PowerServer G5

[Gamer9430]

So I finally found a use for my loyal G5. Besides being used as a normal machine, I tossed Leopard server on it and it's now backing up every single Mac i own that's running OS X and connected to the network. As of writing, I have 7 machines being backed up all at the same time.

Honestly, I think I broke a record for having something like this going on right now. LOL It's my TiBook, iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro (not pictured), the G5 itself, 12in PowerBook, and 17in PowerBook all at once.

 

[headsh0t95]

Nice project! Only thing is that I hope you used new drives for storing the backups as the old ones are likely to fail.

 

[gavinstubbs09]

If I didn't already have my HP ProLiant DL360 G5 (yeah it's called that but has Xeons in it... actually the ones I pulled from my old MacPro1,1 ) set up with Windows Server 2012 R2 and if I didn't have 600GB worth of files on it I would have threw LeoServer on my G5 and used that.

My fix though is to make a sparseimage and have it shared, then on my Macs it automatically mounts on bootup and backs up over the network.

 

[MultiFinder17]

Having a Time Machine server is incredibly handy - I have my little home server (a Mac mini) set up to serve up one of the drives attached to it for Time Machine, and I have all of my notebooks backing up to that.

 

[996085]

If I didn't already have my HP ProLiant DL360 G5 (yeah it's called that but has Xeons in it... actually the ones I pulled from my old MacPro1,1 ) set up with Windows Server 2012 R2 and if I didn't have 600GB worth of files on it I would have threw LeoServer on my G5 and used that.

My fix though is to make a sparseimage and have it shared, then on my Macs it automatically mounts on bootup and backs up over the network.

The G5 is a reference to the generation of the DL360. Yours would be the fifth generation.

 

[redhatcode29]

Nice.

So I finally found a use for my loyal G5. Besides being used as a normal machine, I tossed Leopard server on it and it's now backing up every single Mac i own that's running OS X and connected to the network. As of writing, I have 7 machines being backed up all at the same time.

Honestly, I think I broke a record for having something like this going on right now. LOL It's my TiBook, iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro (not pictured), the G5 itself, 12in PowerBook, and 17in PowerBook all at once.