Disc icons on RAID disc

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Disc icons on RAID disc

I just mounted two seagate 500Gb discs on my Mac Pro. I used the raid option to make them work as backup but so far I haven't started adding any data

I'd like however to change the icon of the disk from the default to something else. Although I've done this quite a few times with various other external drtives, I think that I can't change the icon of the raid group. Can I change the icon or am I stuck with the default?

Mac Pro 2.66, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Oct 9, 2006 9:14 AM

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Oct 9, 2006 9:29 AM in response to nasos

Case closed, problem solved. Works fine. All I had to do was to press the apple button instead of CTRL (**** pcs)

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Oct 9, 2006 1:24 PM in response to nasos

Wait, case may not be closed...

You say you configured the RAID to work as a backup. There is no RAID configuration that can possibly be used as a backup. So I am hoping you are not relaying on a mirrored RAID set as a backup.

The reason a mirrored RAID is not a backup, is because no data is ever retained when a file is changed or deleted. That is, the process of making a change to a file, or deleting a file is replicated on all drives that make up the RAID set. If you accidently delete your checkbook data, it's gone, you can't get it back from your RAID set. If you need to look at files to see what you were doing two months ago, and you have made changes to those files since then, poof, it is gone, no way to return to that data.

Mirrored RAID is not a backup. It's main purpose is to provide redundancy of hardware to insure that if a drive should fail that you can continue to operate with all data intact, as you make any needed hardware repairs or replacements. Mirrored RAIDS are to hep insure the maximum amount of uptime on your data storage system.

So if your intent was to use a mirrored RAID array for backup, please reconsider. If you were instead using the mirrored array as it was intended, please forgive my slight rant about what mirrored RAIDs are for.

Thanks,

Tom N.

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nasos Author

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Oct 9, 2006 11:38 PM in response to Tom Nelson1

You are correct, mirror raid is NOT backup. Wrong expression. I know all these things that you mentioned and you are 100% correct. My intention wasn't backup but -as you mention- redundancy of hardware. My backup system works manually with external disks, dvd copies etc

BTW, is there a software which can automatically start copying the content of one directory on to a specific location, on a -let's say- daily basis?

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dotnet

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Oct 10, 2006 10:58 PM in response to nasos

You can write a shell script to do the copying and drop it into /etc/periodic/daily. It will then be run as part of they daily housekeeping.

Cheers
Steffen.

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nasos Author

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Oct 11, 2006 1:24 AM in response to dotnet

I wish I knew how to do this. Any ideas?

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dotnet

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Oct 11, 2006 6:01 AM in response to nasos

Sorry, this was the wrong forum for a reply like that (I was reading the Unix forum just prior).

Of course you need to know some basic shell scripting to do this. If you were asking for a GUI solution then sorry, I don't have the answer.

Cheers
Steffen.

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Oct 11, 2006 6:53 AM in response to nasos

Just about all backup utilities, allow you to schedule backups to be performed at specified times. Just off the top of my head, here are a few names.

Silverlining
Deja Vu
Retrospect
SuperDuper
Backup (part of an .mac subscription)

plus there are many, many more.

Tom N.

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