On Dec 8, 10:36 am, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But keep in mind, if this is a drive to be used as BACKUP then it > should NOT be plugged into your Mac when not in use! The POINT of a > backup to be *disconnected* from the source when the catastrophe > happens!
Also, I would want to pull its power plug off the UPS like I could do with a LaCie Tsunami SCSI drive. But I think I have read about a user problem with shutting the new LaCie down completely. There is no power swtich. There is a weird procedure that is not as simple as dismounting the drive from the Desktop and then pulling the plug? True/False? Just leave the power on with the data cable disconnected? > > Note also that you should not connect the drive to multiple Macs > simultaneously, just because it has multiple interfaces. HFS+ is not > a distributed file system; you will corrupt things. > I will cable directly to each Mac for the initial CCC cloning. After that, I will use only the one FW800 cable to one iMac and do the CCC update from each Mac via the ethernet LAN. To recover one of the two other Macs, I would recable directly to it, using FW400 to the MacBook. Thinking about using a fourth GUID partition for Time Machine. This could be accessible by all three Intel Macs via the ethernet LAN. And as far as I can see, the G4 iBook can also access that partition transparently. True? It may be best to just get a Time Capsule in spite of its current problems, and then I'd have two backup mechanisms. Thank you, Al Poulin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
