osirisX Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 I already have an iMac and I got myself a MacBook the other day. I was wondering what would be the best way of going about backing both up with Time Machine. Preferably onto the one drive. I do have an AirPort Extreme so I could plug the drive into that. But what is backing up over the network like? And to save creating another thread :p One iTunes library accessible by all machine. I was thinking a HDD connected to the AirPort. Any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Plugging a Time Machine HDD into an AirPort Extreme is basically a Time Capsule. From what I've read, wireless backup is fairly slow, but works just as well as a local HDD with Time Machine installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Baking up over the network is very very slow, but it works just fine. Now for the iTunes question, Trying to have more than one system directly access the library is not a good idea, it can lead inaccurate data and corruption of the library file itself. I suggest simply sharing your library over your network, there are 2 ways to do this with iTunes First way Using your iMac as the system hosting the library The second is to your Home Sharing which is the same except you can download file from the iMac library to the macbook library if you want Home Sharing With iTunes Home Sharing Info and Here is some Info on Music sharing with Airport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osirisX Posted January 25, 2010 Author Share Posted January 25, 2010 I don't mind slow backups. The initial backup would be done locally. As for iTunes I wouldn't have more than one Mac accessing it at a time, so would that eliminate the issue of conflicts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 I don't mind slow backups. The initial backup would be done locally. As for iTunes I wouldn't have more than one Mac accessing it at a time, so would that eliminate the issue of conflicts? I Have tried it before and it always screwed up my song ratings and play counts With network share and Home share there is really no reason to do it that way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted January 25, 2010 Share Posted January 25, 2010 I don't mind slow backups. The initial backup would be done locally. You have to be careful about the local backup. When you use Time Machine with network attached storage, it creates HFS+ disk image files with an extended attribute that has the MAC address of your system. I thought I was being tricky by doing my first backup locally. Then I connected the drive to my Mac Mini Server and my Mac started a whole new backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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