory stick. If Lion is freshly installed, 8Gb will do. SuperDuper will create a bootable copy on the USB.
Boot the mac mini from the external USB. To do that, reboot and hold down the option key while restarting. You will see a window, select the USB drive to boot from.
Launch the terminal and type the following command:
diskutil list
This gives you a list of all the drives and partitions your system knows about.
You need to find the Server HD partition (the first disk) and the HD2 partitions (the second disk). These are the two main ~500GB drives. You will be using the disk IDENTIFIERs when issuing the diskutil commands. For a stock standard Mac Mini Server, the commands below are correct, but if you have previously changed the volume names, or repartitioned at any stage the disk identifiers and volume names may differ.
First enable RAID mirroring on existing Server HD volume. This will create a single disk, unpaired mirror, without affecting your data.
Using this syntax:
diskutil appleRAID enable mirror disktomirror
where disktomirror is your disk identifier for Server HD
On my mac mini server, Server HD was disk0s2, so I used this command:
diskutil appleRAID enable mirror disk0s2
You now need to run diskutil list again to see the disk identifier for the new RAID volume. The new RAID volume will be listed as disk# on its own at the bottom of the list.
On my mac mini server this was disk3 (disk 2 was the USB I booted from, disk 0 the first disk and disk 1 the second disk)
Next add the disk HD2 to the Server HD raid mirror volume (on my mac, as I said before, this is disk3) as a new member.
This step will erase disk HD2 and begin an auto repair of the Server HD.
Using this syntax:
diskutil appleRAID add member newdisk raidvolume
replacing newdisk and raidvolume with your particular disk identifiers
On my server this was:
diskutil appleRAID add member disk1s2 disk3
To follow the progress of rebuilding the mirror set, type
diskutil list
It will show you the progress in % of the rebuilding under status
Once finished, reboot and your RAID 1 is up and running and you have also a working backup on your USB (coz' that's where you booted from ;-)
After reboot you can check the status of your RAID with
diskutil appleRAID list
Both drives should show ONLINE under status, interestingly, the device node for the RAID changed on my mac mini server from disk3 to disk2
That's it

Time capsule 2TB,connected to mac mini server leopard, LG DP1W mediacenter/player for watching movies on my tv from my harddisk tower connected to time capsule by usb/hub on G-technologie 8 TB G-SPEED Q RAID-oplossing(hard disk tower) is this gonna work??

hello,
ik have a question about the hardware i wanna buy
i have a IMAC that is 3 years old and running on leopard snow 10.5, i want to upgrade the software from this mac to 10.6 and put 4GB workmemory into it, i have now 1GB.
I have ordered a MAC MINI SERVER leopard snow 10.6(also ordered a dvd superdrive, wireless typing, and a wireless mouse for the mac mini)
i have ordered a Time Capsule 2TB
i want to connect to the Time capsule this:
G-technologie 8 TB G-SPEED Q RAID-oplossing (hdtower)
UPC of EAN nr.: 705487185744 in the mac store
i want to connect to the Time Capsule this for my TV to play movies from the harddisktower connected to my time capsule:
LG DP1W MEDIAPLAYER/CENTER without harddisk build into it, with WiFi connection butt, i'm gonna use te 2.0 USB connection that is faster and stabile.
-Connecting the Time Capsule to the Internet
i'm also gonna use this: gear4 PG467 UNITY REMOTE(control everything with iphone)
i'm also want to connect by 2.0 USB my canon all in one foto printer, WiFi is not working properly and i have many times problems with connection my printer wireless.....
And for the future i also want to connect a Dymo Labelprinter by 2.0 USB
in total 7 usb connections: only the time capsule have one port, so i can split to more ports by a usb-hub????
Well i have another question: i want to store a movie database on the external harddisktower that is connected to the time capsule.....
How can... let me say: my sister, and father who live on 2 different adresses get access to the movie database and watch them at their own home?????
can i secure it with a password given to my sister or father that is only works for 1 file???? so that i get multiple passwords
how does this works??? to share/upload/download to the internet only to one person????
i hope someone can help me????

hello,
ik have a question about the hardware i wanna buy
i have a IMAC that is 3 years old and running on leopard snow 10.5, i want to upgrade the software from this mac to 10.6 and put 4GB workmemory into it, i have now 1GB.
I have ordered a MAC MINI SERVER leopard snow 10.6(also ordered a dvd superdrive, wireless typing, and a wireless mouse for the mac mini)
i have ordered a Time Capsule 2TB
i want to connect to the Time capsule this:
G-technologie 8 TB G-SPEED Q RAID-oplossing (hdtower)
UPC of EAN nr.: 705487185744 in the mac store
i want to connect to the Time Capsule this for my TV to play movies from the harddisktower connected to my time capsule:
LG DP1W MEDIAPLAYER/CENTER without harddisk build into it, with WiFi connection butt, i'm gonna use te 2.0 USB connection that is faster and stabile.
-Connecting the Time Capsule to the Internet
i'm also gonna use this: gear4 PG467 UNITY REMOTE(control everything with iphone)
i'm also want to connect by 2.0 USB my canon all in one foto printer, WiFi is not working properly and i have many times problems with connection my printer wireless.....
And for the future i also want to connect a Dymo Labelprinter by 2.0 USB
in total 7 usb connections: only the time capsule have one port, so i can split to more ports by a usb-hub????
Well i have another question: i want to store a movie database on the external harddisktower that is connected to the time capsule.....
How can... let me say: my sister, and father who live on 2 different adresses get access to the movie database and watch them at their own home?????
can i secure it with a password given to my sister or father that is only works for 1 file???? so that i get multiple passwords
how does this works??? to share/upload/download to the internet only to one person????
i hope someone can help me????

Raided mac mini server now can't use bluetooth keyboard

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