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.