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My New Wireless Solution
0Welcome to my Apple equipped home, and let me introduce you to my latest device: Time Capsule.
Time Capsule is first of all a wireless accesspoint, but also a 500 GB Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. Needless to say, it works seamlessly with MacOS X 10.5′s inbuilt backup solution Time Machine. But it is not restricted to working with only 10.5 or MacOS X, and is of course also working with Windows and Linux. But having said that, Time Capsule only comes with installation and administration software for MacOS X and Windows. The setup takes a matter of minutes, and once it’s up and running, its disk drive is visible to any computer on the network.
As you can see from this first screenshot, Apple has done it real easy to set Time Capsule up for you and they have also made some sensible security choices for you: WEP is not an option. As this device is not for the enterprise, only WPA/WPA 2 Personal is available as wireless security.
Are you making backups with Apple’s Backup?
0I just came over an article written by a fustrated Mac user, that shows how bad Apple’s backup software for Mac-user really is and is another reason for people to not buy Apple’s .Mac subscriptions and trust them your data.
I found that Backup 3.1 would only restore a certain number of the files early in the backup set before it would crash. Any attempt to restore other files from the set resulted only in a crash.
That basically means that you have to find the latest version of your files. Easy if you just have a few MBs of data, but not if you have a GB or more.