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This is why you always want the onsite & offsite backup, because offsite cloud backups will always be fairly slow to fully restore. I use a local NAS to achiev

This is why you always want the onsite & offsite backup, because offsite cloud backups will always be fairly slow to fully restore. I use a local NAS to achieve automatic onsite backups myself. It's part of the 3-2-1 backup rule.

godzillabrennus 9y ago
I had a Mac Pro Mid-2010 workstation with a RAID 5 Array configured to have a hot spare for redundancy. Then I had a locally attached hard drive for time machine backups + BackBlaze + a hosted repo for the work I do + I use a third party encrypted cloud file sharing service for the most important documents. The problem started when I decided to upgrade to High Sierra. The upgrade was catastrophic for this configuration of Mac Pro. I have been on the horn with an Apple Senior Advisor within Apple Enterprise Support who has escalated my specific issues to Apple Engineering. I decided to roll back but in the process of restoring the machine from the time machine backup the locally attached drive failed. Apple has yet to tell me if they will even support the Apple RAID controller even though this version of the Mac Pro is listed as compatible. In the meantime I need to get back up and running. This is why I pay for a cloud backup in addition to having a local backup. Fortunately, I also have a MacBook Pro laptop that I keep a duplicate copy of some of the data on. My productivity will not take a hit. It's just that most people are not me and it seems like it should not take more than four days to create a restore so that I can download my data.
- e40 9y ago
  For the life of me, I can't figure out why people upgrade to new operating systems so quickly. I never upgrade my macOS until x.x.4, but I prefer x.x.5. I'm on 10.11.6 because 1) it works perfectly, and 2) Karabiner doesn't work on 10.12.
  - godzillabrennus 9y ago
    I routinely help others with operating system upgrades in my day to day so out of necessity I upgrade as soon as a general release becomes available. It's also why I have multiple layers of backups for my data.
    - e40 9y ago
      That's what VMs are for! VMware Fusion on macOS is a really good product and I heartily recommend people use it.
  - spondyl 9y ago
    Karabiner was updated a couple of months back in the form of Karabiner Elements, a rewrite "due to kernel architecture changes in macOS Sierra". https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements
  - epmaybe 9y ago
    What if you're buying a new device that's already been updated to the latest version? It can be hard to downgrade, especially with Apple devices.
    - godzillabrennus 9y ago
      Modern Apple devices I’ve used cannot be downgraded to an older operating system than what they shipped with.
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- cm2187 9y ago
  I do twice a day, local NAS backup and it saved my life recently. A bug in a script I wrote in .net, was supposed to iterate through a list of network directories to delete (all starting with \\SERVERNAME\) and ended up iterating through the characters of the first item in that list ("\"). That's how I learned that in Windows, "\" means the root of the current drive, and that deleting all files from a drive on an SSD only takes seconds...
- jlgaddis 9y ago
  It sucks that you have to deal with this (I've been there) but I appreciate the added detail. Along with a few other stories I've heard, this has me leery of upgrading to High Sierra in the near future (although my MBP doesn't really have anything of importance on it). Good luck, hopefully you can get everything back in order before the weekend is over.

godzillabrennus 9y ago

I had a Mac Pro Mid-2010 workstation with a RAID 5 Array configured to have a hot spare for redundancy. Then I had a locally attached hard drive for time machine backups + BackBlaze + a hosted repo for the work I do + I use a third party encrypted cloud file sharing service for the most important documents. The problem started when I decided to upgrade to High Sierra. The upgrade was catastrophic for this configuration of Mac Pro. I have been on the horn with an Apple Senior Advisor within Apple Enterprise Support who has escalated my specific issues to Apple Engineering. I decided to roll back but in the process of restoring the machine from the time machine backup the locally attached drive failed. Apple has yet to tell me if they will even support the Apple RAID controller even though this version of the Mac Pro is listed as compatible. In the meantime I need to get back up and running. This is why I pay for a cloud backup in addition to having a local backup. Fortunately, I also have a MacBook Pro laptop that I keep a duplicate copy of some of the data on. My productivity will not take a hit. It's just that most people are not me and it seems like it should not take more than four days to create a restore so that I can download my data.

e40 9y ago
For the life of me, I can't figure out why people upgrade to new operating systems so quickly. I never upgrade my macOS until x.x.4, but I prefer x.x.5. I'm on 10.11.6 because 1) it works perfectly, and 2) Karabiner doesn't work on 10.12.
- godzillabrennus 9y ago
  I routinely help others with operating system upgrades in my day to day so out of necessity I upgrade as soon as a general release becomes available. It's also why I have multiple layers of backups for my data.
  - e40 9y ago
    That's what VMs are for! VMware Fusion on macOS is a really good product and I heartily recommend people use it.
- spondyl 9y ago
  Karabiner was updated a couple of months back in the form of Karabiner Elements, a rewrite "due to kernel architecture changes in macOS Sierra". https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements
- epmaybe 9y ago
  What if you're buying a new device that's already been updated to the latest version? It can be hard to downgrade, especially with Apple devices.
  - godzillabrennus 9y ago
    Modern Apple devices I’ve used cannot be downgraded to an older operating system than what they shipped with.
- deleted 9y ago
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cm2187 9y ago
I do twice a day, local NAS backup and it saved my life recently. A bug in a script I wrote in .net, was supposed to iterate through a list of network directories to delete (all starting with \\SERVERNAME\) and ended up iterating through the characters of the first item in that list ("\"). That's how I learned that in Windows, "\" means the root of the current drive, and that deleting all files from a drive on an SSD only takes seconds...
jlgaddis 9y ago
It sucks that you have to deal with this (I've been there) but I appreciate the added detail. Along with a few other stories I've heard, this has me leery of upgrading to High Sierra in the near future (although my MBP doesn't really have anything of importance on it). Good luck, hopefully you can get everything back in order before the weekend is over.