On Feb 18, 2013, at 2:37 PM, David Herren <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings- > > I have searched the web, but all of the articles I find are quite old. My > daughter has a TIme Machine disc that I set up for her to back up her laptop. > Of course it works beautifully as along as she remembers to plug in. > > So I'm wondering if I were to move that particular disk to the Airport > Extreme would Time Machine see it and continue with backups for her laptop? > Will she have to manually mount the drive each time (which would be hardly > any better than the current situation) or is there some magic once I use Time > machine to point to the airdisc? > > Now obviously I could just plug this in and try it out and not bother the > list. However, the airport extreme is mounted on a beam 3 stories above my > living room and installing up there is a significant effort if I find out > it's no better than the haphazard backups she is getting now. Dave 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. 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. Chad _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
