[X4U] How do I back up _from_ an AirDisk?

[Neil Laubenthal]

Time Machine will only backup local drives . . . so what I suggested  
will still work . . . use Sync or RsyncXor whatever to backup the  
AirDisk to the Mac . . . then since it's now a local copy Time Machine  
will back it up for you. Sort of a kludge I guess . . . but until/if  
we get a little more control over Time Machine it's about the best  
you'll be able to do.

The Sync or RSyncX or whatever will just do an incremental backup of  
the AirDisk . . .which should then get properly backed up with  
versions and all the normal Time Machine stuff.


On Jan 4, 2009, at 16:52, Andrew Lynch wrote:

> Hi Neil,
>  Thanks for the response, but what I really want is to take  
> advantage of the incremental backup/space management features of  
> TimeMachine.  What I want is for Time Machine to recognize the  
> mounted drive (I already have it in my login items for iTunes to  
> access) and do the backup for me, along with the locally installed  
> drives it already backs up.
>
> Cheers,
>   Drew
>
> On Jan 4, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote:
>
>> Sure . . . just mount the AirDisk on one of the Macs . . . then  
>> drag it into the Login Items pane so it will reconnect  
>> automatically at startup. Then set up something to backup the  
>> Airdisk to the local Mac HD . . . there are a whole bunch of  
>> utilities that will do this for either free or pay depending on  
>> what you have. RSyncX will do it for free . . . but there's also  
>> Deja Vu and a bunch of other folder synchronizing apps available.
>>