RRM and backup controller

Hi all,
Got a quick question on RRM.Suppose we have 2x5508s where one controller is acts as dedicated backup controller.There is no requirement for L3 roaming and therefore, mobility group feature will be disabled.My understanding is that as mobility group is disabled, there is no other way for the backup controller to obtain RRM specific info from the primary controller. Therefore, I believe we need to configure a separate RF group on each controller and configure identical RRM settings so when the APs failover, affects on RRM would be minimal.Any advice on recommended way of performing RRM?
Thanks,
J

Hi Bbixe,
Many thanks for the clarification
I got another question,with regards to RRM is there a benefit of monitoring country specific channels ?This is the Cisco default on the WLC.
Woudn't you be better off to configure monitoring only for DCA channels?
Thanks,
J

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Been using an Avastor HDX-800 for storage and backup, also a SUPERDISK for smaller stuff; recently the SUPERDISK does not appear on the screen, and the light blinks while you hear it spin, also the Avastor has started to have the same problem, both USB

Been using an Avastor HDX-800 for storage and backup, also a SUPERDISK for smaller stuff; recently the SUPERDISK does not appear on the screen, and the light blinks while you hear it spin, also the Avastor has started to have the same problem, both USB conncected, both worked well before, but both now spinning, blinking, and not showing up on the screen as before,
Interestingly they both appear in the System Profiler, but just not working the same as before
I have tried other USB ports, but the same responce,

yes I did reset the PRAM, but no benefit, still the same problem
my usb devices are: keyboard, mouse, printer, SD-USB-M3, and LaCie d2 DVDRW:
the mouse and printed are plugged into the keyboard: i have tried to move, these around, and have even tried just the mouse, printer and SD-USB-M3, but still the same problem
here is a cut and paste of the current "System Profiler>Hardware>USB"   (usb device tree)
USB Bus:
Host Controller Location:          Built In USB
Host Controller Driver:          AppleUSBOHCI
PCI Device ID:          0x0026
PCI Revision ID:          0x0000
PCI Vendor ID:          0x106b
Bus Number:          0x18
Hub in Apple Pro Keyboard:
Version:          1.22
Bus Power (mA):          500
Speed:          Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Mitsumi Electric
Product ID:          0x1002
Vendor ID:          0x05ac (Apple Computer, Inc.)
HL-1270N series:
Version:          1.00
Bus Power (mA):          100
Speed:          Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Brother
Product ID:          0x0008
Serial Number:          L9J286292
Vendor ID:          0x04f9
Basic Optical Mouse:
Version:          0.00
Bus Power (mA):          100
Speed:          Up to 1.5 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Microsoft
Product ID:          0x0084
Vendor ID:          0x045e
Apple Pro Keyboard:
Version:          1.22
Bus Power (mA):          250
Speed:          Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Mitsumi Electric
Product ID:          0x0204
Vendor ID:          0x05ac (Apple Computer, Inc.)
SuperDisk USB 120MB drive:
Version:          0.0e
Bus Power (mA):          500
Speed:          Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Imation
Product ID:          0x0002
Vendor ID:          0x0718
Hub in Apple Pro Keyboard:
Version:          1.22
Bus Power (mA):          500
Speed:          Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Mitsumi Electric
Product ID:          0x1002
Vendor ID:          0x05ac (Apple Computer, Inc.)
HL-1270N series:
Version:          1.00
Bus Power (mA):          100
Speed:          Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Brother
Product ID:          0x0008
Serial Number:          L9J286292
Vendor ID:          0x04f9
Basic Optical Mouse:
Version:          0.00
Bus Power (mA):          100
Speed:          Up to 1.5 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Microsoft
Product ID:          0x0084
Vendor ID:          0x045e
Apple Pro Keyboard:
Version:          1.22
Bus Power (mA):          250
Speed:          Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Mitsumi Electric
Product ID:          0x0204
Vendor ID:          0x05ac (Apple Computer, Inc.)
HL-1270N series:
Version:          1.00
Bus Power (mA):          100
Speed:          Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Brother
Product ID:          0x0008
Serial Number:          L9J286292
Vendor ID:          0x04f9
Basic Optical Mouse:
Version:          0.00
Bus Power (mA):          100
Speed:          Up to 1.5 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Microsoft
Product ID:          0x0084
Vendor ID:          0x045e
Apple Pro Keyboard:
Version:          1.22
Bus Power (mA):          250
Speed:          Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Mitsumi Electric
Product ID:          0x0204
Vendor ID:          0x05ac (Apple Computer, Inc.)
SuperDisk USB 120MB drive:
Version:          0.0e
Bus Power (mA):          500
Speed:          Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          Imation
Product ID:          0x0002
Vendor ID:          0x0718
USB Bus:
Host Controller Location:          Built In USB
Host Controller Driver:          AppleUSBOHCI
PCI Device ID:          0x0026
PCI Revision ID:          0x0000
PCI Vendor ID:          0x106b
Bus Number:          0x19
LaCie d2 DVDRW USB:
Capacity:          451.76 MB
Removable Media:          Yes
Detachable Drive:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk2
Version:          0.00
Bus Power (mA):          500
Speed:          Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          LaCie
OS9 Drivers:          No
Product ID:          0x1011
Serial Number:          FFFFFFFFFFFF
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
Vendor ID:          0x059f
LaCie d2 DVDRW USB:
Capacity:          451.76 MB
Removable Media:          Yes
Detachable Drive:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk2
Version:          0.00
Bus Power (mA):          500
Speed:          Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer:          LaCie
OS9 Drivers:          No
Product ID:          0x1011
Serial Number:          FFFFFFFFFFFF
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
Vendor ID:          0x059f

