Hi, I don't mind spending $20 for OS X server, though I was wondering how difficult it would be to set up what I want. I'm certain no expert. In your opinion, is it fairly easy for a non-expert to set up the remote TimeMachine backups with OX X server?
Thanks for your help, Gregg On Oct 30, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > I did this for years by manually mounting the remote volume, running the > initial backup, and then dismounting. Turn out that Time Machine is smart > enough to mount the remote volume by itself after that. > > However, I ran into this pernicious bug where the machine hosting the drive > would begin losing the count of network detachments from file sharing, while > keeping scrupulous count of the network attachments. After a while, it would > decide that more than 10 users were simultaneously filesharing from it, and > refuse to allow any more. I would have to turn off File Sharing on that > machine for 30 seconds to flush the counter, then turn it back on. It got to > the point where I was doing this every day or two, and the bug survived > several major OSes. So I took the plunge and ordered the Server version of > the OS. (That was back in Snow Leopard — now the Server is more of an > additional application package you install on the standard OS.) > > The bad news is that this reduced the problem, but didn’t eliminate it, at > least in Snow Leopard. The better news is that since Mountain Lion or so, I > haven’t seen that particular problem. Since then, I’ve found other value to > running Server, including preserving the ability for my family to continue to > use shared calendars (after Apple killed Sync Services in Lion) without being > forced to blow all the details of our lives out to “the cloud,” and the > ability to suck down system updates only once instead of once for every > machine we own. So in my opinion, for the minor price of the package, if > you’re going to run a machine as “a server,” run Server. > > On Oct 30, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a new Mac Pro (cylinder style) and an old Mac Pro (tower style), both >> running the latest Mavericks. I would like to set up a disk on the old mac >> pro that can be used for TimeMachine backups of the new mac pro. How do I >> do this? >> >> Both macs are connected via gigabit ethernet to the same router. I can >> successfully do screen sharing and file sharing. I thought perhaps I just >> needed to share my TimeMachine disk on the old mac (via the File Sharing >> panel in System Preferences), but when I tried this, I could not see that >> disk when choosing a TimeMachine disk on the new mac. I could only see >> disks that are directly attached to the new mac. >> >> Is it possible to do TimeMachine backups of one mac to a disk on another mac >> via ethernet? If so, what do I need to do? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Gregg _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
