Hi, Thank you to everyone who offered me help with this problem. I think that things are now working.
There were at least 2 things that I was probably doing wrong: 1. My old mac pro has 4 internal hard drives and one of them was already set up as a TimeMachine disk to back up the other internal drives, but I had never done any network backups. I had simply tried pointing TimeMachine on the new mac pro to this existing TimeMachine disk (after sharing it). A few minutes ago, I decided to erase a different disk and make it (temporarily) the TimeMachine disk on the old mac pro. 2. I had not previously mounted the old mac pro's TimeMachine disk in the Finder of the new mac pro, at least not at the same time that I was trying to set up TimeMachine backups. After doing both of these things, the old mac pro's TimeMachine disk showed up as a possible target for Time Machine on the new mac pro. I chose it and tried doing a quick backup, which seemed to work. I then unmounted the old mac pro's TimeMachine disk in the Finder of the new mac pro and did a second quick backup. That also seemed to work. Thanks to all of you who offered help, and especially those who mentioned these steps that I had not tried earlier. I still may end up buying OS X Server, but for now I think this will work without it. Gregg On Oct 30, 2014, at 4:43 PM, Andy Ringsmuth <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 30, 2014, at 3:18 PM, Neil Laubenthal <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Oct 30, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Andy Ringsmuth <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> So…I don’t need to download the updates from the machine running Server? I >> can download them on my laptop and they get automatically posted up to the >> Server? What do I need to do for my other machines and iDevices to find the >> updates once they are on the caching Server. >> >> This will be a great boon to me…we live full time in an RV and bandwidth is >> both limited and expensive…so downloading once would be great. I already do >> this manually for OS X updates but being able to do it for iOS would be >> great. > > All you need to do for your other devices to find the updates is run Software > Update. That's it. Literally. > > http://help.apple.com/serverapp/mac/4.0/#/apd74DDE89F-08D2-4E0A-A5CD-155E345EFB83 > > I should stipulate that this is the Caching service. There used to be a > Software Update service in older versions of OS X Server (referenced in the > above documentation) that was less flexible and more complicated. > > -Andy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
