Hi, I've run into a few questions about this task, with differing opinions on the idea, so I thought I'd ask here...
I have multiple Macs with various OS's all accessing a single Airport Extreme as the networking device and internet source - using both the Ethernet and wireless connection.
I would like to put a 1TB hard drive on the USB port of the Extreme as a central Backup HD for all of the computers that can read/write to it. The particular one I have, a LaCie, indicates a minimum OS requirement of 10.5.
I have several machines running 10.6/10.5. Others are running 10.4, another is 10.3, and still two more are OS 9, and OS 8.6 .
Putting aside the obvious question of why I have so many different OS's -- and yes I can migrate all but a couple to 10.5+...
is there any reason i should not be able to use this HD to serve as backup for all machines on the network regardless of each one's respective OS version?
I haven't even formatted the HD yet but beyond that the question is, is there any reason/need to partition the 1TB HD or could this simply be a matter of dragging each computer's respective HD volume(s) onto the 1TB HD directly?
If that is doable - would I then be able to use "Time Machine" on the OSX volumes...and, say.. Super Duper or CC Cloner for the backup of the older (OS 8.6/9) OS machines' volumes?
I'm trying to avoid going to a fee-based backup service like "Carbonite" etc. and do this myself if there's a simple way to accomplish the goal on my own...
Thanks a ton for any advice on the best strategy for all this (and apology in advance if this belongs in a different topic area : )
Mike
I have multiple Macs with various OS's all accessing a single Airport Extreme as the networking device and internet source - using both the Ethernet and wireless connection.
I would like to put a 1TB hard drive on the USB port of the Extreme as a central Backup HD for all of the computers that can read/write to it. The particular one I have, a LaCie, indicates a minimum OS requirement of 10.5.
I have several machines running 10.6/10.5. Others are running 10.4, another is 10.3, and still two more are OS 9, and OS 8.6 .
Putting aside the obvious question of why I have so many different OS's -- and yes I can migrate all but a couple to 10.5+...
is there any reason i should not be able to use this HD to serve as backup for all machines on the network regardless of each one's respective OS version?
I haven't even formatted the HD yet but beyond that the question is, is there any reason/need to partition the 1TB HD or could this simply be a matter of dragging each computer's respective HD volume(s) onto the 1TB HD directly?
If that is doable - would I then be able to use "Time Machine" on the OSX volumes...and, say.. Super Duper or CC Cloner for the backup of the older (OS 8.6/9) OS machines' volumes?
I'm trying to avoid going to a fee-based backup service like "Carbonite" etc. and do this myself if there's a simple way to accomplish the goal on my own...
Thanks a ton for any advice on the best strategy for all this (and apology in advance if this belongs in a different topic area : )
Mike
