So here is the problem that is driving me nuts!! I have a mac mini as my main server computer at home. It has 3 external drives plugged into it. One of them is a time machine plugged in via FireWire 800.
I have all of my other computers auto mounting that disk at startup and using that disk as the time machine disk. The problem is. Whenever time machine backup starts, not only does it go abysmally slow (like it takes 5 hours to back up 100MB), it also dumps the connection after a while and when I come back it says that the connection limit has been reached. I only have 2 computers connecting to it at any time, the limit is 10!! So I have to screen share my Mac Mini, turn off file sharing, then turn it back on so I can resume time machine backup. This is ridiculous and completely ruins the idea of a background time machine process!
Does anyone know how to fix this? Or should I just get a NAS, as I was originally planning on doing (I just figured my already existing Mac Mini should work fine as a server!!)
I have all of my other computers auto mounting that disk at startup and using that disk as the time machine disk. The problem is. Whenever time machine backup starts, not only does it go abysmally slow (like it takes 5 hours to back up 100MB), it also dumps the connection after a while and when I come back it says that the connection limit has been reached. I only have 2 computers connecting to it at any time, the limit is 10!! So I have to screen share my Mac Mini, turn off file sharing, then turn it back on so I can resume time machine backup. This is ridiculous and completely ruins the idea of a background time machine process!
Does anyone know how to fix this? Or should I just get a NAS, as I was originally planning on doing (I just figured my already existing Mac Mini should work fine as a server!!)