Back-up of Your QuickTime Streaming Server on an External Drive
If you have a QuickTime Streaming Server you can create a back-up of your server onto your external firewire drive. This will help in the event of a hard drive problem or any issues that might arise with your QuickTime Streaming Server. It's a great way to get you back up and running quickly. Creating a solution like this will probably cost between $150 - $250 for a suitable hard drive. The 160 GB Lacie external firewire drives are excellent for this purpose and provide enough space to create two partitions, one for your Mac OS X Server that includes the QuickTime Streaming Server and another partition available for extra storage for backing up other items.
The key to this process is making sure your Hard Drive is formated for Mac OS Extended Journaled with two partitions then when you go to install the Mac OS X Server you can choose the partition that you want to install the Mac OS X Server on to.
Once you install your Mac OS X Server to your external fire hard drive you can select that OS by going to the startup disk and selecting the disk with the MAC OS X Server software which can be found under System Preferences. Restart your computer an it will boot as the QuickTime Streaming Server.
