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Alan Mackey

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Original poster
Dec 3, 2011
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My current setup is this:

iMac & MacBook --> TimeCapsule --> USB Disk (attached to the TC).

I would like to be able to 'clone' either the whole content of the TimeCapsule or, if possible, just the TimeMachine sparsebundle images so I can use the rest of the space as a shared resource for my AppleTV2 .

I guess I'm not going to able to create a RAID1 with my TC and the other USB external disk. I haven't tried it, but something tells me that TC's software wouldn't allow it. Am I right?

Also, if I use the 'archive' option of the TC, I will be forced to start from scratch every time.

So my kind of pedestrian solution is alternating manually these two scripts:

tmutil setdestination /Volumes/TimeCapsule
tmutil startbackup


tmutil setdestination /Volumes/Backup
tmutil startbackup

Is there anything, that you know of, capable of maintaining an incremental copy of the sparsebundle TimeMachine images stored on the TimeCapsule?
 
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