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haravikk

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May 1, 2005
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Okay, I have an older PC that one of my family uses mainly for familiarity but also for doing a course that focuses on Microsoft Office. It means that work is being done on it that it would be nice to back up, but which I don't have a spare drive to back-up onto.

However, my Mac has plenty of drive space as I've got 3tb internal and the same again in an external (time machine) volume. So what I'd like to do is set-up the Windows XP PC to somehow back-up onto my Mac whenever both machines are switched on.

Is there an easy way to do this? I was thinking I could somehow set-up my Mac to just grab files from the PC when it's on, using my administrator account for the PC to access the folder(s) that need backing up, and throw them in a folder so Time Machine on my Mac will kick in and provide its lovely recovery support. Being able to grab only the changed files would be a bonus, as the PC is pretty old, so not the speediest machine in the world =)
Thus far however I've yet to have any luck in getting the PC to recognise my Mac or vice-versa. Ideally though it'd be the PC doing the sharing, as I don't really want to enable Windows sharing on my Mac.

Anyone got something like this set-up, or have any ideas on how I'd go about doing this? A list of simple steps would be great, even though I am a programmer networking is really the bane of my existence, and the Windows XP controls for it are about as friendly as a rabid wolf.
 
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