Previously, I had to use my MacBook as a file server. Given it's relatively small drive, I had to hook up my two external hard drives to it directly. It ceased to be portable. I couldn't use my G4 PowerMac or PowerBook, so that left me with my MacBook.
I took the plunge for a NAS last week and it's up and running. It looks like a great system that can serve up our files and provide backup options if I hook up an external drive to it.My biggest problem right now is getting our files on to it. I've got over 350GB of files and transferring them via ethernet is going to take a while. If it were only that, I could wait. In fact, we'd probably be finished now. The real problem is that my Mac isn't copying all of the files. I'll leave it and then return to find that the copying process has halted and I don't really know what has and what hasn't been copied.
I should probably write the MacCast and find out what they have to say, because this is really frustrating.
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I have to say that I'm less than pleased with the Linkstation Live. Most recently, I had to download and reinstall the Firmware to get it to work. I tried this out on a whim because I wasn't able to connect to the web management tools through the network, but I was seeing something in the Buffalo NAS application. What gave me a clue was that I wasn't getting any specific information about the NAS from the application. The messed up thing was that all my shares were deleted. The data was there, but I had to recreate my shares to gain access to the data. I suspected I had to do this because when I tried to access the NAS I only had one share, the default, and it was populated with my pictures. I have no idea why that share was maintained, but who cares at this point.
I still haven't been able to back up the drive. I have to sift through more of the KB docs to see what I can learn about troubles with file sizes or document paths. Each of the drives are XFS, so I shouldn't be having so may problems, but who knows.
I think I also need to turn off the "trashbins" for each of the shares. I went to my Audio share and realized that it was bloated with strange "Genius" files - I recently updated iTunes to v.8 and it features a Genius thing that I have yet to figure out.
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