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I just bought a 1TB external drive. I would like to set up time machine to backup wireless. Is there anyway I can do this with the components I have now. Which are 1 macbook osx 10.6, 1 desktop pc running win7, 1 1TB external, and multiple linksys wireless routers.
Obv I want the macbook to be wireless.
If there is no solution using these components what would I need?
Possible fixes: airport extreme? another mac?
It's worth noting that, even with a Time Capsule, backing up over wireless commonly results in corruption due to the wireless cutting out in the middle of a backup. A discussion of this issue, as well as some solutions, are here:
http://devwhy.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-time-capsule-is-doomed-to-suck.html
2I have been backing up several machines wirelessly, including multiple laptops that are close-and-go regularly, for over a year without a problem. While there were major issues in the initial release of Time Machine, software updates addressed many & Snow Leopard's TM has many significant additional fixes and performance improvements. – bbum – 2009-09-02T03:54:57.190
2As a matter of fact, a comment on that very weblog from Dominic, one of the Filesystem engineers at Apple, indicates that with the latest versions of TM and TC, it has proven impossible to induce corruption through power outages, etc. Certainly, the windows box in the mix is a little different than a TC, but saying this is totally broken is misleading, at this time. – bbum – 2009-09-02T03:56:45.110