Ash Furrow @ashfurrow@mastodon.technology

@announcements real passive voice here, eh? “While upgrades are done”

@brunoph cool! would be ran on the machine that’s backing up over the network, or the machine which is serving the shared drive? both, probably 😂

@angristan not to my understanding. RAID is support by the OS independent of the file system. but within the APFS system (which is mirrored with RAID 1) there are two APFS volumes, which are like partitions except both have access to as much free space as is available on the disk.

@AskChip nice! striping seems really cool.

@shadowfacts haha, sadly not. lil mac is a mac mini.

The RAID array is all set up and working :+1: I had some trouble getting macOS Time Machine to behave, but figured it out eventually. Two drives -> RAID 1 array -> Encrypted APFS format -> two APFS volumes (one for each computer to use as a TM backup destination).

The initial backup, over wifi, took a few days 😅 But it did finish, and incremental backups are quick!

@bclindner they were so pure, a product of a simpler time 😭 https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22388238/asus-eee-pc-netbook-laptop-line-linux-ipad-pro

@MmeLibertine I get to help a family member move out of their shitty housing situation into their own apartment tomorrow ✨

good morning fedi 🥰

Okay, I've ordered a pair of 6TB external drives for RAID-redundant Time Machine backups, should be here next weekend 🙌 A lot cheaper than a NAS 😅 Thanks for the validation all!

@Shrigglepuss real pain to my sham friends, and champagne to my real friends 🎉

@JonYoder thanks!

@JonYoder makes sense!

@JonYoder so yes, it would give me that, but wouldn’t a computer give me more options than a NAS because a computer is a more general-purpose machine?

@norm I've already got the machine setup is the thing, seems like this would be the least expensive option, too 👍

@xorowl @Dee @Lofenyy

@xorowl 🤩

@xorowl this does look cool tho