Backup Controller cannot mount XSAN Volume

Hi Guys,
I've really have a big problem regarding the XSAN that I've just setup: There are 3 Xserves connected to the SAN - one for the main controller, one for backup and another one for fileserver. After a fresh install of the Leopard Server 10.5.6 on all servers and fresh install of Xsan 2.0 updated to 2.1.1, I tried creating an SAN from the main controller, I added first the main and backup controllers, authenticated them properly and was successful adding them to the SAN. After this, I created the volume and it mounted properly on the main controller. What I don't understand is that whenever I try to mount the volume to the backup controller, it is saying unable to mount and even I tried forcing it to mount in terminal using the command xsanctl mount VOLNAME, its giving me an error saying
"unable to mount volume, Cannot mount XSAN volume error code: 5"
What is that error message? When I tried typing cvadmin to the main controller, it only gave me this message:
Main Controller:
File System Services (* indicates service is in control of FS)
1>*XSAN[0] located on 10.0.0.101:49930 (pid 317)
Select FSM "XSAN"
When I type the same cvadmin to the backup controller, it gave me this message:
Backup Controller:
File System Service (* indicates service is in control of FS)
1> XSAN[1] located on 10.0.0.102:50384 (pid 331)
No FSSs are active
Select FSM "none"
What is happening? both servers are having a DNS name. Before I created the SAN, from the authenticate window, the server name is just the IP address of the Ethernet 0 (first ethernet port). Now whenever I fire up Xsan Admin, both controllers are now offline and if you authenticate them, the server name info suddenly changed from IP address to a DNS Name (e.g. from 194.170.34.12, changed to hct-mdc.ad.hct.ac.ae) which even if I type my admin username and password cannot authenticate saying "server not found in network"
I really don't know now what to do and they need to fix the issue asap.
I would really appreciate your help guys!
Thanks.
jantoniophi

Hi,
I am accessing this WS via ARD, so public LAN is definitely there. I have not connected the "Xsan" network (but it should be no problems communicating the Xsan traffic over this single LAN connection).
With the firewall, the situation is more strange. When I try to open the Firewall settings on Sharing, there is a dialog "Other firewall software is running on this computer." I googled this and it seems that this was a common problem on 10.3. They suggest to delete com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist file but it is not there on 10.4.
"sudo ipfw list" shows this:
00001 allow udp from any 626 to any dst-port 626
65535 allow ip from any to any
Any ideas on how to make Firewall behave as expected? I will try to reinstall if I don't receive a reply.
Thanks.

