- ARQ recommended by Jerry for backing up to Amazon S3 or Amazon Glacier - ZyWALL USG50 recommended by Joe for site-to-site VPN tunnels, very stable router - “cool” clients - dealing with semi-technical “inside guys” at clients: “don’t open the box”; work from a checklist; “ don’t touch the server” and “don’t touch the network” - Ubiquiti PicoStation recommended by Jerry for extending wireless networks outdoors or to another building - Migration Assistant woes: Plan A, Migration Assistant, hung with less than a minute remaining; Plan B, Carbon Copy Cloner, detected I/O errors; Plan C, restore from Time Machine backup, worked like a charm - Jerry called it: Migration Assistant was failing due to bad blocks on the source machine - recommendation before starting Migration Assistant: fully update source machine, verify disk partition map and file system, rebuild disk directory, and check for bad blocks