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Garmin VIRB Elite camera

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RNC said:
My experience with Time Machine is that it's a steaming POS.

I also keep a NAS at home for backups (using FreeNAS) and Time Machine seems to simultaneously fail and cause the network related drivers/apps to crash right along with it.

Might be related to poor AFP support in FreeNAS but that would be easily solved if Time Machine better supported NFS, which I never got to work just right either.

Apple screwed the pooch when they abandoned ZFS implementation, I was really looking forward to that. If they had gone ahead with ZFS we could have all sorts of backup/replication goodies built in, that are not the crap that is Time Machine.
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It's absolutely the AFP support in FreeNAS. There is the ability to support NFS but it doesn't do the auto mount/dismount like AFP. I'm using straight Ubuntu and I do get occasional backup failures but it's relatively rare. You can use something like crashplan on your freenas as well and use that, but the big advantage of TM is that you can restore using the recovery partition. With any other backup (besides carbon copy cloner) you have to reinstall the os and backup SW first and then restore.

ZFS isn't all it's cracked up to be. There's a lot of CPU overhead and other trade offs that companies that leverage it in its products have to deal with. I do agree it's time for apple to ditch HFS and move to a more modern FS.
 
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I hate to contribute further to the thread drift... But my experience with Time Machine has been pretty darn good. For my MacBook Pro, I use an external USB drive connected to an Apple AirPort Extreme, and have it set to backup pretty much continuously. For my desktop Mac, I just use an external USB drive, with the settings set the same way.

My final "backup" mechanism is that I use the free versions of both OneDrive and DropBox to both synchronize data between all of our family's devices (including a PC, 2 Macs, 2 iPads, and 2 iPhones) as well as being a "failsafe" for all of the TimeMachine (and Windows Backup, which I have running to a USB drive on the PC).

Periodically (about once a month or so) I go into each of the backup drives just to make sure they are accessible and everything is working right. About once a quarter I will run the surface analysis on those USB drives to make sure things are going OK. It's not very good a "predictive failure analysis", but does help to ensure everything is kept clean and accessible.

I've had two hard drive failures (one on PC and one on Mac) and in both cases was able to recover everything. Comparing Time Machine recovery to Windows Backup recovery is where you see the differences... Time Machine makes it easy enough that my non-computer-savvy wife could do it pretty easily, whereas every Windows backup / restore software I've ever used is an ordeal for even an IT professional to deal with...

As a result, I'm pretty well "sold" on Time Machine.
 
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TylerB24 said:
ZFS isn't all it's cracked up to be. There's a lot of CPU overhead and other trade offs that companies that leverage it in its products have to deal with. I do agree it's time for apple to ditch HFS and move to a more modern FS.
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True, there is the overhead, but it's more memory than CPU. And hey, memory is cheap. ZFS imo delivers on the promise of the I in RAID (inexpensive).

I have it on remotely administered web servers and it provides some benefits in such an application. 1) Hardware independent, if the motherboard fries any Joe Schmoe can put whatever in it as a replacement and it'll boot right back up. 2) Very good error detection due to the hash of the journal. It picks up drive errors well before SMART does. Linux file systems suffer from the same things that HFS does in many ways. The journal is relied upon but not reliable.

TylerB24 said:
You can use something like crashplan on your freenas as well and use that, but the big advantage of TM is that you can restore using the recovery partition.
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It's the Mac that crashes, not the NAS. Just the network utilities. I think I nailed it down to the presence of both CIFS and AFP on the same IP. Remnants of Apple trying to convert the server world into their protocol I assume. That's a problem that can't be fixed without running AFP in a jail with its own IP, and I'm not gonna go to that sort of trouble, I'll just not bother with Time Machine. It's easy enough to backup important things with rsync.

OSX is a great OS, that unfortunately is owned by Apple :D.
 
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JimParker256 said:
I hate to contribute further to the thread drift... But my experience with Time Machine has been pretty darn good. For my MacBook Pro, I use an external USB drive connected to an Apple AirPort Extreme, and have it set to backup pretty much continuously. For my desktop Mac, I just use an external USB drive, with the settings set the same way.

My final "backup" mechanism is that I use the free versions of both OneDrive and DropBox to both synchronize data between all of our family's devices (including a PC, 2 Macs, 2 iPads, and 2 iPhones) as well as being a "failsafe" for all of the TimeMachine (and Windows Backup, which I have running to a USB drive on the PC).

Periodically (about once a month or so) I go into each of the backup drives just to make sure they are accessible and everything is working right. About once a quarter I will run the surface analysis on those USB drives to make sure things are going OK. It's not very good a "predictive failure analysis", but does help to ensure everything is kept clean and accessible.

