[OSX-Users] Re: Time Capsule quandary

[Jules]

On 10/06/2009 14:05, Steve Harris wrote:
> 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.
I have a Time Capsule and am very happy with it. I have found it a lot 
more reliable than the external-disk-hung0-off-a-Mac-mini route.

Don't buy a networked external hard disk, Time Machine won't support it.

Jules

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