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Mar 25, 08 - 10:59 am Comment from: Wandering joe

You could ask the same questions to a roomful of PC users too, and get basically the same response

Mar 25, 08 - 11:02 am Comment from: TowerTone

I have no problem backing up unless, of course, I'm chewing gum....

Mar 25, 08 - 11:18 am Comment from: HotinPlaya

I do not have a Time capsule, but with the new update to my AirPort Extreme, I set up my wife's macBook to wireless back up with Time machine with the destination my hard Drive on my iMac! Time machine is neat!

Mar 25, 08 - 11:51 am Comment from: Randian

@Wandering Joe

" . . . the same response" even from Vista users? Color me very, very, very skeptical of that claim!

When I get backed up, I use Ex-Lax.

Just my $0.02

uhhh whats the difference between time capsule and time machine? I have time machine set up on my Mac... doesn't that save my documents in case my computer crashes???

Mar 25, 08 - 12:13 pm Comment from: silverhawk

The article mentions a "server-grade hard drive." Are they that much better than a regular old fashioned computer hard drive?

Mar 25, 08 - 12:16 pm Comment from: silverhawk

Time Capsule is the machine. Time Machine is the software. You'd think it would be just opposite.

Mar 25, 08 - 12:33 pm Comment from: Mr. Reeee

HotInPlaya...

You're asking for trouble backing up to the boot drive in your iMac. What happens if IT goes:?

Ideally, you should get an external drive that's DEDICATED for Time Machine backups. You could partition it and backup BOTH your iMac and your wife's MacBook.

Use a FireWire drive, preferably FireWire 800, not USB 2. USB 2 is best for mice and keyboards NOT sustained reads/writes.

I got this GREAT LaCie 2big Triple (2-disk RAID) drive for my Time Machine backups. With FireWire 800 I NEVER notice when it backs up, except for the sound of the drive diligently grinding away.

http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10967

It could at least beep when it backs up just to be extra careful.

Mar 25, 08 - 01:11 pm Comment from: DLMeyer

My wife has no idea if her backups are running or not, or if they are any good. Two stories below her and her iMac, I hear the drive start to click and know the backup is happening. AND that it's "good". If "something happens" that takes out both the second floor and the basement, I expect we'll have bigger worries than how to recover her files.
silverhawk, can't agree. If only one of them gets to be called "Time Capsule", it ought to be the hardware. "Machines" do things, "Capsules" just need to 'contain things'. I'm beginning to think it was a mistake to get the 1/2-TB version ... it doesn't recognize my NAS disk either when attached via Ethernet or USB. Disappointing.
Dave

Mar 25, 08 - 01:26 pm Comment from: Wandering joe

@Randian, I meant these responses 'I don't know how'; 'It's too much hassle'; or "'I don't have the proper hardware and/or software,'"

Joe

Mar 25, 08 - 02:47 pm Comment from: HotinPlaya

@Mr. Reeee
could you email me
I backed up my wife's MacBook, just to try out Time Machine, everything on her macBook important is also on my iMac and backed up to a Lacie 500GB Mini Hub.

I need more storage and have been looking at LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive 1TB, and would like to discuss options

Mar 25, 08 - 03:51 pm Comment from: NCIceman

I wish I was having the ease of use with Time Capsule others are reporting. Moving my previous multi-gigabyte backups to it is taking quite a while. NOT being able to migrate my existing time machine archive is also annoying. It's a great product, I just don't think the connectivity and software behavior is quite up to Apple's normal par yet.

Ray:

Are ALL your comments only worth 2¢?

My question is the same as Silverhawk's re: server grade. Presumably a laptop HD is not server grade, but they seem to last 4-5 years easy with quite frequent use... so how much better is the server grade? Are we talking 10% or 100% or more?