I've had pretty good luck with time machine over wifi. I have an old Mac
G4 running in the basement with a 500GB drive for time machine backups
wired to my wifi router. I then have sharing turned on and mounted that
drive on a laptop and told time machine to use it. It seems to back up a
lot of the time since I'm back on 802.11G since my Airport died. It was
much more reasonable with 802.11N. In other words, if you're patient you
might be fine just doing time machine backups over wifi and will have no
need of a frankencable setup.
CB
On 11/7/12 12:31 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
You are correct in most accounts. Time Machine will continue from
where it left off if all things are equal, meaning that you're using
the same Backup location and configuration as well as connection
method. Yes it should be much quicker on future backups.
With respect to the Internet connection being lost when the ethernet
cable is connected. Try going to the System Prefs, in the Network
pane. In the Actions pop-up menu, choose "Set Service Order" and then
drag the WIFI above the Ethernet service. This should allow the WIFI
to maintain its Internet connection but still allow connectivity
between computers with the ethernet cable. Note that "should" is my
favourite word in computer-land so I'm not promising that it will work
perfectly. I do, in my world, use multiple network services but these
are usually in a Server environment so your machine may behave
differently.
Good luck.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2012-11-06, at 12:50 PM, Ioana Gandrabur <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks for your detailed response.
Like you said, it opens up more questiones than it answers.
I have a sighted husband that could help with non VO friendly
solutions. Could you mind telling me what those might be?
Also, I am just thinking letting timemachine do its thing although it
takes forever. I am thinking that for subsequent bakcups it would be
faster since there is less to update. Do any of you know if
timemachine can continue backup where it left off if the backup was
interrupted? IN this case am I risking corrupted data?
hanks very much!
Ioana
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On Nov 5, 2012, at 9:08 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
Migration Assistant is a different kettle of fish. Although, the
basic answer is yes, sort of. Some complications will arise though
if you are planning to have the units tethered more or less
permanently. Normally, the ethernet connection is a higher priority
than the wireless one thus once the connection is made, you will
lose your IP address and most likely lose your Internet connection.
There are workarounds for this sort of thing but they are not
typically VO friendly.
The connection speed should be quicker than WIFI and depending on
your router, could be slightly quicker then going through it as well.
The problem I see with your design though is that, unless your other
Mac is set up as a server, using it for Time Machine backups is not
as easy as it appears. My suggestions for this would be to either
have some sort of network access storage either through your
existing router (if it supports it), to use a Time Capsule or
Airport Extreme with external HD, or convert your other Mac to a
MacOS Server. Financially, if your router supports NAS, that's the
least expensive route, purchasing the MacOS Server is only $20 and
the most expensive would be the Airport Extreme or Time Capsule
route. Just because life is never easy, the less expensive routes
are not necessarily the easiest methods to configure.
Sorry, probably just gave you more questions than answers.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2012-11-05, at 1:40 PM, Ioana Gandrabur <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
Just wondering if it is possible to connect 2 macs on a wired
network directly with a cable. THe router is very far away from
both to be close to the dsl plug on the wall. I thought that just
connecting with a cable should do it since I did this with pc for
migration assistent.
If it is indeed possible, how do I make sure the connection works
and is it slower than passing through a router?
Thanks for your help.
Best,
Ioana
Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com
<http://www.ioanagandrabur.com/> on iTunes and most online stores.
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