network attached storage

I'd found a lot of info on the net about using symlinks to allow iMovie to see network disks, but this always seemed like too much of an effort.

So this blog post was a real nice find.

Short form - you just need to set a default:

defaults write -app iMovie allowNV -bool true

The Pro series of NAS from ReadyNAS (Netgear) support iSCSI out of the box. But the NV+ 4disk unit does not. However - a third party plugin is available. Let's look at what is needed to get iSCSI connections between the ReadyNAS NV+ and an iMac running Snow Leopard.

Having a very large external disk I wanted to limit Time Machine to use only part of it.

To do so - you can use the same technology as time capsule does - sparseimages.

In the following:

HOSTNAME is the result of:

hostname -s

MAC is the mac address of the network adapter:

ifconfig en0 | grep ether | sed -e "s/.*ether //" | sed -e "s/://g"

Utilities

Time Tamer:

Listening to the digital story this morning prompted me to think about my Aperture setup.

Aperture has its "vault" functionality - but this only works to the local hard drive or to USB/firewire drives directly attached to the box.

I have a RAID5 based NAS (network attached storage) device which I would  far prefer to have my backups on - since I've had USB disks die on me before.

How to get the vault onto the network device?