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From: Dan Stephenson on 12 Jul 2008 22:28
On 2008-05-21 19:33:54 -0500, Meerkat1 <student(a)college.edu> said:

> Question: Will the laptop be able to see the external drive connected
> to my Imac wirelessly or will I have to physically connect it?

I have _heard_ Time Machine won't work wireless, unless you buy Apple's
product.

Something to consider, a side point: if you are like me, the local hard
drives on your computers are not nearly enough to store all your photos
and movies and music.

My setup is an external 1TB FW HDD (LaCie d2 Quadra), and I use Apple's
Backup 3 program. I was really please with how easy this tool was to
use. Presently, it daily backs up local drive stuff from my iMac and
MBP to the LaCie, Documents and Personal Settings stuff, and once in a
while, my local iTunes folder.

My all my vast repository stays on the LaCie, and I access it from
there. I used iPhoto Library Manager to pull libraries from the LaCie,
for example.

But how do I protect against the LaCie failing, you ask? With a second
LaCie, with which I weekly backup my primary LaCie backup disk! And I
take THAT LaCie to work.

Something to consider.
--
Dan Stephenson
Photos, movies, panos from the Europe, USA, plus N.Z.:
http://homepage.mac.com/stepheda

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