Duplicating wlans on backup controller

We have inherited a 5508 controller running 7.0 code and WCS running 7.0 code. This site did not have a backup controller. So we have installed a wism as a backup controller. The problem is no one can seem to remember the pre shared keys for the wlans on the primary controller. Can I use WCS to duplicate the wlans to the secondary controller and have the psk copied?
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Eric,
Just as Scott mentioned you can get the PSK from the PCs the users connect from. Many supplicants allow you to view the shared string in plain text.
If you pushed the psk WLAN template to the original WLC from the WCS and the WCS still has the same template with the same PSK then it is possible to publish the same template to the backup WLC. Otherwise you can not.
HTH
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How to configure HA between local controller and remote controller in DC

Good day,
If I have two Cisco 5508 Controllers, running Software version 7.4, how would my failover happen when the AP's run in local mode, and the local controller fail, and you configured your remote controller as your secondary controller. Question is, will the APs automatically convert to FlexConnect mode when they failover to the remote controller in the DC? I know you cannot configure HA as the controllers have to be connected with ethernet copper cable on the redundancy port, giving you a distance limitation of 100m.
Thank you in advance
Adrian

Hello ,
As per your query i can suggest you the following solution-
In wireless network deployments that run controller versions earlier than 5.0, when a controller goes down, it takes a long time for all the APs and the associated clients to move to a backup controller and for wireless service to resume.
The features discussed in the document are implemented on the controller CLI in WLC software release 5.0 in order to decrease the time that it takes for access points and their associated clients to move to a backup controller and for wireless service to resume after a controller goes down:
In order to reduce the controller failure detection time, you can configure the heartbeat interval between the controller and access point with a smaller timeout value.
In addition to the option to configure primary, secondary, and tertiary controllers for a specific access point, you can now also configure primary and secondary backup controllers for a specific controller. If the local controller of the access point fails, it chooses an available controller from the backup controller list in this order:
•o primary
•o secondary
•o tertiary
•o primary backup
•o secondary backup
The access point maintains a list of backup controllers and periodically sends primary discovery requests to each entry on the list. You can now configure a primary discovery request timer in order to specify the amount of time that a controller has to respond to the discovery request of the access point before the access point assumes that the controller cannot be joined and waits for a discovery response from the next controller in the list.
Hope this will help you.

X3650 and Backup Exec

Dear all!
We have a big problem with NetWare 6.5 SP7 and Backup Exec 9.2.
Since the migration to a new hardware our backup is not running.
Hardware Details:
- Server: IBM x3650 7979
- Tape: Quantum LTO-3 HH, SAS-connected
Problem description:
The tape drive is recognized correctly under NetWare and Bachup Exec. Problem comes, when even trying to label a tape: ""Job completed: With ERROR - A drive failure was detected. (24623)". We also tried different tapes, also a different tape drive (which is working without problems while being attached to another (Win 2003) server).
Additional information:
- The nwtape.cdm we renamed, to prevent it from being started.
- CDMs and HAMs are from SP7.
- For Backup Exec, we are using the lastest driver package.
What is strange: we still have an "unbound object" when entering "list devices". But I do not have a clue, which driver is missing. Our startup.ncf:
LOAD ACPIDRV.PSM
######## End PSM Drivers ########
LOAD IDECD.CDM
LOAD SCSIHD.CDM
######## End CDM Drivers ########
LOAD IDEATA.HAM SLOT=10025
LOAD AACRAID.HAM SLOT=10030
######## End HAM Drivers ########
env NDSD_TRY_NMASLOGIN_FIRST=true
LOAD KEYB.NLM Germany
LOAD CHARSET.NLM CP850
Is there something missig in our startup.ncf (which may cause the backup problem)?
Any ideas, what we can do to make the backup run?
Thanks in advance,
chobbes

chobbes wrote:
>Is there something missig in our startup.ncf (which may cause the
>backup problem)?
I see no SAS driver loaded in your startup.ncf. Does that mean you have
your tape drive connected to your raid controller? If yes, that is a
configuration which is generally not recommended.
Marcel Cox
http://support.novell.com/forums
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Thanks for the answer! I did all of the steps. Under Facebook, the only
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finally went to backup assistant and manually deleted them.
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Diferrence Between RRM and Clean Air

Hello Everyone.
I want to say thank you for read my post.
Well I'm having some problems here, because I don't get the correct Idea for RRM & Clear Air. For me they do the same.
Can anyone explain me the differente?
Thank you.

