Black Friday

[ehowton]

Bit of a scare yesterday morning. For reasons I can't entirely articulate, I chose to unmount my iTunes volume from the PowerMac G4 and power down the box last night. This morning, the iTunes volume didn't do anything but 'click' on power up. My entire collection of music. ~18,000 songs, 67GB. Most of it is backed up.

On CDROM.

Offsite.

External drive clicking can be attributed to something other than hard drive failure, and that's low power. Though this is a 7200 rpm 8MB/cache full-size drive (read, requires power to run) its still in an external enclosure, so I removed it from its case and put in inside the G4.

That worked!

But getting anything across the G4's low-speed USB 1.0 port is painfully tedious. Still, something has to be done. I loaded up the kids and trekked out on Black Friday to brave the crowds around noon. Oddly enough, there weren't any. And there were no lines at the checkout. And I found a 500GB external USB drive for $87.

Backing up teh max0r in preparation for upgrading to Leopard was a non-issue. The high-speed USB 2.0 port on the mini is just that: High-speed. The idea is once I backup/restore everything, this new .5TB drive can become my Time Machine. drax0r recently implemented an identical strategy. So with everything backed up on the mini, I turn to the G4 and copy the contents from the now internal 160GB drive to a folder on the new drive. 30 hours to transfer. Good grief.

Leopard is fast and beautiful and I love the new dock and everything about it. I'm very excited. Until I install the 10.5.1 upgrade, which craters my box.

So I reinstall, and everything works great. drax0r suggests reinstalling the update, which craters my box.

So I reinstall, and nothing works.

At all.

Further attempts to reinstall are blocked by copies of archiving my data to the point my boot drive fills up. Thank goodness for Terminal and the rm -Rf command.

Re-re-re-re-re-reinstalling again now.

Comments

[irulan-amy.livejournal.com]

A 500GB drive for $87 - mind you, I don't know a ton about computer language, but isn't that an awesome deal?!

Um, here's to re-re-re-re-re-reinstalling!

[galinda822.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to get my Leopard! Of course, I'll have Christopher help me install it.
BTW...I think he's going full-time with Apple in January - as a trainer!

[time3.livejournal.com]

Good luck with getting your library back on-line. This has always been one of the reasons I keep my library on a RAID array. I currently hold our 65G library of music on Solaris 10 in ZFS (RAID-Z) across 4 33.6G UW 10k SCSI disks on the Enterprise 250. I have it backed up on a single 80G EIDE disk in case.

Leopard, I've read, comes with ZFS, so you are able to do nice arrays now in OS X.

[schpydurx.livejournal.com]

For reasons I can't entirely articulate, I chose to unmount my iTunes volume from the PowerMac G4 and power down the box last night.
You'd should be thankful that I wasn't around for this charade. I would have interrogated you The Good Shepherd style.


Most of it is backed up.
You're the IT professional. You're the one who takes care of incalculable amounts of important sensitive data each day, yet you don't back your data up with the same care? How can one rule the city if he have not rule over his own household?


On CDROM.
You miserable, lying fuck! You said that Read-Write capability and super-fast SCSI interface should've been the future of removable storage over CD-R. and I''ve still got my Jazz drive, and by God they'll have to pull that from my cold, dead hands! I'll never go backwards!

A lot of damned good that did you! And then, to add insult to injury, you claim that you backed up on CDs? What kind of a hypocritical prick are you? Go buy 66 more Jazz drives.


The idea is once I backup/restore everything, this new .5TB drive can become my Time Machine.
I had Time Machine from day 0 of miniMax0r.

30 hours to transfer.
Where are you Jazz drives now?

Leopard is fast and beautiful and I love the new dock and everything about it.
I thought you had previously updated teh max0r to Leopard, so I don't understand why this sentence appears in this post. Surely this wasn't the first time that you had seen the new Dock. Since you don't expand on this sentence, the only thing that makes any sense to me as to why it would be featured here is that you were trying to say something quickly and witty about Mac so that you could keep up with your exposition to staccato theme.

So I reinstall, and everything works great. drax0r suggests reinstalling the update, which craters my box..
Now, I'm not going to say that drax0r is an idiot and in fact I can see his logic: maybe it was something that you did to fuck up the upgrade, so if we try a fresh install that will remove you from the equation. But at the same time, with less then a week to go till the party, if 10.5 was working great after reinstallation, why bother with the upgrade until after the party? There wasn't anything in the upgrade that you absolutely had to have for the party, was there?

So I reinstall, and everything works great. drax0r suggests reinstalling the update, which craters my box.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, this time expecting different results.

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Black Friday

[snapper521.livejournal.com]

Sorry? *shrug* Tomas tried to read this post to me, but I don't understand anything other then you "crashed" and had to go buy a new drive. :-P blah.

Sorry I'm so computer illiterate... that will change eventually. Just might not be for a little while. :-(

[celtmanx.livejournal.com]

"So I reinstall, and everything works great. drax0r suggests reinstalling the update, which craters my box."

Sounds like that sugestion to use an optical mouse on a glass table top!!!