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ESUNintel
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| Hmm, I'm not sooo sure, I know it backups every night around midnight, it does one computer at a time, so it's usually done by 1AM. It backups the hard drive as it is in the Mac. If a Mac were to crash it is easier to back it up from Time Capsule than it would be the server. |
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Pleiades
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I see. For me, the big huge benefit of Time Machine and/or Time Capsule is the fact that it can do incremental backups, and since it's an Apple based solution, it captures all potential metadata that OS X uses.
I don't have a Time Capsule myself, but I am rolling network Time Machine backups by using my iMac that lives in my home theater system as a TM destination. I back up both the iMac and my girlfriend's MacBook on there, and it's been working like a champ since February. The backups on her MacBook take 5 to 10 minutes tops, and happen without any user interaction.
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ESUNintel
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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| ClunkClunk wrote: | I see. For me, the big huge benefit of Time Machine and/or Time Capsule is the fact that it can do incremental backups, and since it's an Apple based solution, it captures all potential metadata that OS X uses.
I don't have a Time Capsule myself, but I am rolling network Time Machine backups by using my iMac that lives in my home theater system as a TM destination. I back up both the iMac and my girlfriend's MacBook on there, and it's been working like a champ since February. The backups on her MacBook take 5 to 10 minutes tops, and happen without any user interaction. |
I'm happy with the WHS right now, since it does provide my the ease of remote access, and allows me to grant other users access to certain files; however, as I do find my self loosing my PC's to Mac's, I have really considered replacing the WHS with an OS X Server running on an iMac or even a Mini (I still have too look into how a RAID would work though), that way I don't have to worry about Windows messing something up. I'll see what happens though, cause I do use it for both personal use and my business, and I still have 2 PC's to worry about, one of them being a main desktop. ...but like I said, if they break down badly, or once it's time for an upgrade I'm more inclined to get a Mac over a PC now. If it becomes REALLY necessary to upgrade my server than I might consider a Mac Pro or even a real Apple server, but I guess it depends how my business does, as I barely started it. |
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