Hi Ordonez,
CleanAir:
With Cisco CleanAir technology, if an interference source
is strong enough to completely jam a Wi-Fi channel, the
system will change channels within seconds to avoid the
interference, resuming client activity on another channel
outside of the affected area. The system remembers
intermittent interference from persistent sources such
as a microwave ovens, wireless bridges, or wireless
video cameras. Through tight integration with Cisco radio
resource management technology, the CleanAir solution
indicates the channels where these devices operate so
that system administrators can optimize performance and
minimize future disruption.
Others claim to have integrated spectrum intelligence
but can’t effectively distinguish between Wi-Fi and non-
Wi-Fi interference. Spectrum intelligence products from
other manufacturers typically falsely interpret any network
noise as interference and randomly switch channels,
which jeopardizes network stability and may reduce
overall network performance.
Source: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/enterprise-networks/cleanair-technology/aag_c22-594304.pdf
RRM:
The RF Group Name is an ASCII string configured per wireless LAN controller (WLC). The grouping algorithm elects the RF Group leader that, in turn, calculates the Transmit Power Control (TPC) and Dynamic Channel Assignment (DCA) for the entire RF Group. The exception is Coverage Hole algorithm (CHA), which is run per WLC. Because RF Grouping is dynamic, and the algorithm runs at 600-second intervals by default, there might be an instance where new neighbors are heard (or existing neighbors are no longer heard). This causes a change in the RF Group that could result in the election of a new Leader (for one or multiple logical RF Groups). At this instance, the Tx Power Threshold of the new group leader is used in the TPC algorithm. If the value of this threshold is inconsistent across multiple controllers that share the same RF Group Name, this can result in discrepancies in resultant Tx power levels when the TPC is run
Source: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/wireless-mobility/wireless-lan-wlan/71113-rrm-new.html
RRM and CleanAir perform approximatley the same.
Only difference being in CleanAir they have implemented spectrum level intelligence which can differentiate between different wireless interfering devices for ex: microwave oven , cordless phone. With this if youre using NCS you can easily plot and mitigate the source of interfernce with exact device type.

How do you stop Mountain Lion from making endless copies and backups of everything?!

I already have a similar topic on this when I needed to figure out how to stop Mountain Lion from making endless copies of my text edit files and I was going to try the disabling of it that someone in that thread suggested, but I can't find where the Versions backups are being stored.
Anyway, tonight I cam across a new problem, when I went into "about this Mac" and looked at my Storage, I had almost 1gb of data in the "backups" section. I just happened to have Finder open when I went into the Time Machine in the status bar and when it entered Time Machine, I had dozens of copies of my desktop. Thing is, I don't have my Time Machine hard drive connected and I don't have a Time Capsule router/hard drive. And don't give me this garbage about how "It's not real backups, it's just a snapshot" or whatever, because the ONLY things that I have stored on my computer that I have altered since I got mountain lion is two Text Edit files and the Finder Desktop (and yes, I have checked almost all the programs I use, and of the things that Time Machine will open in, those are the only things that have backups listed that I can access) and almost 1gb is being taken up completely needlessly with the computer backing up things onto itself. Obviously these are more than just snapshots and are obviously the real files because after throwing EVERYTHING on my desktop into a file, that file is only 3.8mb in size, so that almost 1GB in backups is coming from SOMEWHERE.
The solution I aluded to in my first sentence also depends on going into the Terminal to make each individual app stop auto saving Versions, however, since my desktop is being backed up, there's no program to stop Mountain Lion from doing that.
Can anyone help me figure out how to make it stop backing up? Seriously, almost 1 gb is being totally wasted on a series of desktop items that are 3.8mb in size, one Text Edit file that is 250kb in size, and another text edit file that is 41kb in size. What person in Apple would possibly have thought this endless backing up of files onto the main hard drive would have been a good idea? So in a year if I did nothing but go on the internet, save one picture to one file on my desktop and did nothing else with my computer, would I have 200 gb of desktop backups that the computer saved onto itself? Are you kidding me? OR failing that, can anyone tell me how to find this damned backup file and delete it? I'm not an idiot, I know how to plug in a hard drive or flash drive and backup my information, I don't need my computer to be making hundreds of copies of every single file on my computer that I change slightly onto itself that not only needlessly eats up it's own space, but if the hard drive died, all those "backups" would be gone too because it wrote the backups to itself.
I am so frustrated by this totally ridiculous and wasteful "feature" they put in, it does nothing but waste hard drive space with it's hundreds of copies of everything you alter slightly. And I am absolutely not starting any video editing projects until I figure out how to turn this off. If around 4mb of total text and desktop backups add up to almost 1gb in a few weeks, what the heck is a video editing project going to end up in with size? Am I the only one completely flustered by this ridiculousness? Is there any point in writing into Apple to complain or are they just going to say "No, we're brilliant, we think this is an amazing feature so you just have to deal iwth it and when your hardd drive fills up, too bad, jerk!"?? Help! Thanks!

