Re: moving Time Machine disc to Airport Extreme?

On Feb 18, 2013, at 3:05 PM, David Herren <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Feb 18, 2013, at 4:42 PM, objectwerks inc =
<chad+macosx-AU1NHruoRJaEK/[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hey Chad, thanks for the quick come back!
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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You just make your file server look like an time capsule, basically if I =
understand correctly.  Anyway, there are lots of HOW TO docs on the net =
on how you get it working with a file server or NAS or whatever.

I have an OpenSolaris box with netatalk running (2.x -- the one that =
supports Lion+ logins) and flipped a few bits and it works.  The =
OpenSolaris (really OpenIndiana) is using ZFS as the underlying FS with =
2 disks in mirror mode.