November 1, 201015 yr Hey guys, I am i the process of trying to figure out if UnRAID will do everything I need. One of my first questions is using it with Apple's Aperture 3. I am a professional photographer and I thought being able to keep adding drives to the server would be great. Is anyone using Aperture with their box? I think you can save the master files off on another disc and have reference files on the laptop/desktop. The other question is with time machine. I have read several threads on it, but it seems that the latest osx update killed it. Are there any work around for this yet? I have 2 Macs and probably a 3rd coming that I would love to be able to backup to the UnRAID box. Other than that I will just be using it to download torrents and store other media, movies etc and stream them to my 360. Seems like there is a lot out there on that so that shouldn't be a problem. Lastly is anyone using the mymovies plug in on windows media center? I thought it would be cool to have the media stored on the the and then the nice mymovies for the front end on the media center pc's as well as the xbox. http://www.mymovies.dk/ Ok well sorry for the broad range of questions. If any of this is in a different thread, I'm sorry. I tried digging around for a while now.
December 31, 201015 yr Time Machine works for me also with 4.6.5 and the latest SL. Check out this one: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5184.msg56380#msg56380 It just depends on how the share is setup on unRAID. Just checked now again backing up to a SMB mounted disk share on unRAID and TM still works like a dream. Won't work via a User Share and the sparsebundle should be located directly in the root of the disk share.
December 31, 201015 yr You may use Aperture with unRAID two fold: First, if you like splitting up the library to put all the original media on an unRAID share and library somewhere else. Second, if you can configure iSCSI on unRAID, you can have a disk mounted "locally" on your Mac and use that iSCSI target either as an Aperture Vault or to hold directly the library. On the Mac you may use the GlobalSAN iSCSI client, works really good. I prefer to have my complete library on my laptop (on a 2nd HDD installed instead of the optical drive in the MBP) and backup it up within Aperture straight to a Vault on an iSCSI disk on the network. In my case the iSCSI disk is located on another (higher performance) NAS, however I don't see a reason why it should not be located on unRAID (if you can install iSCSI as it is not provided out of the box on unRAID). In any case having iSCSI is key as Aperture won't be happy to use "simple" network shares with full integration. Hope this helps!
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