Is it normal for a LaCie 2big dock to take several days to rebuild its RAID 1 array following the replacement of a failed disk ?
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Said backup was also surprisingly hard to perform, as I did it on a Synology NAS, and neither cp -pR nor rsync -a are able to properly preserve the file dates in that case. As the Finder will keel over at copying so many files (2TB in total), the only tool I could find to do it correctly was Transmit from Panic Software.
The next frustrating part came when I discovered there was no way to resize the partitions I had on the 2big RAID array (one APFS for file storage and one old MacOS Journaled for Time Machine) to use the available 2TB (because the 6TB HDs have been replaced by 8TB ones). I had to completely re-partition the HD and am currently restoring from backup.
Turns out it was because the volumes were still mounted, and one of the partitions was used by Time Machine. Once this was disabled, rebuilding was over in a few hours.
As one of the HDs of my LaCie 2Big dock has failed, I swapped it with another one. It's configured in RAID 1, so it's rebuilding the array, but it's taking ages to do so. It barely reached 11% in 24h. I'd be quicker just copying the data elsewhere and reconfiguring a new array from scratch.
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Following up on the HD failure of my old iMac, I've now switched to an M4 Mac mini, and it went remarkably smoothly. I set it up by restoring from a Time Machine backup, and except for a few settings and authentications here and there, I found myself back in the same situation file-wise as I was. Backblaze + Time Machine make for a very safe a reliable duo.
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It seems a very common criticism against Liquid Glass is that it's distracting from content even though it's supposed to highlight it. I think it's possible it appears so because for now it's still brand new and therefore very noticeable. We'll have to reevaluate that a few months after the release. #wwdc25 #liquidglass .