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Backup tool for Mac OS:X

Backup tool for Mac OS X. Allows to back things up to an external hard drive or an Apple Time Capsule.

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Add multiple Time Machine shares in Mac OS X Lion server?

Under Mac OS X 10.6 Server (and perhaps older), when setting up a share I had an option I could check to make the share available as a TimeMachine backup location. By doing so, I could have multiple separate TM backup destinations on a single…
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Multiple OS X clients - Time Machine backup to NAS?

We have about 15 OS X desktop machines - mainly iMacs, some MacBooks and Mac Pros. Each user has a local account on the machine, and a portable USB disk for a Time Machine backup. I want to coordinate the backups to a central NAS, and I'm thinking…
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Offsite Time Machine Backups

I have Time Machine working nicely, making snappshotted backups on a regular basis. The backed up files are easily & quickly available. I would like to make an offsite copy of these backups for ultimate safety. I already have a webhost (Dreamhost)…
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What does Time Machine "server data" mean?

I see in an Apple manual that "Time Machine backup of server data isn’t supported for an advanced server" but I'm not clear on how to interpret "server data." Does it refer to the entire boot volume for the server... or certain folders... all…
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Samba4 issues with Time Machine: cannot create new backup on Samba share

Note: originally posted on StackExchange. I'm not sure which location is more appropriate, my apologies if the duplication causes issues. TL;DR: Time Machine cannot create a new backup on my shared drive, but can add to an existing backup. I'm…
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Restore data only from Time Machine

I'll have following scenario: 1, I use Time Machine to backup my data from my Mac, I excluded Applications folder and some others, so I really backup data only 2, I'll buy new Snow Leopard 3, I want totally clean install, so when installing Snow…
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VPN/AFP server for centralized TimeMachine backups

I am a sysadmin for a small group of about 7 people who prefer Apple machines for their work. These machines are currently either a) not backed up at all, or b) backed up using Retrospect(Which I'm not very fond of). I don't really have the budget…
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Can Time Machine send an email notification when it's completed?

I'm running a number of servers, all with Time Machine Capsules configured on them. The thing is, these are headless servers, and I would like to know if it is possible to have an email sent out to me, whenever a backup is successful, or even…
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Users in the field and Time Machine

We have several users in the field with MacBooks. Because they're not always on the network, they save files locally to their notebooks. Normally I back things up by making quick copies to other media, but with the Macs they have the option to run…
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Time Machine: Bulk setting Spotlight attributes failed

I recently had a drive fail in a laptop and after replacing it and restoring a Time Machine backup onto it, any new backups to the same Time Machine backup get this error: May 24 02:10:00 Foobar /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[9605]: Bulk…
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Remotely sync Time Machine drives

I have an Xserve that runs Time Machine to a local terabyte drive. I also connected my external terabyte drive for a time period and had Time Machine use it to establish the seed data. I plan to take my drive back home with me (out of state) and…
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File-server backup with multiple file-versions

Possible Duplicate: Network-Backup-Software with file versioning and web-interface Dear All, I'm using a single Windows Server 2008 to share data between my WinXP and MacOSX - computers. There is one iSCSI - storage attached, which hold the…
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OSX high sierra time machine server

since updating (fresh install!) to OSX high sierra the server app does not offer the time machine settings anymore. The changelog somehow reflects that, but refers to the system settings --> sharing as a replacement for it. However, I was unable to…
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Backing up an SVN repository on Mac OS X

I am trying to automate backing up an SVN server on my G5 running 10.5 Leopard. I already have Time Machine set up. I figured it would be best to exclude the SVN repository from Time Machine, and manually make a backup of the repository (perhaps…
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2012R2 Hyper-v host CentOS7 guest slow network speed over external network

I have a Hyper-V host on win2012R2 (Version 6.3.9600) with two gigabit network adapters, one of them connecting to a gigabit router (the another one is currently out of use because lack of a gigabit switch near to the server yet). I'm running a…
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