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Time Machine for 2 backups

GerritV

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When at work, I have my MBP set up to use TimeMachine for a backup to an external drive.
When I take my MBP home, there's a TimeCapsule that I can connect to via WiFi. Is there a way to have my MBP backup to this TimeCapsule as well, using the TimeMachine system pref?
 
Weaselboy

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Not by default with Lion, but you can use this hint to do what you want.

If you want to wait a few more days for Mountain Lion, it does offer multiple Time Machine backups without any hacking around.
 
GerritV

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Thanks for the answer!
It makes me want ML even more :D
 
GerritV

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I brought my office MBP home over the weekend to have it make a backup to my TimeCapsule.
350 GB took almost forever (about 30 hours!) and I didn't use the MBP during the process. Is this normal?
Second question: on the Timecapsule, I'm now looking at a sort of diskimage file, definitely different from my regular TimeMachibe backup on an external FWdrive. No folder structure, unless I doubleclick the dmg. Is that how things are supposed to work?
 
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GerritV said:
I brought my office MBP home over the weekend to have it make a backup to my TimeCapsule.
350 GB took almost forever (about 30 hours!) and I didn't use the MBP during the process. Is this normal?
Second question: on the Timecapsule, I'm now looking at a sort of diskimage file, definitely different from my regular TimeMachibe backup on an external FWdrive. No folder structure, unless I doubleclick the dmg. Is that how things are supposed to work?
Click to expand...

How were you connected for the 350GB backup? With mine on a wired gigabit connection about 60GB total takes about three or four hours.

Yes... a Time Capsule backup is to a networked drive and uses a sparse bundle disk image format like you noticed. That is normal and by design.
 
GerritV

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Weaselboy said:
How were you connected for the 350GB backup? With mine on a wired gigabit connection about 60GB total takes about three or four hours.

Yes... a Time Capsule backup is to a networked drive and uses a sparse bundle disk image format like you noticed. That is normal and by design.
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Thanks for answering!
And sorry, I should have mentioned: my connection was wireless.
 
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