I *hope* that I am being a bit dense here, so bare with me.
I want to backup my Macbook using time machine. I currently have two external hard drives, both of which are attached to my iMac. Now my understanding is that I can't easily back up from my Macbook to a hard drive that is attached to another networked mac.
A potential solution is that I could if I had an airport extreme plug a hard drive into that and back up as if it was a network drive. I don't have an airport extreme.
Another solution would be to use the USB to USB-C cable to plug one of the external hard drives into my Macbook. However, I wouldn't be able to charge the rMB at the same time and my current settings are that it shouldn't back up when on battery power. It would also require me to manually plug in my USB drive every time I wanted to back up.
Surely there is a simpler solution than this???
(p.s the 'n' key is starting to drive me crazy - see other thread!)
I want to backup my Macbook using time machine. I currently have two external hard drives, both of which are attached to my iMac. Now my understanding is that I can't easily back up from my Macbook to a hard drive that is attached to another networked mac.
A potential solution is that I could if I had an airport extreme plug a hard drive into that and back up as if it was a network drive. I don't have an airport extreme.
Another solution would be to use the USB to USB-C cable to plug one of the external hard drives into my Macbook. However, I wouldn't be able to charge the rMB at the same time and my current settings are that it shouldn't back up when on battery power. It would also require me to manually plug in my USB drive every time I wanted to back up.
Surely there is a simpler solution than this???
(p.s the 'n' key is starting to drive me crazy - see other thread!)
