After the fiasco of our old laptop croaking and Lynnette losing a ton of stuff, I made a promise that I would do my best to come up with a solution.
Leave it to Apple, to come up with one of the easiest solutions possible (and in turn make my job easy).
View at Apple.com: Time Capsule
While certainly not cheap ($299 500GB/$499 1TB), Time Capsule is a tremendous leap forward in the ease of use factor. I had it operation in a matter of minutes, and our MacBook Pro is currently in the process of shoving files over.
Couple things to note:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard only for automated backups using Time Machine
- Can function as an network attached storage (NAS) device for any platform
- If you have any wireless device, that isn’t 802.11n capable, it automatically downgrades itself (bummer)
Any questions?
Update on the Time Capsule. Seems I missed the fine print on just how long it takes to perform the initial backup - the darn thing has been running since last night and is just barely half way (14.96GB from 28.49GB)
I hope this gets better once the initial job is done. Realizing our MacBook Pro has an older Airport card, it’s only capable of 54Mbs. - no where near the full bandwidth of the Time Capsule.
There was a recent update, that may help, but I hesitate to stop the current process since it’s been running for so long.
Links:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=454462
http://forums.macworld.com/thread/99195;jsessionid=8E9D795994B541901116D1D9247288C6?tstart=0
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/timecapsuleandairportbasestation80211nfirmware731.html