Well as I pointed out in my post, "Sadly, my Text Edit documents are still all there, every single time I opened them and made a small change, there is another copy stretching all the way back to the day I installed Mountain Lion." so if you can explain to me how July 26 - Aug 16 is a week, I will concede that it is a good idea. Short of that, no I have been capable of making my own backups since I was 16 years old (16 years ago) I don't need my computer to endlessly do it for me in a way I am completely unable to shut off. That's what I have external hard drives, flash drives, a DVD burner, Drop Box, E-mail (as in emailing copies to myself) and icloud for. If I am doing something and I don't have access to a single one of those options, I don't know why I brought my computer with me in the first place. And I don't see how you can say it's an illusory gain in disk space, hundreds of copies of text documents, garageband files, Final Cut files, Motion Files and basically any program that makes files onto my comptuer that I can myself make incremental changes to, those all need to be stored somehow. Again, if you can explain to me how July 26 - Aug 16 is a week, I will agree with you that that is a good thing because IF it only saved for a week, it wouldn't be an issue. Sadly, no matter how many links you post, I still have text edit backups stretching from today back to July 26. They're not going away and I have no reason to beleive any other file I edit is going to go away either since they haven't been. They're all there eating up HD space and this imaginary "week" limit is simply not coming into effect. I hate it and there needs to be a simple way to simply shut it off. I didn't spend hundreds of dollars on external drives just for my main hard drive to be filled up with hundreds un useless, undeletable backups of stuff I already have backed up.

Problem with NEO2 and sata controller card

1.Product Type: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (MS-7025)
and the controller card is a InnoVision DM-8301 and the hard drive is a Seagate ST3320620AS
2.BIOS version: The newest one, 1C0 or something.
3.External VGA Type: Geforce 6800 GT
4.CPU Type: AMD 64 3500+
5.Memory Type: G Skill ZX 2048mb.
6.Power Supply Type:
7.Operating System: Xp Pro
8.Problem Description:
Hello. I have a strange problem with my controllercard. I wrote this text to InnoVision suport and they send me files and bios updates for a whole week and it was still the same problem. And then i tried the card in an older computer and everything worked fine.
I wrote
"Hello. I got some problems with my new controller card. I can find my new harddrive ,that's conected to the controller card, when iam inside windows and it's seems to be no problem. I can look on every seting on it and everywhere i look i can read "No problem". I Also did some test with the seatools programe and everything was fine. But when i schould copy files to it the coumputer start lagging after a few seconds and i cant do anything. After a while i can move the mouse around but the it laggs again. My computer is overclocked at the time but i have tried to use the harddrive when it's not clocked also. Also when im goin in to teh controlpanel and starts the setings for Sillicon Images sata controll and have music on my computer, the music laggs for a very very short moment. Something must be wrong and i can not find it."
It's still the same problem in my computer. The older computer had a MSI moderboard with a VIA chip and i have a nForce 3. InnoVison said i should talk to you about this problem. I have 3 harddrives but i use this controllercard because i want to have my computer overclocked and then i can't use 2 of the sata ports as i think you know.
I would be very thankful if you could help me with this problem.
//Martin

I've used a noname SATA pci card (non raid) with SIL3112 on my neo2 without problems with 1C bios.
Think you may try with a disk lower than 48bitLBA need (137GB barrier), eg a 120GB disk
Quote:
have the InnoVision EIO DM-8301 and had alot of problems using it with WD 160MB SATA drive.
I am using Intel 865 based MB with 2 original SATA channels. The original SATA channels are bootable.
I could not used the EIO card with 160G HDD. The whole setup is working only after I connected oine of my 120G Segate SATA HDD to the EIO Sata card.
I think this card do not properly support HDD above 120G.
Please respond to: [email protected]
http://www.devhardware.com/forums/storage-devices-80/sata-as-boot-20080-2.html
Btw: you have xp sp2 ?
48bitLBA is not enabled in the first version.
http://www.48bitlba.com/winxp.htm
Edit:
Here's another with complete different setup and same problems
http://forum.tweakxp.com/forum/Topic212148-4-1.aspx
I doubt it has anything to do with your motherboard and/or bios.
Btw: I looked at innovision and their drivers in download area are very old.
Get the latest SIL3112 drivers for XP here:
http://www.siliconimage.com/support/supportsearchresults.aspx?pid=63&cid=3&ctid=2&osid=4&
And remember 3112 is sata150 only , so it's not sure it will work with your drive at all .
Anyway it should be set to fixed sata1.5G with jumper - not certain the controller can autonegotiate
without trouble. You cannot have command queing enabled either , disk support only NCQ and controller TCQ
so having command queing set ON will cause major conflicts in data transfers.

