> On Oct 30, 2014, at 3:28 PM, "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]" > <di...@niehs.nih.gov> wrote: > > Hi Andy, > > Thanks for your quick response. > > I googled my question and found answers similar to yours. I don't mind > spending $20 for OS X server if that is the best way to go, but several > people echoed your concern that it was complicated and messy, so I don't > relish that.
Hi Gregg, If all you're using OS X Server for is Time Machine backups, it's not very complicated (IMHO). You can be up and running in just a few minutes. I use it myself and there's not much to configure. The "defaults write" solution from the Terminal also should work, as I used this myself several years ago. It's not my favorite solution, though; it introduces additional complexity, may break in the future, and in the event you want to do a bare metal restore from within the OS X installer on a crashed Mac, it requires you to drop down to Terminal within the installer to force the backup volume to be recognized and mounted; an OS X Server-based network backup is recognized right out of the box. In any situation where your system is dead, the simpler procedure is almost always the better one. If you happen to be a developer, I believe OS X Server is a free download from the Apple Developer Center. Otherwise, it's $20 well spent. Especially compared to my buying Retrospect Backup for $350 about a decade ago. :P Good luck! -Matt _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
