At 11:50 AM -0500 11/7/2011, JohnV wrote:
Storango 400
10.4.11 (PPC g5) and Snow on a dual intel iMac
...For future reference, please ALWAYS include some config details.
That way we don't have to go thru the pain of asking etc.
At 10:39 AM -0500 11/7/2011, JohnV wrote:
A while back I bought a 4-drive NAS for the mac network here and
found out that between
a- the file naming issues made trying to back things up a mess
and
b- MAC OS doesn;t play nice with NAS access in general
I have a bunch of partial backup material on the NAS that needs to
be transferred onto new HD's for organization and, so far, when I
try that, the transfer stalls a few minutes into things and I have
to reboot to get control back.
Is there an answer to this?
Yes. Play with apple and apples, not apples and oranges.
Your item (a) is the key. You've used some (undisclosed, perhaps
Finder?) app to copy files from your Mac's HFS+ file system to a cr*p
MS file system - either NTFS or FAT (per the Storango's doc). That's
just not good. While the individual file's data forks on that NAS
may be intact, the file system you've created is essentially
corrupted - broken filenames, missing metadata etc.
This is further complicated because that NAS box doesn't support
Apple's native file sharing protocol, AFP. It only supports raw ip
(http and ftp) and MS things, like SMB. ... and you haven't
disclosed which method you're using.
At 9:41 AM -0700 11/7/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote:
The mac OS does play just fine with NAS storage, unless the NAS
itself is foo.
What I;ve been reading on line (in likely wrong places?) shows
mostly folks that can't make this sort of thing work really well at
all. Likwise my local repair shop says only the Drobo is a viable
answer.
Any NAS that supports AFP and HFS+ will work perfectly on a Mac.
Drobo simply happens to be one of the better product lines on the
market.
And if you're stuck with some alien file system and that MS
networking protocol, you can still sometimes create a giant disk
image file (.dmg) and mount that on your Mac.
If you'll provide further details as to what apps are involved and
what types of files you're trying to recover, we might be able to
make better suggestions.
- Dan.
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