I'm using Firefox with Ubuntu 11.04 and the Import and Backup-button cannot be found in the Library-window as instructed, how can I enable this particular feature on Ubuntu 11.04?

The import and backup-button is, however, where it's supposed to be on Ubuntu 10.10.

Ubuntu may have moved those three button as well to that control bar.

Inventory report for the selection of requisitioner and MRP controller

Hello Experts,
Can someone please help me with a standard Inventory report in which we can give input thr requistioner and MRP controller
regards,
YK

Hi,
You will get the requisition no. from EKKO (provided PO has been created otherwise you won't get any record). Find out PO & item no. for the requisition item. Then you can check EKBE table whether GR has been posted or not. If GR has not been posted then there won't be entry in EKBE for that PO & item.
Regards,
Rakesh

Can't find the storage and backup link to start an icloud backup

Why is it that when you create an icloud account the Storage and Backup link isn't always there. I need to create an icloud account and then create an icloud backup right away so that I can setup multiple ipads using the icloud backup. How do I force an icloud backup?
Thanks

You can check your Junk/Spam folders, sometimes the e-mail gets sent there. Also, double check that the primary e-mail address in your Apple ID account is hers. If none of this works, I suggest to wait it out, sometimes it can take up to 24 hours!

What is the best way to create additional storage AND backup a laptop, as well as the storage?

Beyond being seriously annoyed at an Apple Employee recommended we go the NAS route at an Apple Store no less—only to find it doesn't work for storage OR Time Machine backups of iPhoto (after spending weeks organizing/transferring date, outside of a good deal of coin)—we are now perplexed as how to set up/store based on our needs.
Goals
Create additional storage (iPhoto, iTunes, documents) for the family laptop
Accessible by anyone/device on the home network (iPad, mini iPad, iPhones, etc..)
Would prefer the ability to access this offsite as well
Backup of the laptop
Backup of the storage HD
Ensure we do not lose iPhoto libraries data/files
Here is what I am thinking—need to know if it will work.
Purchase two HDs
Plug them into my base station
Allocate one HD @2T for storage (additional iPhoto libraries, home movies, iTunes libraries, etc...)
Partition the second HD @3T to handle two Time Machine backups
(a) Time Machine of the laptop (up to 1T of backups)
(b) Time Machine of the first HD (up to 2T of backups) - Is this possible?
What I need to know is
Is it possible to partition a HD to Time Machine two backups from different sources—one being a HD?
If this is not a good solution—what is? I am pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to deal with a lot of data related to iPhoto due to the formatting limitations there.

While most do not advocate mixing Time Machine backups with other files, I have 3 Time Capsules with files and backups on the same partition and have never had a problem despite doing it for many years. All 3 Time Capsule are set up as NAS devices.
One Time Capsule holds the Snow Leopard partition backup of two computers. The other two each have a backup of the Mountain Lion partition of two computers. Time Machine is set up to alternate between the devices, which it can now do. On these 2 Time Capsules is a copy of the iTunes Library and a copy of the iPhotos Library, which provides a backup for the two. Every so often I manually copy the new files from the primary iTunes/iPhotos library to the backup on the other Time Capsule.
If the computer is on, I can access the computer from my iPad and then access the hard drives and the files.
Hopefully, I have been able to make this clear.

How can I synch my ipod to a new computer without losing all my content, purchased and my old copied albums? My PC and backup died in the same week and now I am told I could lose all my content if I synch?

how can I synch my ipod to a new computer without losing all my content, purchased and my old copied albums?
My PC and backup died in the same week and now I am told I could lose all my content if I synch?
I have new purchases on my new laptop but too paranoid to synch the ipod incase I lose the thousands of tunes I copied over from my old collections.

See these 2 Links...
Syncing to a New Computer...
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141
Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991

RRM and backup controller

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