Been there, suffered that. What I did: get on Ethernet by any means available, and use MacOS command line rsync so I could resume when interrupted without starting all over. Good luck!
Yeah I tried having wired repeatedly and for some reason Mac didn't like any of my USB ethernet adapters. Finally got one to work. I love my Mac but sometimes things are so much tougher on it.
Normally it isn't an issue because Mac actually is able to work with ExFat partitions but since we have larger and larger drives now we're seeing the issue where Mac doesn't like ones that have a larger allocation unit size. Technically it is fully readable on the Mac if I let it sit there for 2 to 4 hours mounting it... 😳
I put everything on individual UPS. Washington, DC Power is crappy in the middle of summer and the middle of winter, so short blinks too many times. I even put my stove on UPS too.
That sounds so expensive 😳 normally I don't have power issues because of how the grid near me is set up and I have the crucial stuff on UPS but part of the other issue is the network operations center that I get internet from also went down so even my devices that were all up and functional disconnected from the network as well because they thought it was a non-viable network
I know I can format the drive so that it works with Linux but the client had specifications for what he needed to drive to be formatted as. And I'm using beyond compare to transfer the files because I prefer it over Terra copy and I can see specifically if there are any missing files or any files that are different in any way which is what I need for a finalized file transfer like this
I would need 4 more than I currently have in use and since the NOC providing internet to my business also went out it would still result in the same issues I was dealing with
Why would you even try to do that on wifi? Also the internet should affect the internal network. buy a seperate switch for this. plug switch into UPS. Transfer the xfat into thw unix shell. heck of a lot easier
Because to recover the data I had to recover it in Windows and Mac does not like using drives that are formatted for Windows. The final drive has to be a Mac journal drive, so I need the data to go from a drive that functions with Windows properly to a drive that only functions with Mac properly. And considering it is 5 terabytes of data the easiest option is to use network storage for that much data and have redundancy.
Also I can't just transfer it using a shell because I need a program that will show and verify that every single file and folder is identical and was transferred properly I can't get that with a shell.
Yes there are dozens of different ways to verify copies and things like that but honestly in my shop we prefer not using anything that is specifically command-based because trying to teach someone how to do that and then also being able to use that to show a client. Also most command-based transfer options don't allow for easy pausing and stopping as needed. You also don't have the ability to select specific things without going very deep into building out your command and telling it specifically what to do
Been there, suffered that. What I did: get on Ethernet by any means available, and use MacOS command line rsync so I could resume when interrupted without starting all over. Good luck!
Yeah I tried having wired repeatedly and for some reason Mac didn't like any of my USB ethernet adapters. Finally got one to work. I love my Mac but sometimes things are so much tougher on it.
This is the first time I've heard someone say that Macs don't like ExFat.
Normally it isn't an issue because Mac actually is able to work with ExFat partitions but since we have larger and larger drives now we're seeing the issue where Mac doesn't like ones that have a larger allocation unit size. Technically it is fully readable on the Mac if I let it sit there for 2 to 4 hours mounting it... 😳
I put everything on individual UPS. Washington, DC Power is crappy in the middle of summer and the middle of winter, so short blinks too many times. I even put my stove on UPS too.
That sounds so expensive 😳 normally I don't have power issues because of how the grid near me is set up and I have the crucial stuff on UPS but part of the other issue is the network operations center that I get internet from also went down so even my devices that were all up and functional disconnected from the network as well because they thought it was a non-viable network
Teracopy is your friend, pause and start copy transfers and pickup from failed or incomplete transfers.
Also cant you format a drive into mac friendly and then use linux to transfer it from the exfat drive? (it guy but not a mac guy)
I know I can format the drive so that it works with Linux but the client had specifications for what he needed to drive to be formatted as. And I'm using beyond compare to transfer the files because I prefer it over Terra copy and I can see specifically if there are any missing files or any files that are different in any way which is what I need for a finalized file transfer like this
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I would need 4 more than I currently have in use and since the NOC providing internet to my business also went out it would still result in the same issues I was dealing with
Why would you even try to do that on wifi? Also the internet should affect the internal network. buy a seperate switch for this. plug switch into UPS.
Transfer the xfat into thw unix shell. heck of a lot easier
Because to recover the data I had to recover it in Windows and Mac does not like using drives that are formatted for Windows. The final drive has to be a Mac journal drive, so I need the data to go from a drive that functions with Windows properly to a drive that only functions with Mac properly. And considering it is 5 terabytes of data the easiest option is to use network storage for that much data and have redundancy.
Also I can't just transfer it using a shell because I need a program that will show and verify that every single file and folder is identical and was transferred properly I can't get that with a shell.
@@TheBeardedITGuy I think you could just use rsync to copy, and then hashdeep to confirm there's no errors.
Yes there are dozens of different ways to verify copies and things like that but honestly in my shop we prefer not using anything that is specifically command-based because trying to teach someone how to do that and then also being able to use that to show a client. Also most command-based transfer options don't allow for easy pausing and stopping as needed. You also don't have the ability to select specific things without going very deep into building out your command and telling it specifically what to do
Linux
Most distributions of Linux that I would use for something like this don't work with HFS or HFS+ partitions
Screw mac cant syand them sorry
Odd they can't work with Mac, I have used a few different RMM tools that do