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<blockquote data-quote="MacsWork" data-source="post: 1260994" data-attributes="member: 11094"><p>All you said was that the 500GB drive was filled in 8-9 months backing up twice a week. </p><p></p><p>I simply said that the backup drive used by Time Machine is supposed to fill up.</p><p></p><p>You also know that your eMac needs Leopard Server to use Time Machine services right?</p><p></p><p>When you start to get creative with a backup strategy such as you are, a couple of things are going to happen.</p><p></p><p>One, you might get offended when someone tells you you're doing something outside the box. Personally I don't care what you plan on doing with an eMac, ubuntu, a rubber band and a bent paper clip. </p><p></p><p>Two, what you want to do is not being done by anyone else and therefore might be the reason recommendations are scarce. There once was a time when I did things because I could. Tried to breath life into old technology, tried to tweak things to have them perform something they weren't meant to.</p><p></p><p>That said, I do not know of a way to get Leopard client to work as a Time Machine server across a network. I do know that for a time I did this with my old PowerMac G4 sawtooth with a 1Ghz Sonnet upgrade CPU and 1Gb RAM running Leopard server. When Snow Leopard came out I bought a Mini and loaded Snow Leopard server and now it runs my Time Machine services. Later this month I will upgrade all my Macs (except one that doesn't spec out) to Lion and continue using Time Machine services from the Mini.</p><p></p><p>So I would recommend running Time Machine services. They do work. I have never had to do a full system restore but have restored several files and data.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacsWork, post: 1260994, member: 11094"] All you said was that the 500GB drive was filled in 8-9 months backing up twice a week. I simply said that the backup drive used by Time Machine is supposed to fill up. You also know that your eMac needs Leopard Server to use Time Machine services right? When you start to get creative with a backup strategy such as you are, a couple of things are going to happen. One, you might get offended when someone tells you you're doing something outside the box. Personally I don't care what you plan on doing with an eMac, ubuntu, a rubber band and a bent paper clip. Two, what you want to do is not being done by anyone else and therefore might be the reason recommendations are scarce. There once was a time when I did things because I could. Tried to breath life into old technology, tried to tweak things to have them perform something they weren't meant to. That said, I do not know of a way to get Leopard client to work as a Time Machine server across a network. I do know that for a time I did this with my old PowerMac G4 sawtooth with a 1Ghz Sonnet upgrade CPU and 1Gb RAM running Leopard server. When Snow Leopard came out I bought a Mini and loaded Snow Leopard server and now it runs my Time Machine services. Later this month I will upgrade all my Macs (except one that doesn't spec out) to Lion and continue using Time Machine services from the Mini. So I would recommend running Time Machine services. They do work. I have never had to do a full system restore but have restored several files and data. [/QUOTE]
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