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Backup tool for Mac OS:X

Backup tool for Mac OS X. Allows to back things up to an external hard drive or an Apple Time Capsule.

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Ubuntu with Netatalk and Samba TimeMachine can't connect

I installed netatalk on my Ubuntu Server a few weeks ago and configured it so that I could use Timemachine from my mac to backup on a server instead of a external hard drive. It worked really good until yesterday when I installed Samba to be able to…
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Apple Time Capsule - only allowing one machine to connect at a time?

It is probably something silly, but... I have just set up a Time Capsule, and it connects to the outside world, and one of the two Macs in the house can connect to it at a time - but not both. Is there a setting I'm overlooking somewhere? (I have…
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Perform a full time-machine restore without an install disc?

I have a computer with a blank hard drive where, fortunately, the user has a complete Time Machine backup. Unfortunately, my Leopard install Disc was eaten by an unhappy disk drive, and while I do have some install discs kicking about, they are…
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Backing up Mac OS X Server & User Home Directories

We're setting up Mac OS X Server on a Mac Mini Server for the first time an just getting to grips with it. Now I'm trying to sort out a good backup solution for both the server and the user's home directories. I've setup Time Machine in the System…
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Mac OS X Server mobile account VS Time Machine Network Backup

I am installing a Server @home to manage the mac client's of my family. First I wanted to make time machine Backups over the internal network to an external Hard-drive which is connected to my Mac OS X Server (10.6) but when I read about the mobile…
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Partition RAID or multiple RAIDs per partitions

I'm trying to setup a RAID 1 with two HDDs. This is what I'm trying to achieve: data partition (ext4) Mac TimeMachine backup partition (HFS+) I want to have RAID over both partitions, but I still want to be able to pull one of the drives and…
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How do I move a time machine folder on an SMB share without using MacOS Finder?

I have a SMB share for Apple's time machine that I want to move to another drive. I tried to do rsync -arHAX but the destination size blows up and becomes larger than the size of the destination disk. I don't understand what is causing the size…
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My network drive disappears from Mac OS Finder

I have recently bought a Netgear WNDR3800 router to use it in my home network. But just the same day I installed it, I noticed a strange behaviour of Finder and iTunes. Let me explain it further. There is a Synology DS111 NAS attached to that router…
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