All my syncs to Box, DropBox, etc. are handled by my Synology NAS. Since it still supports SMB1, the shared folders are easily mounted on the ol' PPC systems.
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Is there a "cloud storage" option for PPC?
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I use rsync.
The command line, Terminal, is not very pleasant, but it works.
Oh wait, no it doesn't work, I had to build a newer version ...
# rsync --version|sed q
rsync version 3.1.3 protocol version 31
# /usr/bin/rsync --version|sed q
rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29
The command line, Terminal, is not very pleasant, but it works.
Oh wait, no it doesn't work, I had to build a newer version ...
# rsync --version|sed q
rsync version 3.1.3 protocol version 31
# /usr/bin/rsync --version|sed q
rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29
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You just need to buy the Synology NAS (Network Attached Storage) first. That'll set you back from about $200 to more than $1200 depending on which NAS you want to buy.
Might be cheaper to find one on eBay, although NAS boxes are rarely sold on eBay with the hard drives so you'd probably need to buy a few of those.
After that I would guess it's just a matter of using an app or logging in to the NAS home page and setting up the software and RAID.
I'm thinking of going this way...I know it's costly since we try to maintain our old powerful machine that has a little backward compatibility
This seems like the simplest and most readily available solution to me, and it's how I have been moving files between my G3s and M1 Macs for a while. 'QuickFTP' is free from the App Store and runs on the M1 systems, and a download/install of an FTP client such as Fetch from macintoshgarden.org - from there files can be moved in either direction.
I have a free 10Gb hosting service, that I can access through ftp, that come with my internet provider. Can serve as storage tho I don't use it like that, but I must host at least a page there.
Been looking... there are other free services, like :
(disclaimer : I've never tried it)
5 Gb free. They seem to support webdav and sftp, so that would do even for a small "cloud" usable with OS9...
Maybe SSHFS on OSX could mount it... Will have to try.
Been looking... there are other free services, like :
(disclaimer : I've never tried it)
5 Gb free. They seem to support webdav and sftp, so that would do even for a small "cloud" usable with OS9...
Maybe SSHFS on OSX could mount it... Will have to try.
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For the record, my cheap solution is a 2010 Mac Mini server running High Sierra. I believe it’s SMB2. I am easily able to connect all my Macs, from G3s and G4s all the way up to my 2021 iPads and M1 Macs.
@mectojic I have a similar setup but I swap the server logic board into a regular 2010 mac mini case for the sake of using a superdrive and sharing it over the network and the little extra cpu power juice.
Those LaCie d2 drives look super-cool with their blue eyes
Those LaCie d2 drives look super-cool with their blue eyes
Aaaaaaaaaaaaa that nebulous blue eye button glow… post-traumatic flashbacks of my LaCie 1TB 301369U devouring itself just a year after getting it new (specifically, we think the embedded linux kernel which managed the xfs formatting of the 2x500GB
The several hours I spent
Whatever reverence I felt for LaCie in the mid ’90s, during the late 68040/early PPC 601 days, was obliterated by the ominous blue eye of doom. However unfairly to much better systems out there nowadays, like QNAP or Synology, I have an extremely hard time putting stock in an intermediary layer of file server handling which is handled, principally (if not solely), through a web interface. Thanks, but I’ll save the web interface for my router.
BRB wiping the panicked sweat from my brow…
UPDATE to add: there was a whole thread about this on MR starting about six weeks before mine failed.
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Drive failure is the number one reason I make a daily and weekly backup of drives. One goes to my NAS (the daily), but I realized that this could fail too (as you found out with the LaCIE). All my RAIDed drives are RAID 0, so one drive goes the whole thing goes. That's why I do a weekly backup which goes right up to Dropbox. Sure, the drive that has Dropbox on it could also fail, but I'm paying Dropbox monthly for 4.1TB. They'd better have their own backups, redundancy, etc or we're going to have problems.
But that weekly backup on Dropbox means this is an offsite backup which I can access from just about any Mac, anywhere I can get a connection. As much as I love WD Red drives and my NAS, one day it will fail.
Looking back at my old job, around 2006 I think, the RAID on the server at work failed. The IT guy we worked with was able to recover the data but we had to use a USB drive enclosure until the server got back up. That's when I started making backups.
When we got a new server around 2010, I put the old one to work as a backup. I had Syncback Pro running backups every 15 minutes on changed files only directly to the backup server. It meant that at any time I could have everyone connect to the backup server and pickup where they left off. The most we'd lose would be 15 minutes of work. I would have loved a direct mirror, but 15 minutes was the minimum amount of time I could give the app to complete a scan and backup without keeping it always running.
I never had to switch people over, but I did have to pull files a few times so it proved its worth. I never wanted to be stuck in the situation where the newspaper was on deadline and we'd either lost all our work for the week or couldn't access it. That and I was also compensating for the incredibly dim foresight my boss had about anything.
Do you need the speed of RAID 0 or is there another reason for that setup rather than e.g. RAID 5 or JBOD?
The device enclosures I have use either RAID 0, 1 or JBOD. I use RAID 0 because I want the capacity of two (or more) drives combined. JBOD means I have multiple drives. Backing up is my compensation for not using RAID 1.
You've probably seen how many network shares I have mounted to my desktop. Do I need more JBODs?
Hm. I thought JBOD concatenates several disks into one logical disk, combining the capacity, but writing data sequentially, filling one disk after another. That still means things (can) get nasty if one drive fails though.
@Amethyst1 yeah, at least in my Raid it does that, but its not clear to me what is the difference with a Raid 0, netherless I use Raid 10 or 5.
RAID 0 spreads all data over all drives. Say you have a file that can be broken into six chunks labelled A, B, C, D, E and F: a two-drive RAID 0 puts chunks A, C and E on the first drive and chunks B, D and F on the second drive. When accessing the file, it's read from two drives simultaneously, increasing transfer rates.
AFAIK, a JBOD also combines several drives into one but simply writes data sequentially, filling the first drive first and only moving to the other drive once the first drive is full.
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I may have misread things, it's been a while since I set these up.
That aside, I still prefer RAID 0. Both drives are being used equally. It can take me some time to fill a drive up, especially one attached to a Mac I don't use very often. I'd hate to have bought a drive, powered up and spinning, that never got used before it failed.
I managed to get things working using nfs instead of smb. I don't use Windows so I don't care about smb. I can now connect to the file server using nfs://path from the PowerPC Mac and from Linux machines. I've turned off samba on the server and will probably uninstall samba going forward.
In the past, I setup nfs shares on a PowerPC Mac. It seems that there are lots of options.
In the past, I setup nfs shares on a PowerPC Mac. It seems that there are lots of options.
A FoxBox or Fluid app was one way I was accessing Dropbox before Czo began maintaining the Dropbox app for us way back when.
But using a web interface is way more steps than simply dragging and dropping. And you can't open up files from a web interface in to an app.
I'll just put this here in case anyone wants to look through it:
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...leopard-snow-leopard-macs-to-dropbox.1865621/
I ought to tinker with nfs again. The one time I tried configuring and using it was during the late Panther/early Tiger days. I was unable to get it to work, so I stuck with afp and smb.