Re: moving Time Machine disc to Airport Extreme?

On Feb 18, 2013, at 4:42 PM, objectwerks inc =
<chad+macosx-AU1NHruoRJaEK/[email protected]> wrote:

Hey Chad, thanks for the quick come back!

> I suspect it will work but you will have to "start over" with the =
backups because the way that TM uses a remote disk is different than a =
local disk.  You should also have to go into TM on the laptop and tell =
it to use the remote disk.

That's unfortunate given the slow performance of air backups, but if I =
can achieve a situation where my daughter's school papers get backed up =
with minimal, and ideally, zero, intervention on her part, it will be =
worth it.

> I have not done with with an APE but I do backup with Time Machine =
over the net to a remote disk on an OpenSolaris machine (with ZFS =
backing).   I suspect it is analogous to what I do.

I didn't realize that file server backups were an option yet. It didn't =
work when I first attempted it back in 2008 or so.


/david

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david herren-lage, shoreham, vt

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