Backup Solutions, Volume 2
Read the latest installment, outlining some of the best software choices, techniques and practices for backing up your Mac OS X Server.
Category: Files and Storage
Putting the Fun into Xsan Fundamentals
Getting all the Xsan pieces straight in your head When Xsan came out, it was the first time that the average Apple System Administrator had seen a Storage Area Network (SAN), and as a result, there's a lot of questions about how to best deal the very fundamentals of an Xsan setup.
Grokking Darwin ACLs
I have to admit, when I first heard that Apple was adding ACLs to the next version of OS X, I got a pretty nasty lump in my throat and ordered another pint of ale. I was first introduced to ACLs in DFS on AIX and I still have nightmares and flashbacks of files which can't be deleted by root and will forever remain on the disk until the next newfs.
Tiger ACL’s and everyone permissions
Q: Ok there has to be a way to do this... I just upgraded to tiger and I have some sharepoints that many users access. When a user creates a file or folder in the share point it gets the standard 755 umask. I used to be able to get around this by changing the AFP protocol to inherit permissions instead of POSIX behavior.
Speed up SMB connections for Windows users
Help your Windows users love your Xserve as much as your Mac users do!
Xsan Deployment Advice
Xsan has been out for a few months now so it seems like a good time to go over some Storage Area Network (SAN) stuff and then go through a typical Xsan setup.
Using Microsoft’s Services For UNIX to serve NFS home directories
Get Windows to play nice with your OS X clients using NFS AD integration works reasonably well for Mac OS X clients, but what if you're running, say, an XServe G5, and you need to provide access to Windows-based home directories for multiple command-line users (via ssh, telnet, etc.
Resetting PCI RAID
If you are having trouble with 'megaraid -destroyconfig' run 'megaraid -showdevices' first to see drive status - stop rebuild processes with 'megaraid -rebuild pd -stop' (This only applies to situations where the RAID has failed so badly that rebuilding (which can take 8 or mor hours) is not an option.
rsync Backups on OS X
Clones across the network With a little bit of work you can have rsync cloning a primary server to a backup server.
Apple Enterprise Backup Solutions
Overview of OS X backup options. The most frequent question that I am asked is how someone can protect all of the data that they store on their Xserves and Xserve RAIDs. It's a good question, too! Most of us may have other platforms on our networks as well, so how are all of these servers and clients going to play together?