#MAC OS DISK UTILITY RAID EL CAPITAN UPDATE#
#MAC OS DISK UTILITY RAID EL CAPITAN FULL#

Thanks for your help thus far most enlightening! I'm no expert at the command line, but I've managed to ascertain that I have a disk problem.

#MAC OS DISK UTILITY RAID EL CAPITAN UPDATE#

Update (Update the settings of an existing RAID)ĭiskutil appleRAID with no options will provide help on that verb Remove (Remove a spare or member disk from an existing RAID)Įnable (Convert a volume into a single disk RAID set) RepairMirror (Repair a damaged RAID mirror set)Īdd (Add a spare or member disk to an existing RAID) List (Display the current status of RAID sets)Ĭreate (Create a RAID set on multiple disks) If your RAID is still working typing this command in Terminal will tell you the status: I am set up to have Time Machine do its thing hourly/daily/etc. Smaller incremental change issues or the 'Oh crap I deleted my project!!'. Time Machine would then be used for a quick restore from

#MAC OS DISK UTILITY RAID EL CAPITAN FULL#

Also, doing a full system restore from a clone can usuallyīe faster than using Time Machine. The bootable clone can get you back up and running immediately should something happenĪnd allow to fix things at a later time.

Use one drive for Time Machine and use the other drive as a bootable system clone. In Terminal, simply type diskutil and enter to find all the command 'verbs' and options are.Įven in the with the old version of Disk Utility, there were still command line options availableįWIW, what I would do instead of having Time Machine writing to a RAID, I would continue to It may be there is some bug in the GUI that shows RAID volumes as RAID arrays can still be configured via the command line version diskutilīefore doing anything, you may want to check via diskutil whether the drives are still in factĬonfigured as RAID. RAID support has only been removed from the Disk Utility GUI I've read that Apple has deliberately removed this, so it's a feature, not a problem.

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