<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I find myself increasingly using DropBox for any non-sensitive stuff.<div><br></div><div>JISC had an open call a while back for up to £300k for someone to develop a version tailored to UK HE use, and with all data held in the UK. Don't know whether that was funded or if it's in progress.</div><div><br></div><div>ECS DropBox anyone? :)</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><div><br><div><div>On 15 Sep 2011, at 10:21, Chris Andrews wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<div>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.<div><br></div><div>Chris</div></div>
<div></div><p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Thursday, 15 September 2011 at 10:12, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>What's a strategy for maintaining a time machine back up while on the road?</div><div><br></div><div>I used to just back up the laptop to a drive but of late have been using wireless timecapsule at home</div><div><br></div><div>wondering what to do when travelling for considerable chunks? </div><div><br></div><div>is there a way to move elegantly between an external drive and a Timecapsule?</div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div><br></div><div>mc</div><div><br></div><br><div>
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