Many Drobo FS owners out there who upgraded to Lion were unpleasantly surprised by the fact that their Drobo no longer behaved like they used to. After months, drobo released new firmware, but it didn't improve things all that much. With the new firmware, the Drobo FS: * is slow or entirely unresponsive, Time Machine …

After lies about Dropbox Employees not being able to see your files, then proving that they do not do regression testing on their security, the latest change in terms of service really was the last drop. So I dropped dropbox. I had become dependent on Dropbox to transfer files between my private and work machines, …

If Santa treated you particularly well this season, or you have put some of your savings to good use, chances are that you have a brand-new Drobo looking at you right now. Meanwhile, your Mac is happily making Time Machine backups to that trusty old local USB disk. So you want to use that new Drobo for Time Machine …

I had a 160GB drive holding my Time Machine backups. Because I wanted to backup external disks, and still wanted to be able to travel about a year back in time, I bought a 1TB USB disk. Stephen Foskett wrote a great article about how he migrated his TimeMachine backup to a larger disk, but it's lengthy and misses one …

Last week, lightning struck at my parents apartment building (literaly). Other damages aside, my dad's PC also died. The guy at the PC repair shop warned my dad that "we may need to wipe the HD, do you have a backup"? Ofcourse, all data was backed up daily and "off-site" at my house so all important …

For those people who have had problems accessing their files today, I remind you of the very old saying: "A file does not exist until it exists in two places" Naturaly, this means on two different physical places, preferably miles apart.

Hi, I just wanted to share with you that I actually recovered a mail item which I had written in Thunderbird for Windows with Time Machine. Yes, Apple's Time Machine. At work, we use Windows XP machines. Because I hate to wait 4 weeks for my mail program to load, I use …

Today I listened to a podcast called "For Mac Eyes Only", in which people were complaining about how Time Machine does not work "the way they want it to". I think this is utter crap, and I will explain why. To start off, I think I am safe to say that 99% of the people complaining about Time …

A while ago the drives in my fileserver (PPC Mac Mini) began dying on me, one after one. The disks were somewhat old (approx. 4 years) so I replaced them with 2 new Maxtor 500GB USB drives, and restored all data from my backups. The server came up and looked and worked like it had never died, but now had more …

Hi, just a quick reminder to myself and users of the AFP protocol (Apple File Protocol) who are wondering why it is not working. For some strange reason, if you start messing (deleting) the "Public" folder of any user which is on the system providing the AFP share, you will break the AFP protocol. I just …