Mac Backup with a Homemade Time Capsule

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After losing some fairly important accounting files recently, I realised that my backup strategy is quite flawed. Although I take a weekly bootable backup of my Mac, that doesn’t really help when I deleted the file I want a few weeks ago. To do that, I would need to make use of Apple’s built-in Time Machine functionality, but I don’t really want another drive attached on my beautiful zen desk space – and I’m certainly going to pay Apple £200-300 for a glorified router with built-in hard drive.

No, instead I’d like to just throw another 1TB into my home server and be done with it. Unfortunately, this isn’t entirely supported by Apple, so it’s going to need a little hacking together.

We are then guided on how to set this all up, with the required configuration for both the Mac and Windows Home Server.

How to backup your Mac with a homemade Time Capsule, is available to read here.

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