Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Carbon Copy Cloner. Two bootable backups, one kept offsite, rotated each week. That’s as well as Time Machine.

I was thinking of using superduper, and having a bootable backup alongside the time machine back up.
Then turning one of my old hdd's into a bootable backup, which sits somewhere gathering dust.
Then probably buy another external to back up all the media/music/big files (4tb maybe)

Yeah that works - SuperDuper is great a well, I used it at my previous job to make bootable backups and it was always flawless.

HDDs are dirt cheap, so just get a couple of new 2-4TB usb 3 ones.

Anyone got a qnap nas here?
I need to reformat and set up the drives as a raid 10, but have 2 drives which it says has data on them and 2 drives which have nothing on them, and looking through the options on my control panel, I’m only being allowed to set up a raid 0,1,5 or 6. Raid 10 is greyed out.
Been searching and reading manuals but no luck so far.
Any help amor insight appreciated..

Yeh, me. What version of QTS?

You need to install/initialise all the drives together in order to create raid 10 I think

Latest one I think. I’ll check when jnr’s off to nursery.

Firmware is 4.4.1

Had a drive fail on me, which I've replaced, but kept getting an error message. I'm currently removing that volume and seeing whether I'm able to create a Raid 10 from there.

We have success, now have access to all drives so Raid creation is in progress..

okay, apologies for the Raid questions, I'm only just getting my head round this.

Have created a Raid 10 (storage pool) with a capacity of 7.26TB

It now wants to know if I want to create a static volume, thick volume or thin volume.

Currently thinking that a thick volume would be the best of both worlds, gives me a large enough volume to dump all media onto, as well as supporting (snapshots) in case I want to recover media on it at a later date.

@freddo how have you set up yours?

use thick volume for your storage pool

how are you planning to back up your Raid cluster?

I use the QNAP Hybrid Backup and Sync app with a set of external HDDs via USB 3.0. These are kept in a firesafe. If you don't have all this extra hardware already you can always back up to AWS S3 or some cloud storage solution, it will work out cheaper.

also what drives are you using?

For info I use Western Digital Red which I would strongly recommend. The current set in my NAS have been running for 3+ years. The previous set which I sold when I upgraded my NAS had been running for 6 years continuously.

Where did you sell your old stuff? I've got a pair of 24TB G-Tech Studio EVs I want to shift and got no idea where - Jigsaw won't do a buyback. They're 3 or 4 years old and run perfectly, I just want us to shift to SSD (for my sins) so they're surplus to need.

I’m using wd reds.
Backing up the raid hasn’t entered my thoughts. I’m focusing on getting it up and running and hopefully the raid 10 configuration means I can swap out drives when they fall over, keeping the system up and running.

Will look into cloud based storage or cheaper external drives as an alternative.

eBay but maybe you could post details here, someone might be interested.

I upgraded from a TS-419ProII to a TS-869 Pro. There's a pretty decent market for entry-level used kit as more and more people are moving to NAS solutions for their home theatre stuff.

I’m using wd reds.

Cool.

The thing to remember is that RAID is a solution for availability, you can't treat it like a backup. If it is actually being used as a backup for another drive then don't use Raid 10, it's wasteful.
Yes Raid 10 can hot-swap and Raid 1, 5, 6 and 10 offer drive redundancy but how will you recover your data if the cluster gets corrupted or the physical server goes kaput?

It’s not a backup but a repository for movies, music, photo’s that will be backed up elsewhere or live on my main computer.

So current thinking workflow is that everything (media) lives on main computer, which is backed up to time machine.
Media - movies/music/photos are copied onto the nas and updated as new material is downloaded/created/ripped, so is available to be streamed/viewed, in front room and wherever else I can figure out to send it..

Nas is then backed up maybe to an external hdd or cloud based service whichever is most cost effective..

Nas is just for media, might make a folder for documents/stuff we both need access to, but not sure my missus wants that..

Right now I’m trying to get music and films on it.

Anyone know of an app that will recognise unknown or untitled tracks in your music library, without you having to play them?
So rather than playing each track to Shazam, or another app of that kind, it scans the tracks in your library and names them?

This might help:

https://picard.musicbrainz.org

But my experience is that it is quite hit and miss.

I sold an iPad mini 4 to a forumenger about a month ago. It appears that it is regularly turning off even though it is showing charge. This did not happen when I owned it.

Whenever I sell something on the forum I like to offer to provide a refund if the item is faulty. How can they identify what is causing the shut downs? I'd like to rule out a software glitch before refunding their cash.

Complete reset and re-install?

Is there an app that can check battery health like on macbook? Sorry for noob questions, I really don't know Apple and googling brings up a lot of contradictory and confusing stuff.

I haven't tried it, but seems like https://coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/ could check it for you. I assume you need to run it on a mac though with the iPad connected

Thanks mate.

You can hit the apple icon, about this Mac, system report button, then power from the list.

Not on an iPad? (unless you can?)