> On Oct 30, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Matt Penna <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Oct 30, 2014, at 3:28 PM, "Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]" >> <[email protected]> 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.
True, for just Time Machine backups, it shouldn't be that complicated. One other benefit to the OS X Server option is the very nice software update caching feature. Once you get OS X Server running, you can enable the caching server. It's awesome. ANY software update from Apple, be it system updates, application updates, iOS updates, iOS app updates, etc., will be cached. Not right away, but here's how it works. The first time any device on your network downloads something cacheable, it will then be cached. Any other devices that need the same update will automatically pull from the caching server. -Andy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
