At 1:55 PM -0600 12/27/2008, Kris Tilford wrote: > >I had my brother returned his Time Capsulte to Apple and the "genius" >pressed the reset button and told him it was "likely fixed" and to >"try again". This was a wasted drive of 140 miles
sigh. We had the same experience with the first TC. The client took it to an Apple Store during lunch and all the guy did was push the button. Got back into the office and found it was a brick. I hope the 140 miles at least had some nice scenery! ...Not to bash the Genius concept, which I'm sure is good for some segment of the user population, but I've yet to get a solution from any Apple Genius that wasn't already available with a few mins of searching with Google or in Apple's TIL. I guess that's appropriate. If they had access to "double-secret" information to fix things, we'd throw a fit. >Time Capsule is a Black Hole. TM + <anything> = a Black Hole. I think TC is a nice NAS solution with potential, albeit a pricey one. IOW, while I don't recommend Time Machine for anything except playing around, I have (sigh. I'm not sure why!) hopes for Time Capsule. I'm still "in the market" for a good cost-reasonable "shared" storage solution. At this point, we're mostly using things like Power Macs or Mac Minis armed with strings of external Firewire or eSATA drives. Our luck with off-the-shelf NAS boxes hasn't been very good... HD mechanism problems, whole boxes that emulate bricks suddenly, etc. For backups... I've created a two-layered solution. Step 1: The mac pushes the data with CCC to the backup volume (either local or on a server-Mac). Step 2: Critical folders are pushed to DVD. Not elegant, but it works, if the client remembers to put DVD blanks into the drives and/or plug in the externals. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
