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Re:Complete Hacker Tutorial to getting Time Machine over NFS... by ugh on Sunday January 30, 2011 @06:36PM (#2159576)
It’s not really practical for me and I don’t know how it could be practical over wireless LAN but I think it is the perfect backup solution for my parents. I bought a 1TB external drive for them and plugged it into their iMac [0]. It’s just sitting there all the time and they don’t have to worry about it.

All their documents are also in their Dropbox folder, but they have too many photos to make that practical for all their data.

All of this works without them ever having to do anything, they don’t even have to understand what’s happening. It’s perfect.

[0] I actually gifted them my old 250GB external HDD a year ago but it broke a few months ago, so I bought them a new 1TB HDD. The new 1TB drive actually also houses my offsite backup. It’s very infrequently updated (and I don’t use Time Machine, I drag over files I think are important) but better than nothing.

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Re:Complete Hacker Tutorial to getting Time Machine over NFS... by xpaulbettsx on Sunday January 30, 2011 @07:28PM (#2159700)
That's what I think too - it's brilliant for non-tech people, and it's straightforward enough that they can do it.
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