[OSX-Users] Re: backing up while on road away from time capsule

[Nick Gibbins]

I think that mc might have meant ECS home filestore...

Changing the subject slightly, what's the preferred way of mounting
ECS filestore under OS X? I used to use Expandrive, but it's a bit
pricey for what's basically only a fancy UI over MacFUSE.

Nick

On 15 Sep 2011, at 11:52, Jules wrote:

> http://tinyurl.com/6dpxyjr
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> On 15/09/2011 11:49, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:
>> is there a page that describes this service Jules?
>> 
>> 
>> On 15 Sep 2011, at 11:45, Jules wrote:
>> 
>>> Lion will continue to do Time Machine backups to spare space on your laptop's own hard disk while it's away from its Time Capsule. Obviously this is no protection against disk failure, but it does provide protection against accidental file deletion or corruption.
>>> 
>>> Other than that, as other people say, copy important stuff elsewhere, e.g. memory stick, tiny external hard disk (WD My Passport disks are very good for this), cloud storage service, or your ECS home filestore.
>>> 
>>> (Why does everyone use Dropbox when we've had network file storage for over 20 years?)
>>> 
>>> J
>>> 
>>> On 15/09/2011 10:21, Chris Andrews wrote:
>>>> To my knowledge, there is no elegant way of moving between a Time Capsule and an external drive - for one thing, the TC backup is as a sparse-bundled disk image where the drive backup is straight onto a HFS+ volume. Probably best solution is just to back up important stuff manually to memory sticks.
>>>> 
>>>> Chris
>>>> On Thursday, 15 September 2011 at 10:12, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> What's a strategy for maintaining a time machine back up while on the road?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I used to just back up the laptop to a drive but of late have been using wireless timecapsule at home
>>>>> 
>>>>> wondering what to do when travelling for considerable chunks? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> is there a way to move elegantly between an external drive and a Timecapsule?
>>>>> 
>>>>> thanks
>>>>> 
>>>>> mc
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> dr. m.c. schraefel, ph.d, f.bcs
>>>>> nsca cscs, zhealth master trainer, rkcII, ck-fms, ikff ckt
>>>>> 
>>>>> Reader, Agents Interaction and Complexity Group
>>>>> Senior Research Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering
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>>>>> University of Southampton,    fx +44 (0) 23 8059 2865
>>>>> Southampton, Hampshire, UK, SO17 1BJ
>>>>> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mc
>>>>> 
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>> dr. m.c. schraefel, ph.d, f.bcs
>> nsca cscs, zhealth master trainer, rkcII, ck-fms, ikff ckt
>> 
>> Reader, Agents Interaction and Complexity Group
>> Senior Research Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering
>> Electronics and Computer Science                 ph +44 (0) 23 8059 8372
>> University of Southampton,
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>> fx +44 (0) 23 8059 2865
>> Southampton, Hampshire, UK, SO17 1BJ
>> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mc
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