Alsoft diskwarrior review mac os x#
So what about the internal boot drive that's running Mac OS X Server? Yep, I back that up too! That one is being backed up to another external 1TB drive via Time Machine. I'll just keep getting bigger backup drives as needed.
As my storage needs grow, I figure that drives will continue to grow as well.
So I was backing up to a 1.5TB external firewire drive each night using SuperDuper! In theory it will take me quite a while to fill up 4TB's of space.
However, I had only used around 1TB of space so far. This could have been a major catastrophe if I had relied on Drobo alone! Luckily I backup my Drobo automatically every nigh t to another external drive for JUST SUCH AN EMERGENCY! Granted my backup drive isn't as large as the Drobo itself. I ran Disk Warrior again and it reported one more problem and fixed it, but still most of my data (to the tune of about one terabyte) was missing in action! Upon closer examination, I noticed that many of my folders were now EMPTY! That's right, stuff was GONE! Here's the thing, I know the files were all technically still there, but the directory just didn't know about them anymore. However, there was still only one blue LED on. After the process was done, I verified some of the folders and everything looked good. Mid way through the process the drive appeared on the desktop and I was breathing a little easier. However, Disk Warrior is really good at correcting this stuff, so I let it do it's magic. So I ran Disk Warrior (not knowing what else to do) and sure enough Disk Warrior reported all kinds of problems. However, this was the first problem I ever encountered with the Drobo. As a matter of fact Alsoft's Disk Warrior has saved my bacon on many occasions. My main volume's directory structure had become corrupt! Now this is not the first time that this has happened to me on my computers. What had happened was something I hadn't thought about. Not only was the drive not mounting on the desktop, but now there was only one light on. Normally for me there are 3 of those lights on. What was even worse was that there are 10 blue LED lights on the front of the Drobo unit to show you visually how much capacity has been used up. After another reboot, the Drobo no longer appeared on the desktop. The next thing that happened was kind of heart stopping. Why? Because technically there wasn't a problem with the hardware. So I did the normal troubleshooting stuff including rebooting and that's where my evening of fun began. When I checked folder in the OS it was EMPTY! I thought that was odd, and went over to the actual Mac OS X Server machine and all the data was there. The only problem was that I was getting write errors that looked like something had gone haywire with the permissions of the folder I was trying to write to. I snapped some shots of my setup with my digital camera and began the import process on one of my computers over my network to my server.
Alsoft diskwarrior review tv#
I had originally sat down to continue to write about more stuff on streaming TV content and my transition for an Apple TV to a Mac mini in one of my rooms. This was not the blog post I intended on writing As a matter of fact it goes out of its way to monitor the health and well being of the drives and report any potential problems. You might think that with a Drobo, there's no need right? After all, isn't the point of a RAID system like this to protect your data against drive failures? The answer is yes! Drobo is engineered to protect your data in the event of a drive going bad. I've lost enough important data in my life to be very backup conscious! So when I got my Drobo (what's a Drobo and how does it work? read my earlier review.) last year, I was still very concerned about regular backups.
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