I've had two hard drive failures (one on PC and one on Mac) and in both cases was able to recover everything. Comparing Time Machine recovery to Windows Backup recovery is where you see the differences... Time Machine makes it easy enough that my non-computer-savvy wife could do it pretty easily, whereas every Windows backup / restore software I've ever used is an ordeal for even an IT professional to deal with...

As a result, I'm pretty well "sold" on Time Machine.
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+1 on Apples Time Machine and plane and simple like everything on Apples products and works perfect for backups, never would thought I would have went from 100% Microsoft till my son a computer major set me up with an iMac running OSX and Microsoft with Apples program BootCamp to run Windows and my business applications, six years later both systems running perfect and would never buy another Microsoft computer or operating system as all the software experts love Apples OSX system and far superior operating system.
 
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similar experience here. Hard core WIN user and a colleague bought me an iMac in 2008 as a gift. I stared at the box for weeks dreading it and finally one Saturday night I dove into it and by Monday was flogging all of my WIN hardware on Kijiji. Bought my mom one for Christmas three years ago because I was tired of driving 100 Kms to go find out 'what have you done now !' and support from everywhere (less that you can mess up on the Mac anyway). Snuck a MBP into the company when nobody was looking for me and have AppleTV's on wall mounted TV's in offices or ceiling mounted projectors in the training rooms. The $ 89 solution to showing IOS anywhere ! Time Machine at home is my WAP and keeps everything backed up.

Yes, there have been problems. Had a full HDD failure in my 27" iMac that was coincident with a Time Machine backup failure and I lost EVERYTHING and also lost an SSD in the MBP but had a backup handy.

The comment I would say is that my iMac is 6 years old and my MBP is 3 and they are both running the same OS as the out of the box models today and doing it well and the $ to keep the software to the latest is pennies compared to the never ending Win OS updates. I run Microsoft Office and even though I have Fusion ( like parallels ) installed on my iMac, I have not used it since Foreflight came out and I stopped using my WIN based flight planning software.

+1 here
 
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Thanks to Tony Varga for the inspiration to get a Garmin VIRB Elite action camera! I finally got a new MacBook Pro to do the editing, and here is a link to my video effort on YouTube: http://youtu.be/DYdXOsx2Grw

The video shows a short flight from Winston-Salem, NC to the Sugar Valley Fly-In near Mocksville, NC.

I configured a mount for the rear tiedown using RAM mounts, a variation from Tony's suggestion. I'll detail that in a future post. In the meantime, note the airplane shadow on both takeoff and landing! :D

Andy
 
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Tony, way cool! Thanks for sharing! See you next year in Norman, OK
 
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commander62j said:
Thanks to Tony Varga for the inspiration to get a Garmin VIRB Elite action camera! I finally got a new MacBook Pro to do the editing, and here is a link to my video effort on YouTube: http://youtu.be/DYdXOsx2Grw

The video shows a short flight from Winston-Salem, NC to the Sugar Valley Fly-In near Mocksville, NC.

I configured a mount for the rear tiedown using RAM mounts, a variation from Tony's suggestion. I'll detail that in a future post. In the meantime, note the airplane shadow on both takeoff and landing! :D

Andy
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Nice video and you would have got 1st place in the spot landing if you used full flaps and looked like in the video maybe 20 degrees?
 
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CenAir said:
Nice video and you would have got 1st place in the spot landing if you used full flaps and looked like in the video maybe 20 degrees?
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Hey Paul, I think he was flying LOF (Lean of Flap.)
 
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Scott

Wicked Funny and looked like LOF to me and could have been a X/wind component not knowing the conditions, and you know I would be ROF when conditions permit in landings dragging it in for a landing.
 
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Link didn't work

Andy
 
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Very cool
 
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Man...you leave the junk hanging in the wind for a long time :eek:

Neat airport !
 
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Nice video and throw in 20 degrees of flaps next time and will see some even better performance on takeoff, great video and looking forward to more. Post it also on You Tube as if you search you tube very few Commander 112/114 videos online.
 
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Ok Tony, Now THAT video was flat out MOTIVATING!!!! I can not wait till training in my clubs Skyhawk 172 is complete (this coming summer:confused:). Purchasing a Commander is among the first things I intend to accomplish once certificated, (Yea guys I know..., I will be contacting Judy for assistance:D). My second accomplishment of course will be pursuing an instrument training in my own damn airplane!!!!!
 
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Hello all. With all the videos I saw on this post, I had to share one of mine that I did in a cherokee 180 I sold last August. Made a bracket and clamped it to the step. Tied it to the audio in the plane. The bracket should work on the Commander when I get it one the 26th.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gt-5nK32tc
 
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How did you get the altitude and speed on the video? Is that the camera tracking with GPS?
Nice video thanks for sharing.
 
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Talking about Commander videos :

This has some very nice footage of a 114 in flight ....posted in Dec '2016


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PejDC-ThI4

(Thank you , Sherman for pointing out that i had no link in here .. )
 
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