[OSX-Users] Re: Time Capsule quandary

[Steve Harris]

On 10 Jun 2009, at 13:45, Timothy Miles-Board wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I want to buy a backup solution for at home to keep data on my mac  
> mini (photos, images, videos) and macbook (work stuff) safe. I plan  
> to use Time Machine on both.
>
> Should I just splash out on a Time Capsule, or is there a cheaper,  
> better alternative?

I backup to a mac mini with en external USB harddrive plugged in.

You can connect to the server with Finder (tell it it remember the  
remote password), and then pick the remote, external drive as the  
destination for TimeMachine, and then TM will try to autoconnect to  
the server everytime it wants to runs a backup.

It's pretty convenient, but I don't have a TimeCpasule to compare to.

- Steve