Comments on: How to prepare for the Snow Leopard upgrade http://digidsolutions.com/2009/08/27/how-to-prepare-for-the-snow-leopard-upgrade/ Apple Consultants - WordPress Consultants - Web Presence Specialists Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:17:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Jarrod Skeggs http://digidsolutions.com/2009/08/27/how-to-prepare-for-the-snow-leopard-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Jarrod Skeggs Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:17:20 +0000 http://digidsolutions.com/?p=1345#comment-44 davidw11 - Need some clarification here first... Are your 4 x 1TB drives independent volumes? Are any of the drives set up as a RAID? If they are set up as a RAID, what RAID config. did you use, ie, RAID 0, 1, 5? Give me a little more info. here. If you wish, you can send me a System Profiler via email and I can take a look at this. If you'd like me to do that, let me know in a comment and I'll email you my contact info and you can send it via email. Also, what sort of work is your MacPro being used for? My best guess would be some sort of Video Editing/Capture/Post Production? Presuming that you are using this MacPro as a Production computer, (critical to daily business), I can't stress enough, the need and value in creating a bootable clone using Carbon Copy Cloner before you move forward in any manner. I realize this is tough to do if you have multiple TB of data, but believe me, if you calculate the value of your existing data in terms of the time it has taken to create it, you'll realize very quickly the importance of doing this. Thanks for reading our blog. davidw11 – Need some clarification here first…

Are your 4 x 1TB drives independent volumes? Are any of the drives set up as a RAID? If they are set up as a RAID, what RAID config. did you use, ie, RAID 0, 1, 5? Give me a little more info. here. If you wish, you can send me a System Profiler via email and I can take a look at this. If you’d like me to do that, let me know in a comment and I’ll email you my contact info and you can send it via email.

Also, what sort of work is your MacPro being used for? My best guess would be some sort of Video Editing/Capture/Post Production?

Presuming that you are using this MacPro as a Production computer, (critical to daily business), I can’t stress enough, the need and value in creating a bootable clone using Carbon Copy Cloner before you move forward in any manner. I realize this is tough to do if you have multiple TB of data, but believe me, if you calculate the value of your existing data in terms of the time it has taken to create it, you’ll realize very quickly the importance of doing this.

Thanks for reading our blog.

]]> By: davidw11 http://digidsolutions.com/2009/08/27/how-to-prepare-for-the-snow-leopard-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-43 davidw11 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:15:31 +0000 http://digidsolutions.com/?p=1345#comment-43 Thank you for the valuable prep tips when upgrading to Snow Leopard. I'd like to ask a question. I have a Mac Pro with four 1TB internal drives. If I do a Time Machine backup of all my files, but it's on an internal drive instead of external, am I risking that my backup files will not be accessible? In other words, should I expect the upgrade to Snow Leopard will make my document files stored on internal drives unusable? Thank you. Thank you for the valuable prep tips when upgrading to Snow Leopard. I’d like to ask a question. I have a Mac Pro with four 1TB internal drives. If I do a Time Machine backup of all my files, but it’s on an internal drive instead of external, am I risking that my backup files will not be accessible? In other words, should I expect the upgrade to Snow Leopard will make my document files stored on internal drives unusable? Thank you.

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