Re: Backup system for my Studio, what is the best solution?

2021-01-14 Thread Steve Matzura
RAID is just a file storage mode that uses extra drives to keep special information on how to reclaim data should one of the other disks in the set go bad. To form a RAID set requires at least one more disk than you are using for storage. For instance, if you want to store twenty-four

Re: Strange new behavior when using Siri to play music from my homepod

2021-01-14 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
The other thing that is strange is that it says playing on Airmusic. I've never seen that till recently. Donna > On Jan 14, 2021, at 2:48 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote: > > Hi Donna, > > I had noticed the media controls showing up on my iPhone, and I have also > noticed a fast drain on my iPhone

Re: Strange new behavior when using Siri to play music from my homepod

2021-01-14 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Jeff, The thing that made me notice it was my watch. It positively kills the battery life on my watch. Not only does it drain the battery, but it makes it so the battery doesn't charge properly either. And the only way to stop the rapid battery drain is to completely power my phone off and

Re: Strange new behavior when using Siri to play music from my homepod

2021-01-14 Thread Jeff Berwick
Hi Donna, I had noticed the media controls showing up on my iPhone, and I have also noticed a fast drain on my iPhone battery in recent days. I didn’t, unlike you, connect the two. Now that you made me aware, I’m also not happy with this adjustment/bug or whatever it is. Jeff > On Jan

That annoying "Message Body Text field is editing..."

2021-01-14 Thread Jason Judy
Greetings everybody, I have this pesky problem that has been going on since my iPhone was updated to iOS 14. So far this only affects in the editing mode in Mail and Safari. Basically, when I stop typing in the editing mode to review a message I composed for a minute, but this "Message body

estimated time on battery

2021-01-14 Thread Dennis Westphal
Hi, I am wondering how to get Voiceover to announce how much time is left using my macbook on battery power. I didn’t find a setting where I could at that value. However articles suggest that in big sur that should be integrated. I only get he battery percentage. Thanks and stay safe

Re: Backup system for my Studio, what is the best solution?

2021-01-14 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
NAS is "network attached storage" and is essentially a private cloud storage in your home. There are several vendors that make nas. Raid is an automatic backup system built into most large storage systems that makes copies of each file on different drives in a cluster of drives if any one of

Strange new behavior when using Siri to play music from my homepod

2021-01-14 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi all, For about the past week, when I use Siri to play music from my Homepod—also playing to some Sonos speakers—the Airplay control dialog displays on my other i-devices—phone, iPad, etc. This never used to happen, and I don’t like it. It used to be that unless I manually airplayed

Re: Backup system for my Studio, what is the best solution?

2021-01-14 Thread Ramy Moustafa Saber
You Mean that my data are saved to a server or something like that? and the raid system will get them back? or what? > On Jan 14, 2021, at 3:04 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: > > I don't know what G-RAID is, but you'll definitely be using RAID of some > form. That's your data protection system

Re: Backup system for my Studio, what is the best solution?

2021-01-14 Thread Steve Matzura
I don't know what G-RAID is, but you'll definitely be using RAID of some form. That's your data protection system right there. If a disk goes bad, you don't lose anything; you just swap out the bad disk for a new one and tell the network-attached storage device how to deal with the new volume.

Re: Backup system for my Studio, what is the best solution?

2021-01-14 Thread Steve Matzura
Wireless? No way. It attaches to your local network via a Category 5 cable. It's a box with any number of bays for disk drives. I have one from Synology that holds up to eight drives. My current storage capacity is about 40, yes, that's for-zero, terabytes. On 1/14/2021 7:33 AM, Ramy

Re: Backup system for my Studio, what is the best solution?

2021-01-14 Thread Ramy Moustafa Saber
Ok, thanks so much but must i use G-raid or i can use any hard disks? > On Jan 14, 2021, at 1:14 AM, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > > On 1/13/21 4:46 PM, Ramy Moustafa Saber wrote: >> I have more than 10 TB ddivided into several Hard disks, and i need to take >> backup from

Re: Backup system for my Studio, what is the best solution?

2021-01-14 Thread Ramy Moustafa Saber
Ok, thanks so much but what is it? is it a wireless rack or what? > On Jan 14, 2021, at 4:04 AM, Steve Matzura wrote: > > Go for a NAS. Wastes no USB ports, is faster than USB, accessible by anything > on your local area network, and properly configured, Time Machine won't know > the